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	Talking Shop What type of music do you play? Without doubt the most frequently asked question I'm asked when people find out that I'm a singer/songwriter when I'm not writing for Maintenance & Engineering. It's also one of the most frestrating because immediately it reveals the almost inbuilt need we have to categorise and compartmentalise people.
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	Fast lead time from CNES saves Lafarge Cement UK 50 per cent of plant production Whilst conducting an internal maintenance inspection, Lafarge Cement UK found a crack in one of its track rings for the grinding mill tables. The tables hold the mill rollers in place, and act as a vital part in the cement making process. Therefore, a short lead-time was needed to ensure no lost production was incurred, despite it being the Christmas period.
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	What Lies Beneath - Asbestos Still Kills Startling figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal there were 4000 deaths last year due to asbestos and 1000 of these were tradesmen.
	MWH wins UKWIR embodied carbon accounting research project MWH has been awarded a key project by UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) to develop a standardised carbon accounting framework for ?embodied? carbon that will be used by the whole of the UK water industry.
	Getting Lean via Value Driven Maintenance Getting Lean via Value Driven Maintenance. Create value, reduce waste. Warwick Univesity, 17/18 June
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	Constant Vigilance the best way to spot trouble before it arrives
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	My Maintenance - Why settle for RCM alone? As I survey the ubiquitous volumes of maintenance books and journals available today, I am amazed by the large number of supposedly different analytical methodologies that one can choose from when it comes to selecting a suitable tool for Maintenance Strategy Development to apply in any one industrial context. It is true that there are several common themes running through most of the currently available techniques, which should set our minds at ease as maintenance professionals, but it is the differences between these techniques that cause much of the debate and confusion.
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	This should be in Cosmo and Vogue What makes Alice Delahunty special is not that she?s young, articulate, successful ambitious and passionate. It?s what she?s successful in and ambitious and passionate about that causes her to stand out from the prevailing cultural representation of today?s successful businesswoman. Indeed, to see her outside of her hard hat and safety goggles the last thing most people would expect is that Alice is an engineer. With only 5.4% of all UK engineers being women that puts her in fairly rarefied company, but what makes Alice truly unique is that she is the 2007 IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Young Woman Engineer of the Year.
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	Procedures and Documentation Well-documented procedures are an integral part of any maintenance management initiative, especially the implementation of a CMMS. This is because the business case rests with implementation of new processes, not simply upgrading or installing new software.
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	Hydraulics knowledge under Pressure Despite the best attempts of politicians and water companies to educate the masses that leaks are an inevitable and therefore acceptable element of modern life, the reality is that when it comes to hydraulics, leaks are dangerous, costly and potentially lethal. In any closed system such as hydraulics or pneumatics, leaks represent waste and inefficiency, which is why the diverse range of industries that rely on hydraulic power invests heavily in keeping their systems as leak free and efficient as possible.
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	Condition Monitoring based on Acoustic Emission When we talk about machinery condition monitoring, we?re talking about condition in the sense of a machines ability to continue to perform its intended function in an efficient manner. Unfortunately there is no way to directly measure machine condition and so it is necessary to infer it from indirect measurements. For Condition Monitoring (CM) purposes a range of technologies are available, each having its own strengths and weaknesses, and it is usual to consider each of them as a tool in the CM toolkit.
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	Getting Lean via Value Driven Maintenance The typical customers today demand high availability of products that are adjusted to their specific needs with short delivery times and without accepting less quality or higher costs. To be able to compete in these markets and in the global economy many companies are now moving to ?Lean Manufacturing?. But what is ?getting lean? exactly and how does is affect Maintenance, how can Maintenance contribute to it and how to derive the maintenance strategy from it? Many maintenance managers are struggling with those questions in daily practice. Is ?Lean? just a set of well known best practices that are now suddenly tagged and hyped as being ?lean? or are there actually maintenance management methodologies available that really link up with lean thinking? Well, that methodology is available today, it?s Value Driven Maintenance?.
