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Operating in a high-production environment, one large pet food manufacturer was experiencing issues during the phase-out of their current valve manifolds on...

ERIKS expands in the UK with the acquisition of two sites previously operated by Parsons Peebles Group (PPG). The acquired sites in Cardiff and Derby are...

Part 1: Evolution, not revolution. It’s easy to promise a quick fix that reduces maintenance costs, increases uptime and efficiency, and optimises productivity. It’s much harder to make those things a reality. And anyway, in reality they’ll never be achieved with a quick fix. But using an iterative process, and with the right know-how, advice and support, making Online Monitoring part of your maintenance strategy can deliver those benefits worth waiting for.

It’s easy to promise a quick fix that reduces maintenance costs, increases uptime and efficiency, and optimises productivity. It’s much harder to make those...

Congratulations to all at ERIKS Grimsby on their donation to Viking FM's Cash for Kids charity which ensures that every child in the Grimsby area gets a gifts..

In asset management as in life: the more you know, the more you can do. And the sooner you know something, the better. We can't upgrade our brains. You can be smarter about your management of assets with ERIKS Smart Asset Management.

In asset management as in life: the more you know, the more you can do. And the sooner you know something, the better. We can't upgrade our brains. You can...

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is industry’s prime metric for identifying and rectifying machinery-related problems in the manufacturing process. It’s also a benchmark for progress made against other manufacturers’ performance. But for companies lacking the necessary in-house skills, and striving to achieve more productivity for less cost, achieving the reliability and long service life that drive OEE can be challenging. A new industry-leading asset care strategy from SKF could be the answer.

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.

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...

Often when equipment fails, the biggest concern is how to get it running again. However, equally as important is finding the root cause and how it can be avoided in the future. By providing managers and service technicians with the knowledge to identify causes of gearbox failures, they can establish an effective preventative maintenance program to support their plant and site operations.

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%.