18 www.bfpa.co.uk automotive and trucking industries, the use of telematics can facilitate the continuous monitoring and diagnosis of system faults and performance across a broad range of equipment. All this can be achieved by using a convenient mobile app, email or web portal. This technology has been in operation for several years and it is now becoming more commonly deployed within the fluid power industry. Bringing manufacturing home Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was commonplace to source from overseas, in particular China. Due to China’s strong economic growth and currency gains over the past 10 years, it is now less cost-effective for UK, European or US companies to do this. In addition, with freight and fuel price volatility and the challenges with increased working
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