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	Mar-Apr 2009
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	Talking Shop It was interesting to observe the first meeting between Brown and Obama, especially as in the UK at least, pressure is mounting on the prime minister to not only acknowledge his own role in the current economic crisis but also to say sorry.
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	Disconnecting Electrical Equipment Quickly and Safely Electrical equipment used in manufacturing plants is often hard-wired via a terminal box or enclosure. When this equipment requires routine maintenance or has suffered a breakdown electrical protocols for making safe prior to repair work must be followed.
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	PAS 55 Certificate awarded to power generation company Lloyd?s Register EMEA has certified ScottishPower Energy Wholesale Ltd, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Group, against the revised version of BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55-1:2008) following a stringent process of assessment which benchmarks best practice in asset management.
	Alpha Electronics moves to new premises; and achieves UKAS Accreditation Alpha Electronics, the specialist, nationwide distributor of handheld and portable electrical and electronic test equipment from all the major manufacturers, has integrated its southern sales, hire, training, calibration and repair operations into new, enlarged premises in Maidstone, Kent.
	Artesis partners with Invensys - predictive maintenance solutions for total asset management Artesis, who supply intelligent predictive maintenance solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Invensys Process Systems (IPS).
	Don't compromise on the quality of oil products during recession For over 100 years Millers Oils has produced high quality lubricants and metalworking fluids for all sectors of the engineering and manufacturing industries.
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	Engineers vote Atlas Copco Compressor Best Product A 6000-strong panel, consisting mainly of production and process engineers, has voted Atlas Copco Compressors? new GA 90-160 kW range its favourite new product of 2008.
	Trusted trader scheme Boge has become one of the first compressor manufacturers to participate in the independently administered Trusted Trader Scheme (TTS) initiative developed by the British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) and Referenceline.
	Compressed air energy cost savings With factory electricity bills soaring and a likely need for companies to account for energy use in their annual reports, new software from Parker Legris, the Transair Energy Efficiency Calculator, demonstrates that major cost savings can be made by using Transair compressed air pipework in preference to galvanised steel.
	Keep an eye on all your equipment
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	In-House or Outsourced? Last issue we looked at how Phil Wolff and HSS Tool Hire maintains tools and machinery for businesses across the UK. This month we take that one step further and focus on the growing trend of outsourced facilities and maintenance management. Freidman may be a relatively new company but with a growing client list including Coca Cola Enterprises, GE Transportation, Cushman and Wakefield, and GlaxoSmithKline, they clearly are successfully meeting a need. John Ellis, founder and Managing Director, would put this down to the 100+ years of maintenance experience within the company. I?d add that a great deal may also rest on his genuine passion as an engineer for maintenance as a discipline.
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	Over 80% of hydraulic component failures are caused by dirty oil
	Maintenance software just got easier
	When your factory has stopped. Every second counts
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	Hydraulic Power - distributed or centralised? After hundreds of years of use, hydraulic power is still unsurpassed as a compact, robust and reliable method for delivering high forces and precise control.
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	Pirana CMMS - Supremely easy software
	An enterprising company knows that improving asset management...improves their efforts...
	A comprehensive business system for facilities and maintenance management
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	How to prepare for and recover from catastrophic failure, and other disasters Whether you blame global warming, the rising complexity of assets, our growing dependency on technology, or aging equipment, it appears that the frequency and impact of catastrophic failure due to natural and man-made causes is on the rise.
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	Quality Engineering? Prove it! The challenge facing many engineering companies is not just the need to achieve a certain quality standard but to demonstrate that such quality standards have been consistently achieved across the entire manufacturing/engineering process.
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	Total quality control solutions where you need us most - everywhere
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	Your Inefficient Motors are Wasting Money
	For press-formed valves and diverters
	Ensure your plant is working as reliably, as productively and as cost effectively as possible
	The Greasomatic '96 Automatic Lubricator
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	Maintenance North West - A Conference and Seminar led Exhibition The event comprises a one-day conference with technical papers and case studies, presented by some of the UK?s leading suppliers of CM, Lubrication, CMMS and Electrical Test Equipment, alonside Maintenance Strategy Implementation Specialists.
