When it comes to steel wire ropes for lifts and elevators, getting lubrication and maintenance right couldn't be much more critical. At the most basic level, all such ropes must be periodically...
Ropes/Cables
What - Maintec exhibition and conference
Where - NEC, Birmingham
When - 17-19 March 2009
Last year, we began a series of features on instrumentation and control, aimed at helping plant engineers to skill-up. In the first feature we covered pressure and flow equipment. In this second...
Level Measurement
You'll have heard it said more times than you probably care to remember that variance is the bane of manufacturing - and the same is true in the process sector, the utilities and so on. Why? Because...
Communication Systems
Setting aside the global recession, there are few subjects more in the news than engineering skills. Recent months have seen government ministers, DIUS (the Department for Innovation, Universities and...
Continuing Professional Development
Pulp and paper mills are among our most energy- and emissions-intensive plants. Large quantities of steam are essential for many of its processes and the sad fact is that, because boilers, steam...
Steam Generation/Equipment
It is not uncommon for organisations to report that up to a third of their total factory energy bill can be attributed to compressed air plant. No surprise then that, with energy prices at record...
Bearings
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the planet's most powerful subatomic particle accelerator - made it into the record books when, at 10.28am on Wednesday 10 September, in front of the world's...
Vacuum Pumps/Pipes
So-called environmentally friendly and synthetic lubricants have been available for some time now in ever growing ranges, tuned to the sheer diversity of industrial requirements. But, while the latter...
Lubricants/Greases
The robot revolution is underway and will be happening in a hospital near you very soon. So says Dr Patrick Finlay, director of Prosurgics, the company he founded back in 1995 to build medical robots....
Robots
With the obvious exception of the global economic crisis and its insidious infection now of the ?real economy', recent months, and indeed years, have seen no greater issue than climate change....
Gas Turbines
Although the cost of components - such as rolling element bearings, rotors and fasteners - in hydraulic pumps is usually very small, compared to the list price of the pumps themselves, the cost of...
Lubricants/Greases