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Making Sense of Sensors

by Mark Jackson

Sensors are everywhere from your Fitbit to your iPhone, and coming soon to a driverless car near you. Yet in a reversal of the usual order, it’s consumers who are benefiting first from the technological developments, while industry lags behind. Not for long.

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ERIKS Collaborates with TU Delft Students to Scoop Second Place

by Richard Ludlam

The world of advanced technology, and the culture that surrounds it, is moving at an incredible pace, with developments that we could never envision coming to the forefront of the industry - take Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop competition as the perfect example

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The Great Baking Belt Off

by Gareth Lenton

What sticks to a conveyor belt even more persistently than Paul Hollywood sticks to the Great British Bake Off? Bread dough. At least that’s what one industrial baker found. But fortunately ERIKS found a non-stick solution.  

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Beating Bacteria Through Engineering

by Alex Mills

Food producers need no guidance from engineers on maintaining cleanliness and hygiene in their production processes. Correct hygienic procedures, wash-down regimes and so on are second nature to reputable producers. But if the equipment being used is unhygienic in its design, then what chance do they have?

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No Magic Wand Needed

by Pete Townsend

If half the motors that fail on your site every month have the same failure mode, you might think it needs a magic wand or a miracle to solve the problem. But for a customer operating the largest tinned soups and beans manufacturing facility in Europe, all it took was some ERIKS know-how to reduce that figure from 50% to 6%. 

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An Expert Spills the Beans (And Cleans Them Up Afterwards)

by Paul Skade

If something on your site can spill, it will, sooner or later. Whether that spill causes injury, pollution, reputational damage and financial loss doesn’t just depend on what’s spilled, but also on what steps you take when it 

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The Right Medicine

by Thomas Boswell

Profiting from the expertise of many internationally-renowned universities and research laboratories, pharmaceuticals manufacturing accounts for nearly ten per cent of all manufacturing in the UK, with exports worth up to £30 billion a year.

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When Two Heads are Better Than One

by Gareth Lenton

No-one knows as much about your industry and your application as you. Except ERIKS. You have the day-to-day, on-the-job experience gained at your own facility. We have the industry-wide experience that comes from working on countless different applications to resolve unique problems. So working together, your engineers and our technical and application teams can resolve any drive or power transmission issue in your plant. 

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Belts Go Up a Notch

by Gareth Lenton

The Fenner® Quattro PLUS CRE and Quattro Plus TW friction belts take belt technology further than ever before. 

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Cheque Mate - Brexit & The Manufacturing Industry

by Richard Ludlam

The Government has finally come up with a Brexit negotiating position and, on the surface, it appears to be good news for manufacturers.

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