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	Remote Condition Monitoring gives your machines an extra lease of life
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	Across Industry - Kluber Lubrication Asset Support Service
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	The Quality of Maintenance All organisations, whether industrial or commercial, strive to provide a product or service which is in line with customer expectations. The degree to which this objective is achieved is a measure or the ?quality? of the product or service. However, the perception gained of the ?finish? of a product by looking at the outside gloss does nothing to ensure that quality has been added in depth or in reliability during the making of the product. Inspection alone is viewed as inadequate and customers now look for a planned and systematic approach to imparting and measuring that addition of quality, particularly those customers who have taken this line within their own methods of working.
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	easyFairs MAINTEC 2008 Review For the first time easyFairs?MAINTEC 2008 (11-13 March) was co-located alongside easyFairs?SOLIDS - the UK?s only show dedicated to the solids processing, handling and storage sector ? and the Industrial Environment Forum.
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	Maintenance & Asset Management Journal - Editorial There can be very few in the industrial maintenance fraternity who would not agree that pro-active maintenance of plant, or its dominant sub-set, condition based maintenance, will nearly always turn out to be the economically optimum policy ? an RCM analysis, for example, has a built-in tendency to preferentially direct the planner towards such an approach.
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	Predictive Maintenance by Performance Monitoring of Plant Much is written about the condition monitoring methods of vibration analysis, oil analysis, NDT methods, and electrical plant tests, but very little about performance analysis, i.e. the analysis and monitoring of the physical performance of both rotating and non-rotating plant items as an indicator of their condition. Performance analysis also often enables the optimum time to be found to schedule maintenance to restore lost performance. Based on his many years of experience in fossil fired steam power generation, the author demonstrates ? via case studies on pumps, air compressors, steam turbines, mechanical control system components, boilers and heat exchangers ? the application of this methodology.
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	Journal Vol 21, No - A Mobile Maintenance Decision Support System The development is reported of an e-maintenance system, ie a mobile maintenance decision support system based on web and mobile technologies. The problem of the lack of experts to troubleshoot a fault in a machine is a long-standing one. It has led to the application of artificial intelligence and, later, distributed artificial intelligence for machine condition monitoring and diagnosis.
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	Product Review - Miyachi Consolidates European Businesses Miyachi Corporation, Tokyo, has announced a consolidation of its four micro-connection businesses. A single corporation will now serve the European market, resulting in a new, unified source for four market-leading ranges of micro-connection products, and simplified engineering support and procurement that builds on 100 years of leadership in innovation.
	Product Review - Fuchs UK Launches New Range of Metalworking Fluids Richard Rogers, Industrial Product Manager at FUCHS UK, explains, ?Our new ECOCOOL ULTRALIFE range represents ?Advanced Coolantology,? a concept that simply explains what we have achieved; innovative coolant technology that satisfies the demands of today?s metalworking industry.
	Product Review - Cooling Fan Monitoring Solutions Over 5200 visitors attended the Powergen Asia exhibition held recently in Bangkok. Many visited the Sensonics stand to view a range of specialist equipment designed to provide vibration, displacement and speed instrumentation solutions for use in demanding power generation environments.
	Product Review - Dry Ice Production and Blasting and New Digital Dry Ice Blasting Machine This new ?COMBI 75? combined dry ice production and blasting machine from IceTech can be set to automatically produce a pre-defined quantity of dry ice pellets, ie the pelletizer unit adapts its output to the dry ice consumption of the blasting unit.
	Product Review - New Thermometers Provide Total Temperature Measurement Solution Fluke has introduced the Fluke 566 and Fluke 568 Thermometers, which feature advanced infrared (IR) temperature measurement functionality, a menu-based user interface and a graphical display to enable users to take even complex measurements quickly and easily and from greater distances.
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	Product Review - Bayonet-Lock Connectors Offer Ip67 Protection Now in stock at franchised assembling distributor PEI-Genesis is the Amphenol 62IP RoHS compliant range of miniature bayonet-lock connectors.
	Product Review - New Compact Vibration Sensors for Plant Protection The HS-130 series of vibration sensors from Hansford Sensors has been designed as a compact device, having a 50% smaller body diameter and weighing just 30 grams.
