Plant & Works Engineering July/August 2022

News July/August 2022 www.pwemag.co.uk Plant & Works Engineering | 0 7 The Talking Industry series of online panel discussions are now available in a convenient podcast format. As well as audio recordings of the Webinars, DFA Manufacturing Media – which organises the online discussions and manages Smart Futures online portal and publishes Plant & Works Engineering, Drives & Controls, and Hydraulics & Pneumatics – is also planning to publish original podcasts both as one-off editions such as interviews with industry personalities, and as series of related programmes, including special sector podcasts from BCAS and other organisations. Talking Industry, which was launched as an online panel discussion during the pandemic in 2020, quickly established itself as a thought-provoking educational tool. Now in its second year, Talking Industry brings together groups of experts who take part in unscripted discussions on topics that are of vital importance to industry in general and automation in particular. It provides a voice of authority offering viewers the opportunity to gain CPD (continual professional development) certificates for tuning into the live sessions. The large amount of content delivered over the past two years has created the perfect opportunity to take the next step and launch Talking Industry as a podcast. Listeners will be able to tune in via various platforms including Apple and Google podcasts, Podbean, Spotify and Amazon Music, or via: https://talkingindustry.podbean.com/ New episodes will be released every two weeks. The podcasts of the Webinars will be broken down into convenient segments, each about 30 minutes long. Ultimo has extended its offering in the Nordics by partnering with industrial solution provider Additude, it was recently announced. Ultimo is an enterprise asset management (EAM) software vendor. Additude based in Sweden, is part of ICT Group, a leading European industrial technology solutions provider. The company offers innovation support, strategic consultancy, SW & HW development and complete IoT solutions for industrial customers. The partnership will benefit asset-intensive companies, as Additude can now offer them a single point of contact for all asset management challenges, helping streamline operation. Additude offers the Ultimo portfolio as part of its range of software solutions and services for the industrial sector. It can now deliver EAM software that not only delivers asset data but also defines actions to get the most out of the assets. This helps Additude’s customers, typically midsize and large industrial companies in the Nordics, improve asset performance and maintenance efficiency. Marcel Leeflang, Head of Channel Sales at Ultimo, said: “With our leading Enterprise Asset Management platform, Additude will bring new value to its customers through a fully-integrated APM and EAM offering, which truly improves their asset performance. Our EAM solution can be tailored to the specific needs of each customer. The partnership will also accelerate Ultimo’s growth and enhance our presence in the Nordics, helping us support new customers with their maintenance and asset management challenges.” Sam Aston, CEO of Additude, commented: “We focus on integrating data and adding value to our customers through smart industry 4.0 solutions. By joining forces with Ultimo, we now cover the maintenance part of the digital transformation and offer a complete solution including virtually-assisted remote maintenance, predictive maintenance and asset performance management. With Additude’s entrepreneurship and long experience in delivering engineering expertise, as well as tailor-made solutions and services for different industry sectors in the Nordics, working together with Ultimo is a logical step. I’m convinced that their wealth of experience in asset management will contribute to the success of our customers.” New partnership to benefit asset-intensive companies Talking Industry webinars now available as podcasts Following a Talking Industry broadcast, we aim to write up and report on the event as soon as possible, to maximise the on-demand audience. As we all know, more haste, less speed, and following the broadcast on Plant and Asset Maintenance (10 May 222), two errors crept in concerning Schaeffler's contribution by Sally Sillis. Firstly, we referred to Schaeffler's brand names for bearings as INA and FMCG (which is Fast Moving Consumer Goods) and not FAG. Further into the piece where we covered a Schaeffler product which was introduced to assist with preventative maintenance, we referred to it as Uptime, when it should have been OPTIME. Condition monitoring can be expensive, which is why up to 95% of all machines inside factories are only sporadically monitored, or often not at all. This can lead to unplanned breakdowns and downtime. OPTIME from Schaeffler allows for comprehensive condition monitoring that is both easy and affordable. Thanks to its simple plug & play installation, OPTIME allows you to start monitoring hundreds of rotating machines in just a few hours. With the ability to work on almost all machines, OPTIME can detect potential damage, imbalances, or misalignments – even weeks in advance! This enables long-term maintenance and spare-parts requirements to be planned in advance. We apologise again for the two errors. Corrections