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Pressure jet burners: Achieving potential

Modern pressure jet burners provide control features that help to optimise energy efficiency and minimise emissions. Bernard Dawson, technical director of Riello offers some tips on how to take advantage of them

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Training investment helps cut downtime

A UK fast-moving consumer goods (fmcg) manufacturing company, concerned about the amount of time lost due to electrical breakdowns on its machines, used  data from its Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to develop a multi-skilling training and mentoring programme and, in so doing, saved in excess of 1000 hours of downtime. Mick Neville, specialist consultant with MCP has the details

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Robot recipe for food industry

Although behind the rest of the EU and US markets in terms of sales, the UK food industry has shown an increased interest in robots over the last 12 months. John Rainer, regional sales manager FANUC UK comments

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Savvy solutions to energy issues

As compressed air continues to cause an upsurge in electricity output, Mark Whitmore, general manager of BOGE Compressors, explains the benefits of energy surveys and early fault detection

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Engineers: Solving problems or sourcing spares?

With engineering skills becoming an increasingly scarce resource it is important that an engineer’s time is spent on core tasks. Unfortunately, too many are still spending valuable time sourcing spares, according to Paul Bermingham, contract development manager Eriks Integrated Solutions Ireland

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