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High standards within the hospitality and retail industries are crucial to success and profitability, from ensuring the best food quality and sustainability practices to streamlining operating costs – but how can this be achieved every time, without fail?

Clearly there’s a great deal of infrastructure involved from ovens to refrigerators and freezers, and these are crucial assets that ensure the best quality whilst playing a large role in sustainability. This equipment also makes up a high proportion of operating costs in energy usage, but are these systems operating at their most efficient level? The only way to ensure this 100% of the time is through smart condition monitoring systems that can help to transform quality and energy efficiency by alerting staff to any underperforming assets.

Valmet will supply Valmet IQ Steam Profiler and Valmet DNA Machine Monitoring systems with condition monitoring analysis and diagnosis services to Zhejiang Jingxing Paper Co., Ltd. in China. The systems will be installed on Jingxing Paper’s paper machines PM12 and PM16 to provide effective moisture profile management and predictive condition monitoring, and to improve production runnability and end-product quality. 

The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the fourth quarter 2020. The delivery will take place in the first quarter of 2021.

“Valmet is one of our strategic partners, and we have had good cooperation with them. We believe that Valmet’s automation solutions and innovative technology will help us improve production reliability and better product quality,” says Xiaodong Qian, General Manager, Industrial paper department, Jingxing Paper.

Electrical Vibration Problem: This is the first of five video case studies on Enhanced System Reliability by James Sylvester.

Filtertechnik’s tablet-based portable oil analysis kit gives in-depth analysis and portability through new digital imaging technology. A 10” touch screen display literally puts all the metrics you need at your fingertips.  Particulate counts and analysis, water content and remaining oil life.

The new digital imaging camera takes 4 frames-per-second at intricate resolution, recognising anything that is 2 microns and above. Additional benefits are advanced algorythms which sort particles by size and shape giving root cause analysis.  An additional benefit is that the camera recognises air bubles and eliminates them from ISO counts. 

Easily scalable; your machine operators, process plants and entire manufacturing sites can now benefit from the use of OPTIME.

Schaeffler’s new Condition Monitoring (CM) solution, OPTIME, offers a unique set of benefits over alternative CM systems. In simple terms, users can Plug > Play > Predict. The installation is straightforward and does not require any specialist expertise. The machine diagnostics are displayed instantly, showing the maintenance engineers where they are needed.

Condition Monitoring (CM) gives its full value when it is used to drive Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) or at the very least is used to plan corrective work before machine failure occurs.

However, just having an overall measurement of machine condition, such as an overall vibration level reading, doesn’t tell you enough to do this.   What you need to know to plan efficient corrective work before machine failure is: 

In a move that will present fewer Brexit-related issues for its customers, increase its stock holding and strengthen ties with its parent company in Japan, steam solutions specialist TLV Euro Engineering has expanded its UK operations with the opening of a new 6,000 square feet warehousing facility in Cheltenham.

Commenting for TLV Euro Engineering, general manager Michael Povey says: “As we neared the end of 2020 it became clear that, whatever the outcome of a trade agreement between the UK and European Union, our customers would benefit more from the trade agreement reached between the UK and Japan.

MD calls for Government incentives to make green investment financially viable

AESSEAL^® is to invest £250,000 to introduce electric vehicles to its company fleet, in the first stage of its campaign to adopt a greener transport infrastructure.

The global mechanical seal manufacturer will purchase a company van and pool cars this year, in support of the Government’s drive towards abolishing the sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2030.  Charging points will also be installed at its Rotherham headquarters and Bradford site for employees and visitors who have electric vehicles.

Infrared Thermal Imaging is useful across many industrial sectors

Hi! I’m Craig Smith, a Reliability Engineer at RMS. Over the past few years I’ve been using Infrared Thermal Imaging technology to great affect, helping customers diagnose and repair maintenance issues with higher degrees of accuracy and speed.

Ultimo Software Solutions has announced that DNASTREAM, the IT consulting organisation, will operate as its UK implementation partner. DNASTREAM will focus on the manufacturing and utilities sectors, supporting businesses by driving the more efficient use of assets, enabled by Ultimo’s Enterprise Asset Management software.

Ultimo and DNASTREAM have been working together since 2018 and are now expanding their collaboration as a first step in Ultimo’s expansion of its international partner strategy. DNASTREAM offers the Ultimo portfolio as part of its extensive range of IT solutions. The business is fully equipped to advise customers on their asset management issues and support any implementation process.