Sensonics says condition monitoring of equipment used in quarrying and mining applications is critical, helping to ensure predictive maintenance of heavy equipment, such as crushers, screens, and conveyors. Early detection of issues such as excessive vibration, bearing wear, misalignment, or other structural failures is essential in helping to reduce expensive downtime. With demand slowing in recent years and commodity prices falling, effective condition monitoring has become increasingly important helping to maximise productivity, maintain plant efficiency and competitiveness. On the basis that prevention is better than cure, an effective condition monitoring system offers a proactive, time-critical solution that can maximise uptime, improve productivity, reduce costs and most importantly, safeguard operators. An integrated condition monitoring system delivers a scalable and customisable solution for mining and quarrying operations, enabling plant managers to identify the earliest signs of mechanical failure so that prompt remedial action can be taken. Condition monitoring specialist Sensonics has over 50 years’ experience in providing market-leading condition monitoring systems including protection equipment, supported by design, installation, and commissioning services. Its vibration and position monitoring systems offer a range of both contact and non-contact techniques for accurate measurement of absolute vibration, relative vibration and shaft / thrust position on critical machines and infrastructure. t| +44 (0) 1442 876833 e| sales@sensonics.co.uk w| www.sensonics.co.uk / www.sensonics.co.uk/mining-metals 24 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk April/May 2026 Industry Update Maintaining a Competitive Edge Sensor specialist BAUMER says it will be displaying its leading range of robust sensors and encoders at the upcoming biannual Hillhead event. Visitors will be able to explore the latest absolute encoders, inclination sensors and speed feedback solutions engineered to withstand high shock, vibration, dust, moisture, and extreme temperatures.BAUMER says this event provides it with the ideal opportunity to highlight applications across construction machinery, quarrying and aggregates equipment as well as material handling machines and vehicles. Typical application examples include crushers, screeners, conveyors, excavators, loaders, telehandlers, and mobile handling equipment. Supporting functions include boom and chassis inclination, steering angle feedback, shaft and drum position and speed monitoring. Products on display will include the GIM600R, a highly precise, reliable and safety compliant inclination sensor, designed for mobile machines, offering verified accuracy up to±0.1º and the latest functional safety compliance applicable up to PLd in accordance with ISO 13849-1:2023. Also on display will be the MAGRES EAM 580RS absolute encoder, a PLd safetycertified encoder designed for mobile automation. With reliable magnetic sensing and CANopen Safety communication, the encoder delivers robust performance in harsh environments, offering high resistance to shock and vibration, protection up to IP67, corrosion resistance up to CX(C5-M) and an E1-compliant design. t| +44 1793 783839 e| sales.uk@baumer.com w| https://www.baumer.com/gb/en/solutions/mobile-machines/a/mobileautomation Robust, Reliable Sensors and Encoders The Babcock Wanson Group, of which industrial process heating equipment and solutions specialist Babcock Wanson UK is a founding company, has released a new brochure covering its many and varied sustainable solutions. As a major international supplier of boiler rooms and associated equipment, operating in more than 13 countries, Babcock Wanson Group has become a major player when it comes to energy transition, offering increasingly carbon-free heat production solutions for industry. Its ambition is to enable customers to reduce their fossil fuel consumption and achieve their targets for reducing their environmental footprint. The energy transition solutions deployed by the Group’s brands are built around four major pillars, which are explained within the new brochure: decarbonisation, energy performance, reduction of polluting emissions, and recovery & re-use. Decarbonisation is being addressed by Babcock Wanson Group through the development of alternative solutions to the use of fossil fuels in steam and hot water production. This includes a range of electric boilers which have been introduced over recent year; hybrid solutions that allow customers to use the best available energy source at any given time; and combustion solutions based on renewable energy such as hydrogen, biogas and oxycombustion. These are detailed within the new sustainable solutions brochure. Click here for the full release For a copy of the new Babcock Wanson Group Sustainable Solutions brochure, go to www.babcock-wanson-group.com/our-solutions Sustainable Solutions Brochure Infra-red Improves Gas Catalytic Paint Curing A retro-fitted, Excelitas electric infra-red system has significantly improved the efficiency and line speed of a gas catalytic oven used to cure powder coatings at the Dubai manufacturing facility of Ideal Design and Display. The special design of the infra-red emitters will also allow the power of the system to be increased to meet future requirements. Ideal Design is a one-stopshop for the design, engineering and manufacture of POS displays and retail store fixtures, primarily in sheet metal, accented with acrylic, thermo-formed plastics and glass, using high-end CNC machinery and the latest CAD/CAM software All displays and fixtures are powder-coated to customer specifications in the company’s in-house, powder-coating plant, featuring a gas catalytic curing oven. The gelling of powder coatings is often carried out by convection ovens, which are energy inefficient and require a large amount of floor space. This was the situation at Ideal Design and to solve the problem, it was decided to install an electric infra-red, Pregel oven from Excelitas. This was easily retrofitted in the existing oven vestibule. The electric IR Pre-gel comprises five zones of medium wave infra-red emitter modules. Each zone can be controlled individually 0-100% to suit the size and cross section of profiles being coated. Click here for the full release t| 0151 353 2710 e| ian.bartley@excelitas.com w| www.excelitas.com
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