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Keeping the ball rolling

Chris Johnson, managing director of specialist bearing supplier SMB Bearings, explores how to keep the ball rolling when standard bearing lubrication lets you down.

Lubricants/Greases
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Miniature encoders help advance surgical robot capabilities

The demands of robotic surgery, one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of medical technology, are encouraging motion control engineers to push the boundaries of their discipline as...

Robots
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Classic luxury yacht refitted using Mitsubishi Electric drives

When the prestigious luxury yacht Sanssouci Star was refurbished to retain its classic feel but operate with super-modern high-tech equipment, no compromise was made on component quality.

Drives
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Custom enclosures for dairy farming hygiene applications

Ambic Equipment is using customised enclosures from Spelsberg UK to house its latest dosing and dilutions system, the EasiDoser.

Plant Operations
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Manufacturers can gain competitive advantage by implementing accreditation

Ametek Land reveals in its latest engineering brief how manufacturers can use effective calibration and certification accreditation to gain a competitive advantage.

Temperature measurement
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Survey reveals major training gaps in UK industry

A survey commissioned by drive and control specialist Bosch Rexroth has revealed worrying gaps in training provision and readiness for Industry 4.0 in the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors.

Workplace Training
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Engineering industry is home to some of the nation’s worst bosses

New data from the UK job site, CV-Library , has found that 90.3 per cent of people working in the engineering industry have had a bad leader, one of the highest of any other sector in the UK.

Plant Operations
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A new generation of brakes for demanding machine applications

Warner Electric has built more than 90 years of design and manufacturing experience into its latest Gen4 range of spring operated, electromagnetically released brakes.

Plant Operations
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Thorough Examination not enough in hazardous applications

Safety company Pyroban is reminding explosion protected forklift users of the need to conduct Ex- annual safety audits (Ex-ASAs) alongside a Thorough Examination to ensure legal compliance and reduce...

ATEX
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Parker adds smart IO-Link connectivity to its valve portfolio

Parker Hannifin has added smart connectivity of its pneumatic valve islands to machine controllers by introducing new IO-Link modules that can be quickly integrated with existing Parker valve ranges.

control valves
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Merford keeps the peace at greenhouse site

Thanks to noise insulating housing from Merford Noise Control, an Isle of Wight salad grower’s four 6.5+ megawatt gas combined heat and power (CHP) units are not disturbing the peace.

Combined Heat & Power
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The importance of best practice in hydraulic fluid selection

Bosch Rexroth has restated the importance of choosing correctly rated hydraulic fluids to optimise performance and safety in mobile applications.

Lubricants/Greases