Network Rail has ordered seven installations of Oilaway, a sealed workshop oil maintenance system, for seven workshop sites across its network.
Lubricants/Greases
A new handheld tester from Fluke, 710 mA Loop Valve Tester, can interrogate control valves in situ, potentially avoiding the need for complicated testers that require extensive training, the removal...
control valves
Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has blamed uncertainty surrounding Brexit as 'one factor amongst others' in its decisions to shut two of its three UK plants as well as one of its...
Bearings
Gardeners treat autumn as the start of the new growing season; a time for clearing out, cleaning up and digging the ground in preparation for spring. So it is for this magazine; while the leaves of...
Continuing Professional Development
An Igus three-axis assembly robot for pick-and-place applications is now available for £5,500 without controller. It offers a 380mm working diameter at 75mm standoff.
Robots
Bowman Power Group has signed an agreement for CooperÖstlund to be its preferred installer of electric turbo compounding (ETC) products for gas engines in the UK.
Turbines
Turret-mounted lasers that deter birds have found to reduce crop losses 70-90% in field trials in Argentina.
Pollution Control
Fluor Corp of the USA and IBM are working together to implement artificial intelligence-based systems to predict, monitor and measure the status of engineering, procurement, fabrication and...
Risk Assessment
A large UK tower crane supplier has invested in a fleet of JCB diesel generators. Falcon Tower Crane Services Ltd is buying a fleet of 18 units of JCB’s new rental generators, including G100RS, G150RS...
Generating Sets
On 29 August, Volvo Construction Equipment and its customer Skanska began testing the viability of an (almost) all-electric machinery concept at Skanska’s Vikan Kross quarry, near Gothenburg, Sweden.
Electric Motors DC