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In today’s competitive industrial landscape, organisations face significant challenges in retaining apprentices—challenges that, if unaddressed, can lead to high turnover costs (often 16% to 20% of an employee’s annual salary*) and reduced productivity.

On Friday, December 6th, Preformed Windings proudly unveiled their new state-of-the-art facility during a successful grand opening event in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

The AEMT has achieved CAFA (Climate Action for Associations) Certified Carbon Neutral Association status by measuring, reporting, and offsetting its carbon footprint from January 2023 to December 2023, and putting in place credible, science aligned plans to further measure and reduce its emissions.

The Association of Electrical & Mechanical Trades (AEMT) has announced the appointment of Scott Haslam to the role of Membership Engagement Manager as part of its continuing expansion.

The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT) was thrilled to return to Coventry on Thursday, November 21st, for its 7th Annual Awards Ceremony. This year’s event saw a record number of entries across eight categories, showcasing outstanding contributions from the electro-mechanical industry.

Upgrading older motors to modern, more efficient alternatives can offer significant savings in both energy costs and emissions. However, replacing a motor with a new equivalent isn't always practical. Thankfully, as Thomas Marks, General Manager and Secretary of the Association for Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT), explains, there are other options.

EXTRUDERS ARE COMMONLY USED IN rubber and plastic product manufacturing as well as in food processing industries.

Nidec Drives explores the benefits of pairing permanent magnet motors with variable frequency drives in the push for greater efficiency in HVAC systems.

Machine and process health specialist, Augury, explores a number of electrical-related faults that can occur in electric motors, outlining how to detect these faults and the role condition monitoring plays in preventing them from resulting unplanned downtime.

To help readers reduce the risk of premature bearing failure due to lubrication issues, Andrew Howard, Lubrication Product Manager at Acorn Industrial Services, has put together his top five steps to ensure effective lubrication.

In his classic book on electrical machines, the chief engineer and university lecturer Rudolf Ernst Ferdinand Richter defines a control set as a system of induction machines, whose rotor winding is not short-circuited but connected to other auxiliary machines.

DUTCH MOTOR SUPPLIER ROTOR BV, WHICH HAS been part of WEG Group since May this year, has supplied one of its customers with three critical application motors for crane applications.

ON A RECENT SATURDAY, ELECTRIC MOTOR, DRIVE AND transformer specialist, BAWCo received an urgent call from a brewery that was facing a critical motor failure that threatened its production.

A QUARRYING COMPANY HAS expressed gratitude for the service provided by CPMR (Cornwall Pump & Motor Rewinds) when a critical motor failure threatened to cripple its operations.

IN MANY CASES, PLANT OPERATORS urgently need an industrial motor which would normally take six months to produce. On top of that, the motor will often need to be customised. Menzel recently experienced this with a fan motor for a privately run Algerian cement plant. Within 13 weeks, the Berlin-based familyrun company was able to build a robust replacement for a failed slip ring motor, which was then flown out to the customer.

DURING THE DAY ON 21 NOVEMBER, leading up to the gala dinner and awards presentation in the evening, the AEMT will host its Annual Conference.

A LARGE MULTI-NATIONAL REWIND company approached Rotary Engineering UK to design and implement a safe and feature-rich motor test facility to roll out across its UK branches as part of a safety initiative. Drawing upon decades of experience Rotary worked closely with the client to tailor a solution, encompassing all of its requirements for testing and verifying AC/DC motors.

ENVIRONMENTS WITH THE PRESENCE of an explosive atmosphere, known as hazardous areas, require special care in the construction, installation and selection of electrical equipment, to avoid the risk of explosion.

CONDITION MONITORING AND machinery protection specialist, Sensonics has published a free downloadable guide titled ‘Specifying Overspeed Protection Systems’. Reliable and proven overspeed protection is a key requirement in the power generation industry, among others, where failure of the machine speed control loop can lead to damaging consequences.

AS WE APPROACH THE halfway mark of this decade, it’s crucial to look ahead and chart the course for 2030. For the AEMT to remain a relevant force, we must continue to drive towards a world that is safer, more productive, reliable, and efficient.