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	Talking Shop Having spent the festive season in the States opened my eyes to a different way of doing Christmas. Some of it was terrific but some of it was just plain weird. After all, who in their right mind would prefer green bean casserole to pigs in blankets and sage and onion stuffing as an accompaniment to their Christmas dinner? Many of the differences between UK and US culture would still be a mystery to me if it wasn?t for the patience and perseverance of my American wife who lovingly explains (where possible) the reasons behind the differences.
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	Just three days to replace critical bearings at steel mill The replacement of large, split spherical roller bearings on a critical, 140-tonne steel mill converter was completed within three days by FAG Industrial Services (F?IS), the maintenance and condition monitoring services division of the Schaeffler Group. The important maintenance work was carried out on the trunnion bearings on a 140-tonne steel mill converter at ThyssenKrupp?s steel production plant in Terni, Italy.
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	Thermal imager aimed at buildings A hand-held infrared thermal imager that can instantly reveal any number of problem areas in buildings has been launched by high quality measurement systems and sensors manufacturer, Testo Ltd.
	New Thermal Imagers Fluke's Ti25 and Ti10 ? which integrate IR and visible light images Both models incorporate IR Fusion? - technology that integrates infrared and visual (visible light) images in full screen or picture-in-picture views for enhanced problem detection and analysis. Built to withstand harsh work environments, both are designed as a complete, effective and easy-to-use thermal imaging solution for everyday troubleshooting and maintenance of electrical installations, electro-mechanical and process equipment, HVAC/R units and other industrial and electrical equipment.
	Artesis Predictive Maintenance System Wins Innovation Award Artesis MCM, a new entrant to the UK predictive maintenance market, has won a prestigious Innovation in Engineering Award from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Artesis MCM uses advanced technology to satisfy the requirements of the many industries looking to increase the productivity of their machinery, predicting the effect of faults without the complication and cost of traditional monitoring systems.
	PCMS wins Business Achievement Award for Intelligent Maintenance Services At regular intervals throughout the year, the Directors of Business Today select a number of forward-thinking companies that have displayed a continual commitment to recognise best practice, innovative business processes and deliver overall high quality customer-focused service.
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	New Fluke Ti40/Ti50 IR Flexcam Thermal Imagers with IR-Fusion technology
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	IET names UK's Top Young Women Engineers The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has named the winners in its 2007 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards. The Awards, now in their 30th year, are the most prestigious of their type within the engineering profession and recognise success and talent among women engineers.
	Don't Do This!
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	Needles Courtesy of GE's Reliability Services
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	Packaging - Rubbish or simply misunderstood? Ian Morris is a dedicated career professional yet most of us would mistakenly view the subject of his commitment as rubbish. Ian?s passion is packaging hence his current position of Packaging Training Manager for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) which now incorporates the Institute of Packaging. His 25 years of comprehensive experience gives him a deep insight into the reality of packaging as well as the many changes that have surrounded this occasionally contentious area. Which is why we should listen when he says that all too often it is our own preconceptions about the role of packaging, as opposed to packaging itself, which should be correctly seen as the true rubbish.
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	Easy CMMS
	FrontLine Computerised Maintenance Management Software
	Maintenance Software Just Got Easier
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	Measuring Success for your CMMS Implementation The starting point for making a cultural shift away from a reactive, breakdown, firefighting mentality, is formulating a strategy together with Operations. The strategy states vision, mission, values, goals and objectives for achieving a more planned environment. In turn, this should result in greater overall efficiency and effectiveness of the maintenance function. Once a strategy is in place, operating principles and performance measures/targets can be established as described below. These are used as guidelines for defining success for projects such as a CMMS implementation.
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	Artesis MCM - Advanced Technology
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	TPM - The 'pinch-point' solution for lean manufacturing In this second part, Peter would like to answer three more questions as follows:- What are some of the Myths & Realities of OEE? How can we creat the right Environment and generate the right Behaviours to Sustain the TPM gains? What are the common Pitfalls to Avoid?