	Product Review - Magnetic Drive Pump from Grundfos and Grundfos Delivers at Sanofi Aventis Grundfos Pumps have launched a new range of magnetic drive pumps with a motor range up to 22kW. Ideal for pumping dangerous or aggressive liquid, the CRN MAGdrive eliminates the need for shaft seals, with the power from the motor being transmitted to the pump by magnetic force rather than a conventional coupling.
	Product Review - ELGA Maintains BP Reliability BP?s Hull site is the largest manufacturing facility for acetic acid in Europe. Its integrity was threatened when its water treatment plant, M186 which was installed in 1997 to provide feed water to the factory?s 64barg and 45barg steam boilers, began to corrode which threatened the availability of the continuous supply of water to the site?s steam generators.
	Product Review - CCGT Cooling Fan Monitoring Solutions Modern cooling fan arrangements utilised on CCGT power stations are a compact solution for the removal of unwanted energy from the combined cycle process.
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	Carbon Trading: Leaving minimal footprints in the carbon landscape You could be forgiven for being confused about Carbon or Emissions Trading ? essentially the open trading of allowances or quotas of emissions. Despite the UK having had a voluntary Emissions Trading scheme in place for 5 years, the press coverage surrounding this both during and after it came to an end in 2006 was largely missing at best, and critical at worst.
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	Giving Coal the treatment it deserves It would be easy to view coal as yesterday?s fuel ? the fuel of the industrial revolution. It remains however the world?s most abundant traditional fuel to generate electricity. In fact 50% of the electricity in the US and 40% globally comes from coal with consumption of coal for power generation expected to rise from 4.8 billion tonnes to 7 billion tonnes by 2030. And there?s enough to last for the next 250 years or more.
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	Product Review - Minimising Maintenance on Batteries The opening of the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras has received a lot of media attention, but working quietly (literally) behind the scenes is a new fleet of Linde MH equipment powered by Exide Technologies? Sonnenschein Dryfit maintenance-free gel batteries.
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	Product Review - Chergui Onshore Central Processing Facility Motivair Compressors, in conjunction with Petrofac International, have successfully installed and commissioned a triplex, skid mounted instrument compressed air system at the Thyna Petroleum Services project for onshore gas field processing facilities in Tunisia
	Product Review - Protecting Batteries from Damage During Extended Charging PSU manufacturer VxI Power has introduced a new range of battery chargers that have been designed for use in demanding industrial applications
	Product Review - Reduce your Compressed Air System Carbon Footprint An energy management system from domnick hunter can save power during the drying of compressed air and, for a limited period in the UK, the company is fitting it?s Dewpoint Dependent Switching (DDS) system free of charge on all new orders for PNEUDRI MIDI-PLUS, MX heatless and MAXI heat regenerative desiccant dryers.
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	Different ways to get the waste you want On average, each person in the UK produces 150 litres of wastewater containing 55g of biosolids per day. This is treated by approximately 9000 wastewater treatment centres typically through 3 key stages following appropriate screening. These stages include (1) Settlement, (2) Biological Treatment via a range of possible methods and (3) Tertiary treatments whereby the final discharge destination dictates any so called ?fine tuning? treatments. In addition to treated water, the process generates sludge as a by-product that consists of raw primary and secondary sludge, both of which must be treated before recycling or disposal with the degree of treatment dependent again on the intended final use.
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	How to achieve an energy efficient compressed air system - part 2 3 years ago BCAS developed a project with the Carbon Trust to provide credible and impartial advice on Surveys and Audits to end-users. Any compressed air supplier or a consultant who is listed on the compressed air audits website www.compressedairsystemaudits.org will be able to assist you in obtaining more accurate costs and a demand profile.
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	Too close for comfort The Chartered Institution of Building Services and Engineers (CIBSE) recommends an ideal relative humidity (RH) of 50% in terms of providing comfort for workers. There is however no current legislation concerning RH levels for work which perhaps reflects the widespread misunderstanding that exists within industry about the importance of RH.
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	Top Tips for Buying a Used Forklift So what are the pitfalls when buying or renting a second hand lift truck? Barloworld Handling, one of the UK?s largest suppliers of quality used lift trucks, provides some top tips to help you drive safely through the ?used truck? minefield.
