Maintenance regimes are being blighted by an overreliance on acronyms and tick box exercises, the WM Maintenance Conference has heard.
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SABIC's chemical plant on Teeside is reporting £10 million a year in productivity gains, thanks to an improvement programme that has transformed equipment effiency and workforce engagement.
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Rockwell Automation has announced a series of summer dates for its Automation University EDGE series, which provides business improvement advice for senior engineers and manufacturing managers.
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Maintenance experts at global manufacturing giants including Heineken, PepsiCo and Siemens will be revealing the secrets of banishing downtime at WM's Maintenence Conference this June.
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Works Management has launched a new conference aimed at putting your maintenance team at the heart of your lean and CI programmes.
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James Baker, managing director of BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, is to provide the keynote at Siemens' major 'Answers for Industry' conference, this year being staged at the Manchester Central Convention Complex from 4—5 July.
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Tata Steel UK has awarded Brammer a three year general bearings contract.
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Manufacturers could save significant sums by looking at the frequency of plant shutdowns and assessing whether the intervals are ideal for today's operation. That's the view of Alex Thomson, principal consultant at asset management consultancy The Woodhouse Partnership.
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According to a sector specialist, wear protection – the process of coating or lining process plant and equipment, such as cyclones, valves, bunkers, pipework, chutes, etc, with ceramics, metallics or polymers to extend their life – is under-employed in the UK. This is resulting in unnecessary maintenance costs and lost industrial production time running into millions of pounds a year.
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The trade body, The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) is supporting the launch of the two-year theme – Safe Maintenance – at this month's European Week for Safety and Health at Work (25th – 31st October) organised by The European Campaign for Safety and Health at Work and supported by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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Buracco, an industrial valve manufacturer, has found the solution to costly downtime of conveyor belts which are difficult to access. Its maintenance team needed to reach the belts when faults occurred but traditional access equipment wasn't suitable – it found the answer with a Genie articulating boom with rotating jib. The boom is just over one metre wide, enabling easy manoeuvrability in a compact footprint.
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