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	See page 13 for TPM the 'pinch-point' solution for lean manufacturing
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	Condition Red
	The NEC Thermo Tracer Range
	Sensors That Protect Your Plant...
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	My maintenance journey - from the first Maintenance Professional of the Year, 2001 I had always wanted to work in manufacturing, to help make something of value. For me, this naturally eliminated career choices such as banking, the city, or law. And so, having a practical bent, I chose engineering.
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	Day release not an option?
	Spyder DN36 Remote Machine Monitoring
	CMMS Work Scheduling
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	Constant Vigilance the best way to spot trouble before it arrives
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	MAINTEC still a mainstay for industry professional The only dedicated UK event of its kind, MAINTEC has acted as a launch pad for technical innovation and a valuable networking opportunity for industry professionals for more than three decades. And now, in its 33rd year, the March 11-13 show is expected to set new records both in terms of visitor numbers and expert exhibitors.
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	Remote Condition Monitoring gives your machines an extra lease of life
	Vibration Monitoring You Can Reply On
	The Instrument Centre
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	How clean is your oil - good enough to eat? Lubricants are the life-blood of any industrial plant and in the same way that blood analysis can tell us vital information about our body and health, lubrication analysis can give an insight to the operational health of plant equipment. In parallel, in the comparable way that blood needs to be regularly cleansed, so lubricants can also benefit from regular cleaning.
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	Precision shaft alignment pays
	Reduced Costs + Increased Efficiency + Decresed Downtime = Enhanced Profits
	Self-Contained Automatic Lubricators
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	Rocol The Safe Option
	Saving costs by setting the right routes
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	Can you prove that maintenance standards are being followed?
	Your plant maintenance picture isn't complete without us
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	Moving Towards a Total EAM Approach While the acronym EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) may only recently have risen to ascendancy in the IT/business management pantheon, the underlying concept of managing the physical assets of a business is as old as business itself. From land/farm managers of ancient estates through Victorian railway manufacturers to modern utility companies, the task of maximising the efficiency and value of distributed assets is central to success.
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	Pocket VibrA Vibration analysis made easy!
	Your One Stop Shop For Engineering Excellence
	Solve a complex task reliably and easily!
	Bolt Securing System
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	AIRConnect remote compressor monitoring
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	Product Review - On top of difficult water applications Imagine, you have to measure the flow of liquid through a pipeline, the pipe is over a metre in diameter, you can only gain access to the top of it and, then, only via a narrow pit in the ground.
	Product Review - CM with Fluke's Logging Multimeter and Software Fluke is offering a money-saving Fluke 289/FVF Combo Kit which bundles FlukeView? Forms software with the latest Fluke 289 true-rms Industrial Logging Multimeter for diagnosing problems in electronics, plant automation, power distribution and electromechanical equipment.
	Product Review - Sensonics Success in China Sensonics Ltd recently exhibited at the Miconex 2007 Fair in Shanghai. Orders were successfully secured at the show for the company?s robust PZ Velocity Transducers said by Sensonics to be especially suited to the power generation industry, where many of the enquiries originated. Interest was also notably high with regard to the Sensonics range of DN monitoring products and in particular their DN2601 dual channel, vibration (or vibration and temperature) alarm monitors.
	Product Review - Weblight Limited Acquire Franchise for TEGG Electrical Preventative... Weblight Ltd, a leading independent lighting solutions company, is pleased to announce their affiliation with the US-based TEGG Electrical Preventive Maintenance Services organization.
	Product Review - Spill Doctor - A new remedy for the workplace The Spill Doctor? spill kit from Empteezy delivers the ultimate features in its field, combining a lid that can either be hinged open or completely removed at the flick of a catch and security tag/padlock holes that help ensure the contents are always secure and available
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	Concept Computerised Maintenance Management Systems
	Your inefficient Motors are Wasting Money
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	Maintenance & Asset Management Journal - Editorial It is with no small sense of loss that we have to record the passing, in its quarterly, standalone format at least, of our specialist, subscription Journal, Maintenance and Asset Management. After twenty two years of waving the flag for what we have hoped has been a more thoughtful (but not too analytical) approach to reporting new ideas, techniques and achievements in the activities indicated by its title we have decided that a change in format is called for.
