Since installing fixed and regulated speed compressors, from CompAir, at its plant in Sablé sur Sarthe, France, food processor Société Marie says it has been experiencing annual electricity savings of...
Compressors
LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations) should be retained in its present form, according to LEEA (the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association).
Lifting Equipment
H-A-R-T (Height & Rescue Training), the height safety training division of Checkmate Lifting and Safety, has been awarded Accredited Training Company status by LEEA.
Continuing Professional Development
ETI (the Energy Technologies Institute public-private partnership) is seeking partners for a £13 million project to help design and build a next generation energy – electricity and heat – from waste...
Recycling
The third edition of EEMUA Publication 194 'Guidelines for materials selection and corrosion control for subsea oil and gas production equipment' – just published – reflects significant developments...
Oil & Gas
Plant asset monitoring technology firm Kittiwake used this week's Maintec exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham, to launch a handheld device claimed to provide instant indication of machinery condition.
Bearings
Improvements to Siemens Simatic PCS7 v8 process management system include better data exchange for planning and additional tools, such as its advanced process library and process historian.
Process Management Systems
Global manufacturing giant Siemens will debate how boosting investment in the UK and Ireland's industrial infrastructure could help UK manufacturers overcome core challenges in skills and productivity...
PLCs
Emerson's Rosemount Analytical 1066 Series two-wire liquid transmitters are claimed to offer the broadest coverage of process parameters yet.
pH Measurement
ABB has published a new white paper, aimed at explaining how automatic industrial PID (proportional, integral, derivative) controllers can be used to optimise virtually any process.
PID Control
Sulzer Dowding & Mills is now supplying Loher motors from Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies.
Electric Motors AC
Following yesterday's budget announcement by the Chancellor, reactions from manufactures and manufacturing organisations have been varied.
Engineering Competence/Skills