Condition monitoring is a proven, valuable tool for optimising maintenance strategies. Ian Liebler, Rockwell Automation integrated conditioning monitoring solutions architect, explains how integrated condition monitoring can provide even greater production and maintenance efficiencies through streamlining real-time information flow.

Safety has become be a key focus for every business - as important as meeting financial objectives. Strategies that make risk assessment an intuitive part of the job and which encourage personal responsibility are crucial in fostering a culture of continual improvement of safe working practices.

The European Commission has extended the deadline for the transition from standard EN 954-1 to standards EN ISO 13849-1 and EN/IEC 62061. Rockwell Automation Area Manager - Safety, Gary Milburn, explores the implications to Australia’s industrial community.

The processing industries naturally lend themselves to a variety of categories - high risk, high expense and capital intensive, just to name a few. However, it’s becoming apparent across industry that many processing organisations are limited by their knowledge of what is happening on the floor - where their assets are, how well maintained they are and whether they are being utilised to their fullest.

Measurement at high pressure needs heavy-duty metering.

Process measurements are instantaneous but analyser responses never are. From the tap to the analyser, there is always a time delay. Unfortunately, this delay is often underestimated or misunderstood.

The Patrick Autostrad Terminal at Brisbane is now benefitting from remote control via industrial ethernet technology.

The most important target for every plant manager is to keep the plant running and maximise production. A plant should be run as cost efficiently as possible, but without compromising safety.

The ZS range of energy-saving screw blowers is suitable for air-blowing applications. According to Atlas Copco, screw technology on average is 30% more energy efficient compared to lobe technology and the company is convinced that the lobe technology, widely used at present, no longer meets the needs of today’s low carbon economy.

A three-axis motion platform, based on Baldor Electric Company’s ethernet-compatible drives, is helping to further increase the realism of crane training experience.

Air traffic across Europe was halted in April as ash from an Icelandic volcano drifted towards the continent. Scientists in London discuss the technical reasons for this disruption.

The presence of harmonics can drastically alter the quality of the power provided to electrical systems and may affect equipment on that supply. Peter Tomazic, Solution Consultant for the Systems and Solutions business of Rockwell Automation, explains how harmonics are generated, why they are a problem and discusses various engineered solutions that can mitigate their effects.

Nucleonic gauges can be found everywhere where extreme conditions would mean the end for any other measurement technology. That’s because nucleonic devices measure contactlessly, which makes the measuring systems wear free and practically maintenance free as well. However, since this technology uses radioactive radiation, safety is the top priority.

With an annual production capacity of approximately one million tonnes, Jura Cement is Switzerland’s second largest cement producer and is part of Jura-Holding. Jura Cement’s plants in Wildegg and Cornaux produce high-quality cement for different fields of application.

An Australian waste sortation specialist has devised a turnkey system for councils and regional bodies that uses automated primary sortation as a fast starting point to separate different types of waste.