Efficient Maintenance
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Optimising machine reliability

For a fixed price (including travel to and from site) injection moulders can now have every Sumitomo (SHI) Demag NC5 machine in their fleet thoroughly checked and certified to ISO 9001 and VDA 6.4 standards, increasing reliability and enhancing production performance.

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Condition monitoring aids flood prevention

INSTALLING CONDITION monitoring devices on flood pumps and motors can provide advanced warning of any impending bearing failures. In this example vibration monitoring, along with automatic lubrication, has prevented unplanned downtime of flood pumping stations

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Keeping your diesel engine healthy

Many applications rely on back-up power to kick in in an emergency and performing maintenance will make sure that power ‘plan B’ is a success. Keith Brown explains how businesses can maintain reliable power sources

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IoT condition monitoring in the process industry

Industrial customers require insights into the behavior of their assets to proactively plan maintenance across their production facilities. Commonly referred to as ‘condition monitoring’, this is achieved by measuring and trending operational parameters such as bearing unit temperature and vibration that give an indication of the asset’s condition

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Machine overspeed protection

Renowned in the field of monitoring and protection systems for rotating machinery, Meggitt SA is entering the market for overspeed protection by broadening its vibro-meter portfolio.

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Improving railway rolling-stock maintenance

A new £1.8m project led by the University of Huddersfield is investigating how cutting-edge technology and data analysis could improve the efficiency and reliability of how the UK’s railway rolling stock is maintained.

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Custom reporting tool for industrial maintenance

Intoware the workflow specialist has launched a powerful custom reporting ‘tool’ for its workflow platform, WorkfloPlus that allows unique data reports to be created and shared to help streamline plant maintenance, safety and compliance.

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Helps improve lubrication management

SKF has extended the capability of its Enlight ProCollect portable data collection system, enabling maintenance engineers to plan lubrication routes around a factory or process operation.

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Hydraulic equipment maintenance & improvement

Fugro, the world’s leading geo-data specialist, has worked with Bosch Rexroth for over a decade to ensure it has the best hydraulic systems and software solutions on board its geotechnical drilling vessel, the Fugro Synergy. Now, they are working together again in order to better prepare for the future

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Advanced pump analysis proves invaluable

For those in the energy industry, being able to identify pre-failure conditions and anomalous operation can offer a considerable advantage to a repeatable budget and bottom-line margins. Using this intelligence to permanently remove failure modes through retrofit solutions will further extend the service life of rotating equipment. Seth Tate, Technical Advisor with Sulzer, looks at how a cutting-edge software solution can analyse existing pump telemetry to reduce downtime and justify engineering improvements.

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