Travis Perkins has partnered with the University of Salford Manchester’s specialist acoustics team to conduct a study into the development of electric forklift truck sound alerts.
Forklift Trucks
Nexus Vehicle Rental has launched Nexus Plant Hire to provide businesses access to a range of plant machinery through its rental management system Iris.
Maintenance Management Systems
ABB Robotics’s Yumi cooperative robot (cobot) is automating planting tasks in a jungle laboratory in the Peruvian Amazon as part of a collaboration with Junglekeepers.
Robots
ITI Group is to provide a monitoring system that will serve as an enabler for the beginning of site installation and commissioning works at Hinkley Point C.
Nuclear Plant
Pump specialist Michael Smith Engineers (MSE) has become the only authorised distributor for Viking Industrial Pumps, having expanded its sales territory of the product to Scotland.
Pumps
Samotics is to help reduce delays for more than 27 million annual travellers at London Stansted Airport by improving the reliability of baggage handling equipment.
Machine Controls
Eriks UK has launched an app that enables its customers to digitally replenish their stores, ensuring they receive a next day delivery with digital traceability.
Condition Monitoring
ABB has inaugurated a calibration facility in its Minden factory in Germany, which is expected to provide customers with high levels of accuracy in process flowmeters.
Flow Measurement
A new Aggreko report is highlighting solutions to navigate an uncertain energy market as supply instability and grid shortfalls continue to prove challenging to European manufacturers.
Energy Recovery
Eight members of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) visited Sellafield’s Engineering Centre of Excellence in Cumbria to further their professional development.
Nuclear Plant
Sensor supplier Vaisala explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector
Flow Measurement
The National Robotarium and Fugro are developing electric remotely operated vehicles (eROVs) that will repair and maintain offshore wind turbines as part of a £1.4 million project.
Offshore