Around the Industry

Weldability-Sif has helped to provide a college with a new training facility that is giving young people a fresh look at the manufacturing industry.

Optical Surfaces Ltd has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Laser 2000 GmbH to help expand sales and local support for its high precision optical components, mounted optical components and systems.

Professional pipe markers can act as a live blueprint for a plant, assisting engineers in deciding where and when to intervene. When implemented well, employees and contractors can use pipe markers as a guide and will get insight into how your plant works in the blink of an eye. Brady offers compliant and durable professional pipe markers, adaptable to any standard no matter if it is company specific or governmental.

Customers of CEM firm Exception EMS will start to reap the rewards of the recently completed first phase of the implementation of FactoryLogix, a manufacturing execution system from Aegis. After a careful selection process Exception EMS is investing over £300k in an improved production system based around the Aegis FactoryLogix platform. This will give Exception EMS the ability to have improved processes controls, real time insights on production throughput and yield information, as well as feedback to allow improvements to the quoting procedures and giving more exact timings on deliverables.

At OTC 2015, Parker will unveil new solutions for building tubing systems capable of meeting the immense challenges posed by higher pressures and corrosion mechanisms as oil and gas exploration and production moves into deeper offshore environments. The new technology will evolve the well-known ranges of small-bore tube fittings and valves from the Instrumentation Products Division of Parker Hannifin - the global leader in motion and control technologies.

Frost & Sullivan's 'Analysis of the Global Process Gas Compressor Market' finds that the market earned revenues of more than $6bn in 2014 and estimates this to reach $8bn in 2021.

Lockout/Tagout is a life-saver in maintenance operations. With a lockout/tagout programme, industries can prevent a great number of maintenance related accidents from happening, no matter if MRO activities are outsourced or organised internally. While Lockout/Tagout is very successful, it does require intense preparation to implement. Based on worldwide experience, Brady can help implement best practice lockout/tagout programmes.Machine specific procedures One of the biggest challenges in implementing Lockout/Tagout is writing machine-specific procedures that ensure the isolation of the complete energy supply to a specific machine. These procedures need to be complete and understandable and will require internal discussion, approval and communication to employees involved. Brady can send engineers to your workplace to write machine-specific procedure proposals for your evaluation. While writing machine specific lockout procedures based on best practices, Brady engineers will identify all energy supply points to make sure no energy can reach machines under maintenance.

According to the British Automation and Robot Association (BARA), annual sales of industrial robots have met expectations for 2014. The total sales are around 25% lower than the peak in 2012 and 15% lower than 2013, which has been expected following the dramatic surge in sales at that time from the booming automotive sector gearing up with the latest automation technology.

Aiming to unlock new levels of efficiency and low cost for combustion researchers, UK-based Libertine FPE has revealed what it terms a ‘breakthrough linear power technology’. The company says its linear electrical machine and gas expander technologies overcome the key challenges of motion control and power conversion efficiency that have held back free piston engine development until now.

CCE has released an update of its Unified Interop for Parasolid (UIOp) libraries.