ICONICS offers free use of its CFSWorX™ remote assistance solution for frontline workers to help companies address the travel and social distancing issues related to COVID-19.

Metso said it has signed a service partner agreement with FEMCO Holdings, LLC, that will provide service support for metal recycling equipment throughout North America. FEMCO, a leading national machine repair, field service, and rebuild company, has been in the scrap, demolition and recycling industry for more than 50 years and has a strong reputation for quality, reliable and responsive services.

With its advanced analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) data, Maximo is a robust platform that has the power to transform how companies manage their physical assets. Maximo offers insights into asset usage that can lead to better enterprise asset management, extend the lifecycle of assets, improve ROI of assets and increase efficiency. However Maximo is so extensive, it’s hard for enterprise asset managers to initially wrap their heads around. 

The technology group Wärtsilä has delivered a navigation simulator and specific mathematical models to the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) in the city of Rauma, Finland. These will be used as an essential enabler in the Intelligent Shipping Technology Test Laboratory (ISTLAB) project, which aims at creating a technically precise testing environment for remotely controlled, autonomous vessels. The contract with Wärtsilä was signed in the 4th quarter of 2019.

A leading Australian utility has been sending a floating robot into its sewers to collect data, but it can do a lot more than that – the RACER (Rapid Assessment Condition Evaluation Robot) has been developed to inspect and condition assess large traversable sewers, promising a new age of asset management for the utility, Digital Utilities reports

SONOTEC has established itself over the past 25 years in the global NDT market as a specialist for customized ultrasonic testing solutions. With a powerful R&D team and a state-of-the-art in-house piezo-composite production, SONOTEC accompanies its customers from the first product idea to serial production.

Thirty-five years after the Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to take a spacewalk, a new historical event took place above our heads on 18 October 2019. Two Nasa astronauts took the first all-female spacewalk. It was not just for fun, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were responsible for replacing defective equipment from the International Space Station (ISS), and in that way also formed the first female maintenance team in the space.

Euromaintenance 2016 will take place in Athens at the end of May. It is the ideal moment to reflect on maintenance in a European context. Euromaintenance is known as the summit for all involved in maintenance across Europe, it’s the place to be. The conference, with the support of the EFNMS, is the only commercially independent conference covering the topics we deal with in the maintenance world.