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5 Top Tips to Improve and Maintain Machine Performance

by Andy Silver

Managing industrial automation machinery is complex these days. Limited budgets and production pressures challenge busy maintenance professionals. 

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New Elau Servo Motor Test and Repair Service

by Victor Harris

ERIKS has pioneered a comprehensive programming, repair and full function testing service for Elau servo motors that will reduce the risk of costly failures for end users.

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Breathe More Easily

by Paul Skade

The quarrying industry is dangerous enough, without having to worry about every breath you take, yet one of the health risks of working in the industry is caused by exposure to fine dust, containing crystalline silica (otherwise known as quartz). So it is essential to use the correct personal protection equipment.

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When a Bearing is Really a Hinge

by James Goodgame

Once in service, the bearings provided greater resistance to wear and seizure – reducing downtime and giving a 6-year service life. This resulted in a saving to the customer of £663,000 per year.

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An Open-and-Shut Case of Compliance

by Garry Wakeling

An FDA audit is a testing time – in every sense of the word – for many businesses. And even the largest businesses can find themselves falling short of requirements for FDA compliance.

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Don't Let Off Steam

by Chris Dixon

When you’re looking for ways to reduce energy consumption and costs, and to increase efficiency and productivity, you shouldn’t let steam off the hook. An efficient steam system is a perfect energy transporter. But a poorly-designed system, or one with leaks or condensate build-up, can waste thousand of pounds a year in energy costs.

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Having Your Cake and Eating It

by Mark Carpenter

Food and beverage manufacturers want to have the best of all possible worlds: optimum cost-efficiency, combined with consistently high standards of hygiene, and exceptional flexibility for product, packaging and pack size variation. When you not only want to make your cake, but have it and eat it too, process and factory automation technology solutions from Festo can help.

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The Combination That Unlocks Savings

by Mark Maher

Combine control with efficiency and you virtually guarantee savings: of energy, money and time. 

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How SKF Lengthens Bearing Service Life by the Power of 3

by James Goodgame

In the highly contaminated, dusty, dirty operating environment of a mine or quarry, machinery has a hard life. But even here, the power of the SKF three-barrier solution – combined with the new SKF Taconite seal – has been proven to lengthen equipment service life by up to three times.

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Cups and Sourcers from Piab

by Mark Carpenter

If you need to source suction cups for any application in any industry, you don’t need to look any further than Piab. From the smallest plastic parts to the largest sheets of metal, there’s almost certain to be a Piab suction cup to handle it.

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