Engineering firm AV Technology has launched a hand-held oil condition checker that it claims will revolutionise the way plant engineers manage and monitor machinery lubrication.
Lubricants/Greases
With current UK market conditions now favouring anaerobic digestion plants for sustainable power, BCI Process has brought an advanced and efficient German design of tank system to the UK.
Biomass Plant
A private sector initiative aimed at boosting British engineering has been launched by LEGO Education, the Helsington Foundation and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Apprenticeships
Pro-Spray Automotive Finishes is reporting improved production efficiency and product consistency since adopting Elga Process Water's proposal for an on-site demineralisation plant on its latest...
Water Treatment
A £1 million funding competition aimed at helping to develop robotics and autonomous systems technology in the UK has been launched by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.
Robots
The Technology Strategy Board has made 'great progress' in establishing a network of 'world leading technology and innovation centres' – the Catapults – according to its chief executive Iain Gray,...
Machine Controls
Emerson Network Power's industrial uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) now generate self-diagnostic data for parent company Emerson's AMS Suite asset management system.
Maintenance Management Systems
Bathgate Slate Technologies in Staffordshire has been fined £4,000 with costs of £5,464 after a worker sustained hand injuries and lost the tip of a finger using a poorly-guarded machine.
Manual Handling
Cambridge instrument firm Prior Scientific Instruments and a health and safety consultant have both been fined for failing to protect employees from hazardous chemicals.
Gas Detection
Pyroban has launched a new gas detection system aimed at mobile industrial vehicles used in 'enhanced safety areas'.
Gas Detection
A growing number of firms, manufacturers and agricultural businesses are signing up to a scheme that allows them to install biomass technology for nothing, while benefiting from reduced energy costs...
Boilers
Schaeffler UK's automotive component manufacturing plant in South Wales scooped top prize at this year's Wales Quality Award 2012, for the plant's achievements in manufacturing quality.
Planned Maintenance