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	Performance Benchmarking Update: Expectations and Reality The authors draw on their extensive experience in the benchmarking of significant aspects of the performance of companies ? large and small and world-wide ? to highlight not only the striking differences that they have observed in reliability achievement and in maintenance organisation but also the reasons for the clear relationship between these two factors. They conclude that ?best-of-class companies? share a large number of sound work practices, reliability engineering implementation concepts, and organisational alignments and list what they see to be the most significant of the reliability and maintenance attributes that are shared by such companies.
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	Together, we can offer the right diagnosis and administer the most effective solution
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	Improving the reliability of a Coal Fired Power Plant using a SAP - REWOP Interface In the search for improved performance of the management of its physical assets, a major Canadian-based power generation company sought to exploit the benefits of good reliability and maintenance information practices. Specifically, they wished to increase the value derived from the investment made in their SAP PM (Systems, Applications and Products: Plant Maintenance) system. By interfacing REWOP (Reliability Engineering Workbench Optimiser) with their SAP work order module, maintenance engineers and technicians can now accurately and easily analyse historical data. This, plus the adoption of a common language for potential and functional failures, is leading to greatly improved maintenance, inspection and decision-making techniques. In turn this is resulting in increased reliability, fewer failures and reduced maintenance costs.
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	Discover your hidden factory
	Euromaintenance 2008
	Microlog - MX Series (SKF)
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	Product Review - Wireless Alignment System Fixturlaser XA, the express wireless alignment system from Fixturlaser AB, now features several technology novelties.
	Product Review - Low-cost Shock and Vibration Monitoring Series 660 low-cost embeddable accelerometers from the IMI Sensors division of PCB Piezotronics are ideal for continuous shock and vibration monitoring in high volume and commercial OEM applications.
	Product Review - Trevor Baylis OBE Presents Industry Award To young, Imperial College... British inventor, Trevor Baylis OBE, officiated at the Institute of Acoustics 2007 Awards dinner on 17 October in Oxford. Young acoustician Frederic Cegla, from Imperial College in London, was recognised in the IOA?s 2007 Young Persons? Awards for Innovation in Acoustical Engineering.
	Product Review - New Generation of Chopper Pumps Breakdowns and flooding caused by fibrous waste clogging pump impellers could be a thing of the past, thanks to several breakthrough technical and advanced engineering solutions from pump manufacturer, ITT Flygt.
	Product Review - Connectors for Harsh Industrial Environments New from franchised assembling distributor PEI-Genesis is the Amphenol Barracuda range of IP68 sealed connectors, which have been specifically designed for use in harsh industrial applications where water, dust or spray may be a problem
	Product Review - Follow the Guide Monitran launches its easy-to-use product guide for general and special purpose vibration sensors.
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	The Green Steam Company
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	Gasification more than hot air As the world?s fossil fuel gauge inexorably drops ever closer to reading empty, the search for alternative energy sources continues to gather momentum. The most visible and high profile of these tends to be wind power, courtesy of the growing number of wind turbines on and off-shore around the country, including David Cameron?s roof.
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	Boiler Projects - Where will your focus be?
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	Energy is too expensive to waste
	Automated Meter Reading via Power Line
	Total automation of water treatment systems for boilers and engine cooling systems
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	It was my company that wanted to measure its carbon footprint
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	Fantasy island? Earlier this year, the UK Government pressed the Nuclear button labelled ?safe and affordable? committing the UK to a new generation of nuclear power stations ? the first of which Business Secretary John Hutton hoped would be completed ?well before 2020?. While many may view the idea of the UK becoming a more nuclear dependent island as a nightmare, how about this as a more appealing alternative?
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	Stay weatherproof
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	Not if, when when the floods come While the Pitt Review just before Christmas 07, provided a timely reminder of the human cost to families and individuals of the year?s unprecedented flooding, it is worth remembering that many businesses are also still struggling to recover.
