Plant Equipment Feature Library

Operations Engineer's library catalogues editorial features going back five years.

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02/07/2024 Maritime matrix Where do ports land on their Industry 4.0 maturity index? Michael Larner, research director, ABI Research, investigates » Read More


10/06/2024 Identifying faults on vessels Identifying the predicted status of individual faults on a marine vessel – up to three months into the future – means highly specific maintenance plans can be drawn up » Read More


19/12/2022 Musts when decommissioning buried storage tanks Underground storage tanks (USTs) provide an invaluable resource, but eventually their working lives come to an end and they need to be removed. How can that be done in an environmentally safe and hazard-free way? » Read More