It was a clean sweep for PEME at Maintec 2013, as technicians from the engineering company won the top slots at the inaugural Maintec Maintenance Professional Awards.
Apprenticeships
Enomondo – a partnership between Caviro Distillerie and Herambiente – in Faenza, Italy, is reporting improved visibility into its biomass power plant, leading to a 5% increase in operational...
Process Transmitters
Maintec (this week's specialist maintenance exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham) saw the launch of the world's first intrinsically safe radiometric thermal imaging camera, for use directly in classified...
ATEX
Four new research centres, aimed at developing new manufacturing methods involving electronics, lasers, medical devices and food production, have been awarded £21 million EPSRC (Engineering and...
Plant Engineering
Siemens says it is tackling the skills gap by launching UK's first engineering education and careers portal for schools, with the Cabinet Office, Department of Education and the Department for...
Apprenticeships
Cambridge Consultants has launched an innovative, cost-effective device for accurately measuring liquid levels that requires no calibration.
Level Measurement
The Profibus Group has developed a free single-day seminar to address safety and security issues arising from the use of digital communications in automated manufacturing applications.
Fieldbus
Techcomp has acquired the majority holding of shares in lifetime fluorescence spectrometers, lasers and gas sensors manufacturer Edinburgh Instruments.
Instrumentation
BMW Group is buying 2,400 robots from ABB for delivery over the next three years.
Robots
Mahle Engine Systems UK has been fined £8,000 after an agency worker was injured when his hand became trapped in unguarded machinery.
Machine Safety/Protection
Specialist IECEx machines repairer Quartzelec is reminding plant engineers of the importance of using IECEx certified service workshops to carry out repairs on Ex (explosive environment) machines.
ATEX
The Royal Mint is reporting success with its new effluent treatment plant and supporting instrumentation, which are enabling the Llanstrisant, South Wales, plant to discharge 100% effluent into the...
pH Measurement