Buyers Guide 2021

www.pwemag.co.uk The magazine for plant, works and maintenance engineers Annual Buyers’ Guide 2021 T H E I N S T I T U T I O N O F D I A G N O S T I C E N G I N E E R S Welcome to the Plant & Works Engineering 2021 Buyers’ Guide This annual at-a-glance listing is a comprehensive user-friendly and indispensable source for identifying a cross section of industrial products and services. The Guide’s easy-to-use format can provide end-users with contact information for many of the leading suppliers in a particular product or service sector – from condition monitoring right through to boilers, pumps and valves or compressed air. Looking through the following pages you will see many long-established names alongside new comers looking to make their mark within the engineering and manufacturing sectors. 2021 has been a momentous year with events affecting all of us in different ways which no one could ever have predicted. Despite the challenges which all of us have faced, we must not lose sight of the opportunities ahead for UK Industry even in the face of the continuing COVID crisis and Brexit challenges. Sometimes it is easy to forget what we actually do best, and only if we continue to be outward looking to reflect the world class innovation and manufacturing skills we possess, will the UK cope with the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities. This inevitably means embracing manufacturing’s Industry 4.0 Revolution, which is affecting every part of the production plant, from equipment to processes to staff. Because the manufacturing line is being digitally transformed, where all machinery and assets in the operation are connected to each other as well as to entities outside the plant, much disruption is occurring. This has highlighted the growing significance of Maintenance 4.0, which includes a holistic view of sources of data, ways to connect, ways to collect, ways to analyse and recommended actions to take in order to ensure asset function (reliability) and value (asset management) are digitally assisted. This is where the PWE Buyers’ Guide can also help provide readers with the necessary contact information to aid in the search for companies offering the right maintenance solutions and strategies. One of the primary purposes of the guide is to ensure readers are kept up-to-date with what manufacturers, suppliers and distributors from across a variety of industrial disciplines, can offer end-users in terms of products, as well as after-sales service and on-going support. We hope you agree this guide is an ideal means to determine at a glance the type of company that is geared towards providing the right solution for you and your business. On behalf of the PWE team may I wish you a healthy and prosperous 2021. Aaron Blutstein Editor