For those operating in processing sectors such as paper, power generation, chemicals, sugar, mining and oil and gas, adopting a proactive maintenance strategy is key to eliminating common failures...
Pumps
An application of the Fluke ii900 industrial acoustic imager has improved safety levels across multiple hospital sites while also being able to meet its own demanding sustainability targets.
Condition Monitoring
By controlling IE4 motors with Eaton PowerXL DG1 variable frequency drives, a German water utility’s pumping station near Augsburg has reduced its energy costs by 15%.
Pumps
The UK-based, second-life battery energy storage specialist Connected Energy has won five new investors: Volvo Energy, Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc., the Hinduja Group, Mercuria and OurCrowd, who...
Electrical/Electronic Testing
Electricity utility Drax has submitted an application for planning consent to build a new underground pumped storage hydro power station which would more than double the electricity generating...
Utilities
A digital service that gives instant visibility to filling levels in packaging machinery has been developed by SICK in collaboration with industry end-users. SICK Filling Level Monitoring avoids...
Machine Controls
The creators of a new energy management platform for non-domestic buildings say it should enable users to cut utility bills and carbon emissions by 25% within a year of implementation.
Building Energy System
Siemens has teamed up with Liverpool’s John Moores University to launch a top-up degree in manufacturing systems engineering.
Workplace Training
Neilson Hydraulics & Engineering, a designer and manufacturer of hydraulic systems, power packs and a supplier of a range of hydraulic components has been announced as a new Bosch Rexroth Certified...
Hydraulic Components/Equipment
Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced the launch of its commercial per-plant farming robot services. Pilot trials this season have revealed...
Robots
ABB, working alongside Hyundai Engineering and Técnicas Reunidas, has been employed to install its distributed control system (DCS) ABB Ability System 800xA at the new Olefin III complex in Plock,...
SCADA
The Airbus Global Market Forecast – which is well known for its evaluation of the airline industry’s aircraft needs during 20-year time periods – also assesses the sector’s workforce, and the most...
Apprenticeships