The online resource for plant, works and maintenance engineers

Welcome to the online site of Plant & Works Engineering (PWE), the magazine for plant, works, and maintenance engineers since 1981. Plant & Works Engineering Online is the UK's leading dedicated resource for engineering professionals in the manufacturing and commercial sectors wanting to keep up-to-date with current issues and trends in industry as well as informing visitors of the latest news and cutting-edge technology from around the globe whether from Europe, the USA or Asia Pacific. Editorial coverage reflects the multi-tasking culture that now exists in the engineering work place. Topics range from computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS), conditioning monitoring, handling and storage, and compressed air, to boilers and burners, industrial rental, training, water, energy and the environment, and health and safety issues, plus much more.

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Invest a little to gain a lot

Back-to-basics. We've heard this phrase so many times before, and for many cynicism sets in at the mere mention of it. But for plants up and down the UK the phrase has never been more relevant, especially in the field of industrial maintenance. Sometimes we all need to take a steady step back to look at how we can make things more efficient in order to move forward and to cope with difficult times. However making things more efficient can be achieved through many means, the most important of which is investment, and not just by cost cutting. Investment in maintenance is one area industry should be concentrating their efforts towards, getting back to basics and moving from reactive to proactive strategies. For any company that is dependent on machinery for manufacturing or distributing product more..