Articles & Updates
Insights from the workshop and on-site—breakdowns, overhauls, servicing and fabrication projects keeping North East industry moving.
Modernise ageing plant without a full replacement. Explore retrofit ideas that deliver efficiency gains and safety improvements.
Improve PUWER compliance and maintenance access with guarding upgrades engineered for real-world plant conditions.
Spares strategies fail when they rely on guesswork. Use criticality, lead time and failure data to decide what to stock and where.
Mixed fleets complicate servicing schedules. Use these tactics to standardise inspections, reporting and follow-up actions across every OEM.
Build a condition monitoring strategy that blends data insight with hands-on mechanical expertise to reduce unplanned stoppages.
PUWER obligations don’t have to slow you down. Embed compliance into daily maintenance culture with these proven tactics.
Overhauls restore core assets to like-new performance. Learn how to scope, schedule and execute them while keeping the rest of the plant productive.
The maintenance actions that stop conveyors from grinding to a halt. Use this checklist to tighten safety, reduce downtime and extend component life.
Learn to read the signs of an imminent breakdown, from heat rise to contamination, and act before an unplanned outage damages throughput.
Shutdown success hinges on skilled people. See how a responsive mechanical labour partner keeps projects on time and fully compliant.
Sometimes the right fabrication happens beside the line, sometimes back at the workshop. Weigh the pros and cons for your next project.
When the same asset keeps failing, root cause analysis uncovers the why. Use these practical steps to engineer problems out for good.