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Is Your Stockroom Costing Your Business Money

by David Kington

It is becoming increasingly apparent that daily inefficiencies and lack of effective store and stockroom processes is having a major effect on businesses efficiency, leading to continual reduction in business operations, profits and tying up capital.

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Is Your Stockroom Costing Your Business Money

by David Kington

It is becoming increasingly apparent that daily inefficiencies and lack of effective store and stockroom processes is having a major effect on businesses efficiency, leading to continual reduction in business operations, profits and tying up capital.

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The Quiet Revolution Starts with SilentSync Belts

by Gareth Lenton

Industrial noise is a Health and Safety issue. We said: INDUSTRIAL NOISE IS A HEALTH & SAFETY ISSUE! And a big contributor to noise are timing belts. But, very quietly, the Conti® SilentSync from ContiTech is changing all that – as well as reducing vibration, increasing efficiency, and cutting system costs. 

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Separating Frack from Friction

by Richard Ludlam

There's an area where fracking is really going off the seismic scale - and it can be witnessed whenever the opposing forces of its anti and pro lobbies clash.

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Supply chain disruption is driving reshoring. But are we ready?

by Richard Ludlam

The trend towards reshoring has been growing for some time.  It was initially prompted by Brexit, combined with a decline in the value of the pound, tariff disputes, geopolitical uncertainty and climate change.  The Covid-19 pandemic, however, which has caused major disruption to global supply chains, has forced many manufacturing companies to take a long hard look at how and where they produce products and systems.

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SmartCheck Condition Monitoring in the Steel Industry

by James Goodgame

Automotive manufacturers, and the construction and household appliance industries, have a large appetite for coated steel. A major steel producer in France has been doing its best to keep it satisfied, producing over 340,000 tonnes of finished coated steel product every year. What’s prevented them producing even more have been failures of the deflection rolls which support the running of the steel belt through their continuous furnace. 

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How Are Brexit Talks Being Conducted

by Richard Ludlam

Have you wondered how Brexit trade talks are going to be conducted? Are we, for example, going to take a sectoral approach or a broad-brush one-size-fits-all?

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Can Pressure Be Good for Your Motors?

by David Bevilacqua

One of the weakest points of a motor in an aggressive environment is the winding. Once contamination gains ingress it creates a tracking path through the winding which allows a leak to earth and a motor trip. The same can happen in damp conditions even without contamination.

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Hands Up If You're Clear on the New PPE Gloves Regulations

by Paul Skade

There are more PPE gloves than ever available for mechanical and chemical protection. Which can make it difficult to choose the right ones for your particular needs. And just to make things even more complicated, the PPE rules for gloves are changing too. So here’s a timely – and handy – update. 

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How a Brickmaker's Production Was Saved From Hitting the Wall

by James Goodgame

Any catastrophic failure of a production asset is, well, a catastrophe. But when your only back-up option is built to exactly the same design, then that catastrophe becomes a disaster waiting to happen. And where replacing a critical asset is concerned, waiting is something you can’t afford to do.

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