A power supply is a power supply, right? No wrong. The Omron S8VK-X is different; it’s about the future. In this blog article, Omron S8VK-X: More Power than a Power Supply, we take a…
Maintenance News & Insights
Thermal Management offers a cool way of Reducing Machinery Downtime
Reliable electrical control and distribution equipment is essential for business users and maintaining this supply is critical. The thermal management of control panels is a critical factor for performance, reliability, and safety of industrial…
Automatic Enclosure Climate Control Minimises Production Downtime
Production downtime can be extremely costly, potentially resulting in losses of hundreds of thousands of pounds per hour for major manufacturers. The overheating of electrical cabinets is a significant factor in the reliability of…
Brainboxes UK Stock, Sales & Support Agreement Confirmed
BPX are thrilled to announce an agreement with connectivity specialists Brainboxes Ltd to stock, sell and support their range of industrial communication devices in the UK.
Brainboxes smart hardware enables machine monitoring, connects industrial IOT…
What is the new Sick Monitoring Box all about?
Unplanned downtime is by its nature unpredictable, as well as expensive. For many producers, it results in lost production, scrap materials, missed deadlines and emergency repairs. One way to help predict problems is by…
How is Secure Remote Access Transforming Manufacturing?
The collaboration between Advantech and Secomea illustrates the benefits that secure remote access delivers for remote maintenance users. Remote applications provide corrective, preventative, and predictive maintenance to address all aspects of remote machine servicing…
Cable insulation monitoring improves preventive maintenance
What happens in your plant when cable insulation fails? The answer is anything from a difficult to find intermittent fault, to a major shutdown or even a fire. Using PLC based cable insulation monitoring…
Acheiving profitable reliability from IIoT
Finding ways to improve operational profitability is not a new topic. If you have not already started down this road, there will be opportunities wherever you look. But if you have been working on…
Prescriptive Maintenance: Going Beyond Condition Monitoring
In a recent white paper discussing profitable reliability, Schneider Electric identifies four levels of maintenance from reactive through to prescriptive maintenance. Prescriptive maintenance uses information from predictive maintenance tools…
