Reflecting its radical approach, a search for up to 75 ambitious young adults has been launched by NMiTE (www.nmite.org.uk), the future engineering university being created in Hereford, to spend their gap year creating the country's most innovative student experience.

It is open to anyone aged 18 or over who is currently planning a gap year before university or after graduating (not necessarily in engineering). They will be helping co-create everything from the facilities to the student experience of the first new university in Britain for over 40 years.  

Professor Helen Rogers, the Design Cohort lead at NMiTE, said: "NMiTE is effectively offering 75 young adults the unique opportunity to play Sim City in real life, with university facilities being designed and built around them based on their ideas, research and input.

Summer festival season, and for many, time for nothing better than a pint of real ale to quench the thirst. But when demand is high it’s especially important for the busy bartender to know when the gravity fed cask is nearing empty.  
 
No one wants to serve, or be served, a glassful of sediment so the traditional prevention methods are to manually record the number of units dispensed from the cask coupled with dipstick testing to double-check the level.  This is laborious and time consuming and certainly not ideal when there are queues of thirsty customers waiting to be served.
 
One solution that is proving increasingly popular is thermal imaging.  This technology is extensively used throughout industry in all manner of fault finding applications as well as for inspecting vessels and monitoring their content level.  Until recently, however, the cost of an infrared camera has ruled out its use for niche applications such as commercial beer cask checking.
 
FLIR Systems has been instrumental in rolling out the technology to a much wider audience with the development of its Lepton® micro-detector which is the size of a SIM card.  This has led to thermal imaging being incorporated into meters for the trades and even smartphones.  And as a result it is now a simple, quick and highly cost-effective detection method that recently proved its worth at the Cambridge Beer Festival.
 
Thermal imaging expert, Allister Pirrie – a thermographer with Baldock-based building surveyors Stanburys Limited – was invited to demonstrate the scope of the technology at the event.
 
“I met one of the organisers at a completely unrelated trade show where I was using thermal imaging to confirm the energy efficiency of a new pipe lagging system,” Allister explained.  “A guy in the audience then asked if the camera would be able to detect fluid level in beer casks and I ended up putting the camera through its paces at the festival. The images show how clearly the beer level can be seen in the cask and there is a range of FLIR cameras available from Stanburys suitable for the job including the entry level FLIR C2 and FLIR C3 fully-featured, pocket sized thermal imaging cameras.
 
Another big benefit of thermal imaging is that it is not restricted to a single application. It can also, for example, be used to take a temperature measurement of the beer from the face of the cask or the gas cylinder level on a barbeque.

A skilled engineer in a senior hands-on role, Libby Peacock shares her story to encourage more women and girls to enter the engineering profession.

As Product Manager for Pneumatics at Brammer Buck & Hickman, Libby has around twenty years’ experience in the pneumatics industry. Starting her career in a small engineering company making appointments for the sales team, Libby’s manager encouraged her to cement her on-the-job knowledge by attending night school.   

Valuekeep has been selected as the CMMS solution provider for Ardaunt, a Facilities Management service provider in the UK, to manage the maintenance operations across their multi-site projects.

Ardaunt, a Facilities Management service provider with more than 24 years of experience in the field, found on Valuekeep’s cloud-based CMMS software the best solution for a broader control of corrective and preventive work, as well as the full control over work orders, incidents, costs and materials consumptions across their multi-site projects in the UK.

Today CBMconnect.com goes online as a premier, content-rich, multimedia website serving the industrial CBM professional community with knowledge development and a means to collaborate and contribute.

Mobius Institute, the premier provider of reliability improvement, condition monitoring and vibration analysis training, certification and professional conferences today announced the launch of its content-rich multimedia website; CBM Connect.  CBM Connect (www.cbmconnect.com) serves the industrial professional community as a central CBM resource of high quality videos, articles, podcasts, webinars and training tracks without cost to the subscriber.  CBM Connect's focus of condition monitoring topics include vibration analysis, infrared imaging (IR thermography), oil analysis, wear particle analysis, motor testing, ultrasound analysis, precision lubrication, alignment, balancing, and other precision maintenance techniques.

Compressed air is commonly referred to as the "fourth utility" because it is very common as a resource within manufacturing, mining and processing environments. Employees or contractors in every industrial company or setting are exposed to compressed air's effects regularly and it should be handled with responsibility and care.

Mobius Institute launches plant reliability and performance improvement training and certification to 50 countries that is ISO 17024 accredited, following ISO 18436 and mapped to ISO 55000.

Mobius Institute, the premier provider of reliability improvement, condition monitoring and vibration analysis training & certification today announced the launch of its new Asset Reliability Practitioner (ARP) training and certification program for industrial professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and recognition in plant reliability and performance improvement. The program provides training and certification for the Reliability Program Leader (Category III), the Reliability Engineer (Category II) and the Reliability Advocate (Category I).

It is a well-known fact that many of the most sophisticated electronic, communications, and surveillance systems currently adopted by the mass market had their origins in the military. The Internet is a case in point. This sensible approach to rolling out innovative technologies ensures that all the necessary checks and balances have been conducted before the public is presented with a robust product or service.  

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Genuinely good vibration analysts are worth their weight in gold. But how do you create good vibration analysts?

A good vibration analyst provides an early warning of faults, with a clear statement of what's wrong, what must be done, and the urgency of the required action. Good vibration analysts are accurate and confident.