Global manufacturers, including Heineken, PepsiCo and Siemens, have agreed to share their experiences in turning maintenance from a cost centre to a profit generating activity at the upcoming WM Maintenance Conference.
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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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Nearly half (46.5%) of the control systems on UK plants are up to 10 years old, with more than one third (39.5%) between 11 and 20 years old.
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Condition monitoring is the best form of maintenance and more firms should make use of this valuable method for minimising downtime. That's the call from Andrew Fraser (pictured) of consultancy Reliable Manufacturing, who points out operators are often an untapped resource for detecting machine failure.
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Stress analysis consultancy Strain Solutions is using thermal imaging cameras from Micro-Epsilon to monitor energy flow processes for its clients throughout the world and says the equipment is "superb" for the price.
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Paper manufacturer Stora Ensa is reporting major benefits from the introduction of an 'operator driven reliability' (ODR) programme from SKF, a programme which paid for itself in the first month.
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Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) specialist Brammer has launched what it describes as a 'mobile centre of excellence', designed to showcase its product and service offering.
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Manufacturers could save up to £110m a year by taking simple low and no cost actions to improve their compressed air systems and processes, according to new guidance published by the Carbon Trust.
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FB Chain, which specialises in leaf chain and associated products for the mechanical handling industry, has won its biggest ever order from forklift truck and materials handling specialist Jungheinrich's Italian division.
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Schaeffler UK has launched a non-contact infrared temperature measurement device that measures the surface temperature of components in a wide variety of applications.
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Low power wireless specialist, IDC, has announced that it is providing improved, cable-less machine monitoring and enhanced safeguarding with a new range of wireless-enabled stacking beacons. The new beacons allow central machine monitoring of all machine types, existing and new, including those that for reasons of cabling complexity were previously considered impossible to network.
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A specialist manufacturer that has only been in existence for four years has beaten tough opposition to collect a prestigious award for its export success.
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