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Though friction belts are the traditional choice, engineers are coming to realise that timing belts have several advantages. Friction belts and pulleys wear during use, so need re-tensioning 3-4 times during their average three-year lifetime. Each re-tensioning results in downtime.
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The most recent annual survey of the food and beverage industry by accountants BDO found that 89% of manufacturers thought productivity improvement was a critical priority for the year ahead.
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Whatever the industry, it’s impossible to eliminate all risks. COMAH regulators know that’s the case, but they still want you to do everything you can to reduce the risk to as low as reasonably practicable. So, if you’ve overlooked or underestimated the potential hazard of static build-up and sparking from your hoses, then you’re falling short.
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With their long operating range of up to 8m, the new M30 ultrasonic sensors from ifm are far and away the best solution for detecting distant objects, or for continuous level monitoring.
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On many industrial sites, knives are used for cutting many different kinds of materials. Safe and effective cutting with a properly specified and selected knife from MARTOR can ensure user safety, as well as increasing productivity and reducing costs.
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The first task to achieve ‘No unplanned failures’ was to develop a strategic vision for reliability at the plant. Secondly, to develop an implementation plan. Lastly, to develop a reliability Best Practice document for their manufacturing group. The ultimate aims of this process would be to accelerate reliability-centred plant initiatives, mitigate risk exposure to critical spares gaps, increase productivity, obtain an insight into the assets’ status, and enable smarter replacement thanks to optimised monitoring.
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Weighing just 10kg, the next-generation LPA3 portable particle counter from MP Filtri gives you lab-standard hydraulic health check capability, even out in the field.
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There’s cable, and there’s intelligent cable. And cable doesn’t get more intelligent than an igus cable with a CF.Q sensor system.
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What can you add to a valve to increase its reliability and efficiency, optimise its service life, and lower its Total Cost of Ownership? 3,000m2 should do it. That’s the size of the new purpose-built ERIKS Flow Control facility for valve repair, test and certification, supported by £1.5m of stock. There are other valve service and repair facilities, but none backed by such a huge stockholding. There are valve certification centres, but none with state-of-the art repair workshops. And there are valve suppliers with limited stocks – but none with such a vast choice, plus in-house fabrication expertise and system-build capability.
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Do you want drive trains with resistance to shock stress? With silent operation? Or do you want the capability to adjust your couplings to compensate for misalignment? The new Fenner® TriFlex Couplings give you all three.
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