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	Value Driven Maintenance - The Book
	Take the Fluke challenge: request a FREE test-drive today!
	WebHelp - Expanding Internet Solutions
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	Your complete chemical solution
	The right connection for stainless hygienic fittings
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	Open for Business The need to shut down industrial equipment for maintenance has been a bugbear to plant managers for decades.
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	See Page 9 - Hydraulic Power - distributed or centralised?
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	Precision shaft alignment pays
	Vibration Analysis Training
	Stop ignoring the health of your machines!
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	Improved efficiency, reduced downtime, complete confidence
	Where? Here
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	New condition monitoring regime meets with approval Located at Skinningrove in Northern England, the plant is part of the Corus Group and manufactures hot-rolled steel profiles for a wide range of industries, including earthmoving equipment, materials handling, shipbuilding and mining.
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	easyFairs MAINTEC appeal stronger than ever as companies search recession-beating mtce tech
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	Reduce downtime costs!
	Cuts Costs Whilst Increasing Safety
	Industry's preferred maintenance partner
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	See Page 24 - easyFairs MAINTEC appeal stronger than ever....
	Enhance your performance through your people
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	Artesis MCM - Advanced Technology for Simple, Effective Condition Monitoring
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	Increase efficiency with our leading overall equipment effectiveness & maintenance management
	VisIR 640 Infrared Vision
	Reduced Costs! + Increased Efficiency! + Decreased Downtime! = Enhanced Profits
	Dust and Fume Extraction Hoses from Masterflex
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	Product Review - PAS55 and World Class Maintenance PAS55 is the new British Standard Specification covering the management of physical assets throughout their life cycle.
	Product Review - A Comprehensive Business System UltraSys, from Tempus MTAS Ltd, is a comprehensive business system for facilities and maintenance management.
	Product Review - More Success and Less Stress With over 10 000 customers, Shire is the UK?s No 1 provider of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems. Pirana, their new browser-based CMMS, raises the bar for ease of use and affordability.
	Product Review - Advanced Diagnostic Logging Kit The company has also introduced an electronics monitoring Combo Kit (the 287/FVF) comprising a true-rms 287 Electronics Logging Multimeter, FlukeView? Forms software and an 80BK-A Thermocouple probe.
	Product Review - Reducing The Cost of Pressure Calibration Fluke has reduced the price of its 718 1G, 30G, 100G and 300G Pressure Calibrators - from over ?1800, down to ?1470.
	Make complex stuff simple
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	Santon Circuit Breaker Services....Protecting your power
	Keep running with Monitran
	Improved reliability....at your fingertips
	Industrial endoscopes & cameras
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	Product Review - Submersible Vibration Sensors Hansford Sensors now offer a range of submersible vibration sensors, which has been specifically designed for operation in partial or complete immersion in water, making them ideal for the monitoring of pumps in a maintenance role.
	Product Review - Most Rugged Tool Case Ever C K tools has extended its 22-strong collection of Tool Systems with the introduction of the rugged Technician?s Tool Case PLUS.
	Product Review - New Oxygen Compound Now in Syringe Form At MAINTEC 2009, Cobas UK introduced their NEW Oxygen compound - now in a syringe form, as well as the standard tape.
	Product Review - My CRC - Removing The Headache From Datasheet Updating H&S Managers know the problems of keeping up with changing workplace laws and it?s no different with maintenance chemicals.
	Product Review - Ideal Pumps For The Food and Beverages Industries Food and beverage industries can now meet their strict hygienic requirements with the cost-effective F&B Hygia, single stage end suction centrifugal pump from Grundfos.
	Product Review - Cost-Effective CBM System Spi-VR? (Spectrum Inspection & Vibration Recorder), from AV Technology, is a powerful tool for improving maintenance efficiency and machine reliability/availability.
	Product Review - The Right Connection Dixon Group Europe can now meet all your hose, hose assembly, fittings and couplings requirements as a single source supplier.
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	Product Review - ABB Network Extends Into NI JJ Loughran has been appointed ABB Motor Service Partner for Northern Ireland, forming part of ABB?s growing service network for full lifecycle support of low voltage AC motors.