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	Getting to Grips with High Level Loading Safety While the latest HSE figures showing a record low of 45 fatalities for people who fell from a height at work (06/07) are a cause for celebration, there is still much room for improvement. This is all the more apparent when you consider that 3351 people suffered serious injury in the previous year as a result from falling from a height at work. This is despite of much tougher ?Work at Height? legislation introduced in April 2005 which placed more emphasis on a corporate or collective attitude to accident prevention as opposed to individual worker protection.
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	Remember that Christmas Packaging? I don?t know about you but having just had Easter, Christmas seems a lifetime ago. The presents have long stopped being played with and all that Christmas packaging is now thankfully long gone. But gone where? According to the last government statistics in 2002/3 it takes its place as part of the 100 million tonnes of domestic and commercial waste generated every year in the UK. That?s waste destined for recycling or more likely, for disposal in landfill sites with all the environmental consequences we?ve rightly become more concerned about.
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	Death and Public Humiliation! Getting tough on H&S A cartoon in ?Private Eye? magazine a few years ago entitled: ?Director with responsibility for going to jail? will have raised a wry smile on many health and safety manager?s faces. It also illustrated the more serious point that pressure was being brought on organisations to improve health and safety from a variety of sources, not least legal. The latest piece of legislation which has a potential for a substantial effect on the way businesses manage health and safety comes in the shape of the new offence of corporate manslaughter, in force from 6 April 2008. There will be even greater scrutiny of health and safety, meaning organisations need to take careful stock of existing arrangements.
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	Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act
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	Product Review - Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Look to the skies with Alto Towers dro Aluminium Extrusion is assisting Alto Towers in creating a range of specialist aircraft maintenance equipment following several requests for Alto to adapt their standard scaffold products to suit the aviation industry.
	Product Review - Densoclad Protection for Cheshire Brinefield Murphy Pipelines Ltd (part of the John Murphy Group) are carrying out Phase 3 of a new development project for Ineos Enterprises Ltd at the Holford Brinefield in Cheshire.
	Product Review - An Efficient, Safe and Reliable Loading Bay Pressure has never been greater for businesses to perform efficiently and at speed. With the time constraints you have to work within, the last thing needed is a breakdown in your loading bay. If you can?t get raw materials into the production cycle, you can?t take finished goods away
	Product Review - New Features and a 12-year Guarantee for Sound Level Meters Cirrus Research UK, with over 30 years? experience in the design and manufacture of noise measurement instruments, has upgraded its high performance CR:800C series of sound level meters, to include a wide range of new features and functions
	Product Review - Eliminating Concerns Over Damaged or Leaking Containment Areas For over 55 years, Belzona has been supplying protective coatings and repair composites, and supporting customers by applying its polymer technology to problems of pollution control.
	Product Review - New Septron Line from Christ Water Technology Group The new Septron Line series makes it possible to produce ultrapure water in various qualities and quantities, with models 10-20 and 25-60 complying with the current standards laid down by ISO, CAP and ASTM.
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	Product Review - Deborah Services turns to Layher to maximise Scaffold Performance at Drax Deborah Services Ltd. has completed a major installation of Layher system scaffolding at the Drax coal-fired power station for the regular outage work on the station?s boilers.
	Product Review - Imporved Microbiological Safety for Water Softeners Water softeners are needed as pre-treatment stages for pure-water generation systems, but they also harbour a risk: their ion-exchange resins offer a large surface area for microbial growth.
	Product Review - Denso Protection for West Wales Road Bridge Pembrokeshire County Council?s Highways Engineers carry out an annual inspection of the thirty-year-old Cleddau Bridge on the A477 from Pembroke to Milford Haven.
	Product Review - New Pulsar Acoustic Toolbox Software Pulsar Instruments have added to the capablilities of the Model 33 Real Time Sound Level Meter with its new ?Acoustic Toolbox? analysis software - supplied as standard with all Models 30 and 33.
	Product Review - New Hangar Doors at Galway Airport Two new hangars have recently been installed at Galway Airport for Aer Arran, but one of the trickiest decisions was to find hangar doors which would meet the tough, coastal conditions.
	Product Review - Quicker Response through Wireless Communications On-site wireless communication platforms from Ascom Wireless Solutions, offer a totally integrated approach both to the management of manufacturing and process operations and the staff involved.