Plant, Process and Control
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MRP system speeds orders

New MRP manufacturing
software installed at
Nottingham-based laser- and
waterjet-cutting specialist,
Lasershape, uses live order
processing functionality to
accelerate the company’s
entire front-end admin
process. Ben

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Survey reveals attitudes to instrumentation

Asurvey by ABB into the use
of process instrumentation
has produced a snapshot of
how process instrumentation users
employ their instruments, as well as
their thoughts on the use of intelligent
instruments and their att

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Versatility & performance in a tight spot

Shoreham Port has two sea-locks, one
for smaller/leisure craft, the other for
larger shipping.

To control the smaller
lock, three VEGA ultrasonic
level systems are fitted – the
first on the port side, a
second inside

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Water quality monitoring

GF Piping Systems has added the
new infrared Signet 4150
Turbidimeter to its extensive line of
analytical instrumentation. The new
instrument provides accurate and
reliable water quality monitoring that
in two-versions

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Digital strain gauge

Team GB’s Olympic Rowing Teams,
who performed so brilliantly at the
2012 London Olympic Games, used
instrumentation designed and built
by Loughborough University’s Sports
Technology Institute
and the English
Institute

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Portable NDT instruments

Expanding its non-destructive
testing (NDT) techniques and
complementing its existing array of
advanced instruments, Keighley
Laboratories has invested in a
portable conductivity meter, which
measures the electrical con

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Panel meter

New from Status Instruments, the
DM4500F frequency/pulse count
meter accepts various types of pulse
and frequency sensors to display rate,
totalise, flow, RPM and pulse count.

The DM4500F is suitable for
applications

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Maintenance-free, reliable operation

An enhanced range of level gauges
and flow sensors is now available
from Boiswood following the
addition of measurement and control
specialist Intra-Automation
as an equipment supplier.

Among the new level
gauges off

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Perfect rejection of faulty parts

Like many injection
moulders, Barkley Plastics
has been using cavity pressure
monitoring for several years
to try to identify out of spec
parts before they get into the
delivery system. However,
two of the old systems

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Durability record

After almost 20 years in
service, the last of six 1992
vintage Logopak print-apply
case labelling machines is
being replaced at convenience
food manufacturer
Symington’s in Leeds, creating
a new durability record for t

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