Two companies, a director and a subcontractor have been fined a total of £130,000 for health and safety failings, after a construction worker suffered serious burns following an electric shock from an...
Occupational Health
Breakthrough technology from Eaton enables high-pressure hydraulic hose assemblies to report their own imminent failure, via embedded real-time monitoring.
Hydraulic Components/Equipment
German automation firm R&W Industrieautomation has developed a laser-based system for measuring the height of concrete blocks during production.
Proximity Sensing
Engineers working on Glencorse water treatment works, for Scottish Water, have installed over 400 top of the range electrical enclosures and junction boxes from Hensel.
Electrical Distribution
Plant engineers using pneumatic cylinders from the likes of Norgren, SMC, Festo, Camozzi, Bosch Rexroth and Parker can now get them repaired, using Thorite's cylinder seal kit overhaul and repair...
Pneumatic Components/Equipment
Italian insulation materials manufacturer Elantas Deatech reports significant savings in steam consumption at its site in Ascoli Piceno, following installation of Gem steam traps.
Steam Traps
Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies is adding a remote service to its Internet-based maintenance and technical support programme for production plants.
Maintenance Management Systems
Nine partners from seven countries have joined in an innovative project to show that ethanol, biodiesel and other bio-products can be produced from algae on a large scale.
Biofuel
Electric actuators manufacturer Auma has launched a single-mode fibre optic interface that now covers up to 15km between field devices.
valve actuators
Romanian energy firm SC Complexul Energetic Rovinari has selected Emerson Process Management's CSI 6500 machinery health monitor for predictive health monitoring of critical machinery at its Rovinari...
Predictive Maintenance
Engineering Steel Belgium (ESB) reports saving €45,000 per annum with three cooling pumps on one of its electrical steel furnaces, since installing WEG W22 132kW, IE2 high efficiency motors,...
Variable Speed Drives
An unnamed animal feed manufacturer in Merseyside has seen plant electricity usage fall from £94,000 per year to £77,000, so lowering the cost per tonne of its end product by 18%.
Variable Speed Drives