T&M and Monitoring

With any unscheduled down-time being a cause of major headaches for food and drink manufacturers, John Rowley of Mitsubishi Electric highlights how predictive maintenance can provide the solution and how easy it is to implement. With food manufacturers being continually squeezed on price by retailers and asked to fulfil orders for supply that can seem, at best, challenging and at worst highly unrealistic, improving productivity is a priority. 

Ashtead Technology has added the Olympus FlexoFORM pipe elbow scanner to its rental fleet of Non Destructive Testing equipment. “This is part of a major investment in our NDT fleet,” said NDT Market Manager Steve Drake. “The FlexoFORM is an extremely important addition because it complements our other pipe inspection equipment and provides a solution for many particularly challenging applications.

Flintec have added the UXT to its well-established family of tension load cells. With OIML and NTEP approval, the UXT is certified for trade weighing applications. Capacities start at 50kg through to 7,500kg, ensuring the UXT is suitable for a vast range of industrial and medical applications.

Flintec have launched the EM100 family of digitising units for general weighing applications such as dynamic, static and high-speed weighing. The EM100 is a precision amplifier manufactured to be embedded directly into a weighing system with multiple configuration options available and plug and play compatibility.

DALI decoding and analysis has been added to the latest version of PicoScope 6 software by Pico Technology. DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) provides two-way communications between lighting fixtures (“luminaires”), ballasts and controllers.

The first digital multimeter (DMM) in its RS PRO product range to feature a built-in thermal imager has been released by RS Components. The RS-9889 thermal imaging multimeter allows engineers to identify thermal overload issues in electrical equipment from a safe distance, without the need for any physical contact.

A pocket-sized thermal imager which targets troubleshooting and precictive maintenance applications for a wide range of industrial sectors is available at RS Components. The PTi120 from Fluke enables maintenance teams to carry out enhanced infrared inspections and make quick temperature scans of electrical equipment, machinery, or specific pumps and motors, thereby helping in the effort to minimise equipment downtime.

A maintenance tool from Fluke that enables the fast detection of compressed air leaks is available in the UK from distributor RS Components. It means maintenance teams can help in the process of improving the reliability of production lines.

Dynamometer systems for engineers required to test and verify the level of efficiency of electric motors in accordance with a variety of national and international standards, including IEC 60034-2-1; IEEE 112B; and Canadian standard C390-93 have been unveiled by SAKOR Technologies.

A differential measurement system, which provides resolution to a nanometer of positional change has been introduced by the Measuring Division of Kaman Precision Products, a supplier of high-performance, precision non-contact position measuring systems.