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Rockwell publishes first Process Safebook

'Process Safebook 1: Functional Safety in the Process Industry' is a new free publication from Rockwell Automation that explains the principles and standards around achieving safety in process applications.

The book provides a valuable overview of functional safety as well as guidance around the application of IEC61511, the process industry-specific implementation of the IEC61508 framework. ...
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Engineered safety

Given the scope, complexity and dynamic nature of the regulations behind safety systems for automated production equipment, enlightened manufacturers are increasingly seeking help. Brian Tinham talks to Rockwell about some of the issues.

IT Shortlist 2013

No one relishes ripping and replacing major business systems, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Brian Tinham looks at recent developments as part of WM's IT Shortlist 2013 guide

Overcast or bright clouds?

There are easy ways to experiment with the power of cloud computing, says WM's Brian Tinham

Big data or in-memory computing?

Brian Tinham, WM's technology editor, asks what is big data and how can it help manufacturers

Stepping up to the Mark

Manufacturers say the job market is saturated with a generation of the illiterate and unemployable. So what's Mark Prisk, the man behind future industry policy, going to do about it? The WM Leaders Forum – our think-tank for the sector – ...
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American idol

The UK has long been a follower of US fashion. Bob Davis of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence tells Max Gosney about the latest manufacturing trends heading our way across the Atlantic

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Precise savings from bearing improvements

Leicester-based high precision machining firm AETC has cut maintenance costs by several thousand pounds, just by correctly specifying and fitting machine bearings.

Dawnfresh nets the benefits of new maintenance software

Dawnfresh Seafoods has installed a new computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) to manage engineering maintenance at its main production site in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.

Rapid manufacturing applied to human prosthetics

Tom Shelley reports on moves by the medical industry to use rapid prototyping technology to improve amputee care