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	PCMS Intelligent Maintenance
	Air condition, heating and ventilation specialists
	Clear the Air
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	How to achieve an energy-efficient compressed air system - part 1 Compressed air systems are safe, reliable and versatile, but they are often taken for granted with scant regard to cost. An essential resource for industry, business and the public sector, compressed air is often referred to as the fourth utility after electricity, gas and water.
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	Heat For Hire
	100% Oil Free Air Compressors
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	The Advantages of Adhesives Colin Chapman of Henkel ? maker of Loctite brand products ? explains why adhesives are gaining more converts among maintenance people.
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	Industrial Floors... Repair or Renewal - We Have the Answers
	Helping You Solve Your Energy Requirements
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	Cost Effective Repair Options to Extend the Life of Your Existing Plant
	Hose & Coupling Solutions for all Industries
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	Premier SOLIDS show goes green For the first time, this year?s easyFairs? SOLIDS exposition will feature a special forum devoted to environmental compliance ? a key consideration for operators in today?s eco-wary climate.
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	Product Review - Guyson Cleans Off Saw Blades and Wood Cutters After prolonged use cutting wood, saw blades experience a build up of pitch, sap, resin and other wood-based materials that stick to the teeth and blade body
	Product Review - Relaunch of Rummage Tool Kit Allen-Vanguard has re-launched its basic kit for rummage operations. The Rummage Tool Kit is specifically designed to help customs professionals carry out their search operations effectively and efficiently.
	Product Review - Troax Launches Smart Fix - a flexible machine fencing system A new versatile, modular machine safety fencing system, which incorporates a number of innovative design features.
	Product Review - Pulsar 'Assessor' Sound Meters Pulsar Instruments has always led the fight against complexity in noise measurements; simply because most sound level meter users are not acoustic specialists. What most industrial users want is to measure workplace noise to the legal standards with an instrument they can be sure is accurate.
	Product Review - Ron Wilson Takes the Helm at Exide Ron Wilson is well known to the materials handling market, having worked for CMP Batteries for 14 years ? first as a Divisional Manager and then as National Aftermarket Sales Manager. He has now been appointed National Field Sales Manager, overseeing the activity of the UK Key Account Sales Team.
	Product Review - Crawford UK Supply Largest Distribution Centre When Tolent Construction, the contractor for the 750,000 sq ft Nimbus Park distribution Centre (the largest in the UK) needed a supplier for the door and docking systems, they had no hesitation in choosing Crawford UK
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	Dura Tread Anti-slip Fibreglass Floor Grating
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	Product Review - Free Rigger Gloves From ESAB With over 100 years of experience and a presence in over 80 countries, ESAB is the most recognised brand in welding and cutting. Personal protection equipment, welding tools and accessories make up a key part of its product portfolio and a new guide to the range has just been published.
	Product Review - Top Safety Accreditation for ELGA Process Water ELGA Process Water recently received accreditation from the SAFEcontractor programme, which recognises very high standards of health and safety practice amongst UK contractors.
	Product Review - Extended 2-12 year warranty for 'Dosebadge' Cirrus Research design and develop noise measurement equipment for industry and has recently extended the warranty on its doseBadge personal noise dosemeter.
	Product Review - Jaguar Protects Workers With Troax Safety Screens Jaguar is protecting staff in the logistics warehouse of its Castle Bromwich manufacturing centre using pallet rack safety screens.
	Product Review - Neil Davis Appointed to Vice President UK and BeNeLux
	Nationwide Access Powers up the Power Tower The Power Tower is a push around, ultra lightweight machine at only 315kg - the perfect alternative to aluminium towers and ladders. Ideal for mezzanine floors, it is manually manoeuvred into place. It is a compact machine at only 0.79m wide, fits easily through a standard doorway, with a SWL of 227kg. The Power Tower could replace the traditional smaller aluminium towers used everywhere from factories to hospitals.
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	Composite Safety and Access Solutions
	Plant Maintenance Management Set
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