Trackside maintenance at one of the UK’s busiest railway stations is being revolutionised with the help of engineers in South Yorkshire who have worked with PAULEY Group and the owner and operator of the country’s only high-speed railway to develop augmented reality (AR) technology which will streamline how faults are detected and repaired.
Anyone working in the warehouse industry over the past year will have seen the impact national lockdowns have had on the online retail industry. The demand for storage space and systems has grown exponentially. At its peak in Q2 of 2020 it has been estimated that enquiries for additional warehousing were 111% higher when compared to the previous year.
IN THE age of intense global competition the pressure on manufacturers to achieve greater levels of efficiency and quality output is relentless. But when machines and equipment underperform or fail, this can result in service delays, unhappy customers, and productivity and income losses, asserts Iwona Kandpal, industrial digital technology specialist at Made Smarter.
CONDITION MONITORING (CM) in process and manufacturing is one of the key strategies for ensuring plant productivity, reliability and integrity. It is known under many guises: machine health monitoring, predictive maintenance, proactive maintenance, asset health management and combines the range of many specialist monitoring techniques into a strategic tool for the management decision process.
BEN DOBBS, Head of LEEA Technical Services, who is involved with various standards committees worldwide for cranes, provides a maintenance management guide to the most recent improvements to the BS 7121 Series of crane safety standards.
More and more SME warehouse operators and e-commerce retailers are deploying automated intralogistics technology to ensure that they meet delivery promises to online shoppers, says Paul Freeman
Welding is a very common fabrication process, used across production and maintenance operations, that uses heat to join (or fuse) two or more materials by heating them to melting point.
Since the pandemic began, industrial workplaces with already high health and safety demands have experienced a new set of pressures, says Naz Dossa
When precision engineering specialist, Grainger and Worrall Machining, was awarded a contract to machine V8 blocks and bedplates for a niche high-end OEM in performance car market, it turned to MecWash to achieve the highest cleanliness standards
Set to be the first and only major event to reunite the UK’s occupational safety and health community, The Health & Safety Event opens its doors on 7-9 September 2021 at the NEC in Birmingham
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