	Product Review - Mono Nov Launches Revolutionary Maintain In Place Pump Mono? NOV, who design and manufacture pumps, parts, Munchers?, screens and packaged systems, has launched EZstripTM, a revolutionary new pump, which can be ?Maintained-in-Place?, reducing a day-long maintenance operation to 30 minutes
	Product Review - Reduce Downtime and Improve Productivity & Efficiency System health can be monitored continuously with Arum DataEye?s management dashboard.
	Product Review - Helping BOC Gases Keep Cool and MAINTEC 2009 Prize Draw Winner BOC Gases Ireland had been experiencing recurring failures with the worm and wheel gearbox units for their cooling tower fans, and those failures were proving expensive in terms of repair cost and downtime. Hot on the heels of a successful 3 days at MAINTEC 2009, Hansen Transmissions are pleased to announce that Jon Boyle of Marshalls in Halifax is the lucky winner of their prize draw.
	Product Review - Artesis Targets Generators With New PCM Artesis announces the new and unique Plant Condition Monitor (PCM) solution. Building on the success of its Motor Condition Monitoring system for electric motors, PCM has been specifically developed to work with generators and is ideal for a wide range of applications including turbo alternators, diesel generators and wind turbines.
	Product Review - Integrated Stepper Motor With Encoder An integrated stepper motor and drive (STM23), introduced by motion control specialists Astrosyn Intnl Technology, can be supplied with an encoder fitted to its rear shaft.
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	A complete solution for enterprise asset & computerised maintenance management
	Condition Monitoring...Protect your critical rotating plant
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	Maximise the efficiency of your existing equipment
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	Maintenance & Asset Management Editorial Our last two issues ? the first of this year and the last of 2008 ? were devoted almost solely to condition monitoring techniques (particularly as applied to rotating machinery).
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	Managing and supporting ship availability The method used within the authors? company involved linking together basic functional design tasks to create a process that could be applied by each ship engineering department in a controlled, repeatable and consistent manner.
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	See Page 36 - Managing and supporting ship availability
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	See Page 36 - Managing and supporting ship availability
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	Motivating maintenance craftsmen - do we know what we're doing? Do we really understand what makes maintenance craftsmen tick? After spending over thirty years working with them in a variety of industries and market sectors I have come to the conclusion that the answer is ?No, not really?.
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	See Page 46 - Motivating maintenance craftsmen - do we know what we're doing?
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	See Page 46 - Motivating maintenance craftsmen - do we know what we're doing?
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	Simplify Pipe Joining
	We are specialists in condition based monitoring providing cost effective and professional...
	No more misalignment
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	Perfect for industrial maintenance and utilities applications...
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	Making carbon reduction schemes work for you With two emission-reduction schemes already in place ? the European-wide EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the UK?s Climate Change Agreement scheme, the introduction of the CRC brings yet another trading scheme into an already crowded mix.
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	See Page 51 - Making carbon reduction schemes work for you
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	If all boilers were this efficient my future wouldn't be adrift
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	Advances in boiler technology While fuel was relatively cheap and emissions not high on the agenda, purchase price probably was the most important factor to consider. Many boilers therefore were designed to be small in size with the least steel, tube and insulation possible without greatly affecting reliability and output. This resulted in mediocre efficiency, with higher fuel and power consumption and NOx.
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	Dunphy combustion services from concept to commissioning
	Energy Efficient Combustion Control For Industrial Boilers
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	A measured approach We all know that energy costs are on the rise, but a recent survey by the Engineering Employers? Federation (EEF) says that continuing fuel price escalation is now posing a real threat to the competitiveness of UK industry.
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	Desperate times call for sensible measures
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	Product Review - Out With The Old, In With The New The new ReNew T5 from Chalmor enables existing fluorescent fittings (using T8 and T12 fluorescent tubes) to be upgraded to use high efficiency T5 lamps with the option of using high frequency, multi-wattage, control gear.
