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The BPF is a key source of expertise and information on Health and Safety issues as they relate to the plastics sector. The Federation is dedicated to ensuring that Health and Safety within the plastics industry shows continuing improvement and that employees are appropriately protected:

The BPF Health and Safety Committee devises and holds regular

The BPF conducts ab Annual Accident Survey - the personalised survey results are distributed to member companies, enabling them to benchmark their own health & safety performance with the industry average.

seminars to update industry H&S Practitioners from the member community.

Proviso Systems Ltd is a company that takes its mission very seriously to change the way the UK performs maintenance. We are committed to offering "Total Service Solutions" to your industry. Based upon extensive industrial knowledge, the Directors and staff of Proviso Systems recognise that now is the time for a totally innovative approach to condition monitoring and the field of predictive maintenance.
We are one of the premier services organisations in the UK because we offer more than technical expertise. We also put the power of choice in your hands ... and we are growing rapidly, so we can respond faster than ever before. Proviso Systems gives you choices. We help you implement individual technologies, or you can take advantage of our turnkey, multi-technology contract.

Lately, there has been a stream of visitors to the Dearborn Stamping Plant (DSP) housed in the historic Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn,Michigan. What's the attraction?

The DSP operation, which manufactures sub-assembly doors and hoods for the popular Ford F-150 pickup truck, achieved a perfect score in a recent independent audit of its weld effectiveness. That makes the plant best in company- perhaps the best period-when it comes to the precision with which it forms and welds sub-assemblies. Executives from Ford Motor Company corporate offices and management from other Ford operations want to know how they do it.

A significant factor is a condition-monitoring program using thermography or thermal imaging. Thermography itself isn't new to DSP, or new to Ford operations, but the DSP thermography program is unique. After only 30 days, the program scored higher in an insurance audit than any other Ford thermography program had ever scored. It continued to work even when new thermography team members came on board.

Wyatt Partney, senior controls systems technician at Eastman

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The revised KAYDON® Corporation ratings are derived from a new method of calculation developed specifically for thin section bearings.  It integrates theoretical projections with actual test data instead of simply estimating bearing life as is the practice of other manufacturers. The KAYDON® Corporation Bearings Division is believed to be the first thin-section bearing manufacturer to adopt this methodology.

These ratings have been published by KAYDON® Corporation in a new edition of its product catalogue and are naturally included in the new REALI-DESIGN™ software that is available for download at www.kaydonbearings.com

We offer a suite of software applications for Facilities & Property Managers, covering a complete range of functionality for end users, occupiers and service providers.

Our flagship product, QFM, is a flexible application, which is quick and easy to implement either as a completely integrated package or as separate modules, comprising the following:

Facilities Management
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The package includes the new ThermaCAM® QuickReport software whose file format is fully compatible with that of the professional ThermaCAM® Reporter. This means that in line with growing experience in infrared the user can upgrade to a more sophisticated reporting package. All images can now be used, exchanged and analysed across the entire FLIR Systems ThermaCAM® range - from the simple troubleshooting camera through to the world’s highest resolution portable camera, the ThermaCAM® P640.

Having compared InfraCAM® SD with its nearest FLIR Systems model, how does it rate against its nearest competitor?

Its thermal resolution is nearly twice as sharp. Better images allow faults to be identified quickly so the InfraCAM® SD makes it easier to do a more efficient job. Instead of 50 images on an internal memory the InfraCAM® has 128mByte of image storage on a removable card.

The InfraCAM® is almost half the size and weight of its rival, which improves both its ease-of-use and portability. The InfraCAM® SD has 17% more pixels on a 33% larger LCD display. InfraCAM® also has a significantly longer battery life of almost double that of its nearest competitor.

"The InfraCAM® SD is a good example of where FLIR Systems is taking thermal imaging," explains UK Sales and Marketing Manager, Paul Sacker. "We’re continuing to enhance the value of our affordable products with more image quality, more storage, more measurement functions. As a company we invest significantly in research and development and the InfraCAM® SD shows the value of this commitment."

Full details are available on the

www.flirthermography.co.uk website.

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