articleThe UK is renowned for its industrial excellence, however a number of basic errors are creeping in at crucial points in the supply chain, particularly when it comes to the state of the nation’s storerooms. In light of the findings from a report on the subject, Andy Silver, customer services director at ERIKS UK, discusses some of the issues affecting storeroom management across the UK industrial sector
productThe new VUCAM XO is a budget priced high performance portable industrial video borescope. By combining new Imaging technologies with field proven industrial video endoscope manufacturing, this new product is said to offer the user excellent endoscopic image capabilities at favourable costs.
productSensor specialist ifm electronic has updated several features of its VNB smart vibration switch to cover even more applications.
productAvailable from Shire Systems, Pirana CMMS is a cost effective, quick start-up maintenance software solution that is supported by a range of hands-on training courses, free ‘try-before-you-buy’ regional roadshows, and fully functional software trial.
productSwedish forestry group Nordic Paper has decided to use SPM’s recently developed accelerometer, DuoTech, as the standard sensor for condition monitoring of critical equipment at the group’s three mills in Bäckhammar, Säffle and Åmotfors.
productThe 2016 Maintec show is an exciting one for SoftSols Group; at this year’s exhibition the company will be showing how its EAM and CMMS software solution – Agility – can be used to manage assets and maintenance in the 4.0 era.
productAn intrinsically safe infrared temperature sensor is available from Omega.
productAvailable from Zarges, the new Seventec stepladder has been designed to cope with the most demanding conditions – from working outdoors in snow, ice and rain, to working indoors in wet or dirty environments.
productOriginally the ‘British Vacuum Company’, the BVC brand now represents a wide range of industrial vacuum cleaners, vacuum pumps and exhausters and central vacuum cleaning systems manufactured and distributed by Quirepace.
productAvailable in the UK from Ixthus Instrumentation, the Datawatch IX monitor/recorder from condition monitoring systems specialist, Metrix Instrument, features a 3.5in colour TFT display for clear visualisation of vibration, acceleration and other process parameters through four or eight universal inputs with fully configurable views plus alarm, shutdown and data recording/storage capability.
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