	The Green Steam Company
	Product Review - Sembcorp Takes Control With Automatic Pump Traps Two automatic pump traps from Spirax Sarco have helped solve a serious control issue for Sembcorp one of the UK?s leading industrial utilities and services companies.
	Product Review - Plain Steaming With Babcock Wanson Babcock Wanson?s unique BW72H Steam Boiler Control System offers users 72 hours fully approved unattended operation and 30 days uninterrupted steaming along with enhanced system monitoring and security.
	Product Review - Boiler House Turnkey Services Dunphy offers a complete combustion engineering, turnkey project management service from concept to commissioning.
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	Cultivating efficiency gives us our future sustainability
	Lifting Businesses
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	Do you want the lowest possible cost of ownership from your compressed air system? Using original machinery for your business will not only help you avoid costly production downtime, but also allows you to deliver on time and meet the highest quality standards.
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	Pressure without the Pressure...
	Energy efficient cooling of people and buildings
	The cost effective compressed air pipe system
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	Two pipes...two screws...two minutes
	Environmental protection and work safety
	Fluid Carrying Flexibility Swivel Joints
	Why keep learning if you are an expert in your field already?
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	Evaporative Cooling The evaporative cooling element of a ventilation system is simply a wetted filter over which the air flows. As warm air passes over wet filter pads water naturally evaporates into the air. The air is cooled as it gives up the heat required to evaporate the water. This is evaporative cooling or ?adiabatic cooling?.
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	How roofing technologies will help us keep our cool Within the world of maintenance and engineering one area which will become increasingly important is that of roofing, specifically the role roofing plays in the general energy efficiency of a building.
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	Promotional Business Gifts
	Do you have a flooring problem?
	Providing Practical Engineering Skills Training For Industry
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	Product Review - New Business Development Manager Beko Technologies has appointed Brian Gair as their new Business Development Manager to promote Beko services and products within the UK.
	Product Review - New 100W LED Luminaire Outshines 250W HPS Using only 100W per fixture, Dialight?s SafeSite? 250 Series can replace 250W HPS fixtures to offer 60% power savings.
	Product Review - Heavy Duty AirPack System from Draeger The Draeger Personal Airline System, (PAS) AirPack 1 and 2 heavy duty Airline Apparatus, is ideal for use in any application requiring extended duration breathing air.
	Product Review - Knee & Elbow Protection Comprehensive range to suit every application. Ergonomic design. Comfortable and secure fit
	Product Review - NFS Helps Protect Saint Gobain Glass Factory Saint Gobain Glass UK operates a float glass manufacturing plant in Eggborough, near Selby, North Yorkshire and because the company cares so passionately about quality, when it came to the design and installation of a fire suppression system to help protect its flagship factory, it turned to the UK?s leading solutions provider, Nobel Fire Systems.
	Product Review - Something For The Weekend Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services, a division of Vp PLC, needed to upgrade the compressed air system in their workshop in Great Yarmouth.
	Product Review - RCM Masterclass The Reliability Centred Maintenance MasterClass is an improvement programme combining the principals of RCM with Lean Manufacturing practices.
	Product Review - Ice Cold Over Heathrow Keeping air traffic moving in winter relies on spraying de-icer solution onto aeroplane wings, and BAA?s Terminal 5 has one of the world?s most sophisticated systems, the softened water for which is supplied from an ELGA Process Water treatment plant.
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	Product Review - A Versatile Work Platform The Lobo System is a versatile work platform product that combines the flexibility and strength of traditional scaffolding with the simplicity and mobility of tower systems.
	Product Review - Scientific Matting Gives Static Protection London?s Science Museum is one of the latest high profile facilities to protect the public from any potential unpleasant effects of static discharge from interactive displays by installing Vynastat electro-static discharge (ESD) matting from Plastic Extruders.
	Product Review - Improving The Performance of Road Maintenance Vehicles The IQAN hydraulic control system, from Parker Hannifin is being used by a road maintenance equipment manufacturer to optimise production costs and improve vehicle functionality.
	Product Review - Expanded Steam System Training Schedule For 2009 The full range of Spirax Sarco?s 2009 training courses is described in their 2009 ?Steam System Training? brochure.