Walk onto any bulk terminal or cement plant commissioned in the last two years and the control room tells the story: fewer operators, more screens, and a conveyor line that is expected to report its own health. Automation has moved from the weighing and routing systems into the safety layer, and that shift is quietly […]
If you specify conveyor protection, 2026 is the year the goalposts moved. Across Europe, North America and parts of Asia, machinery-safety frameworks are being revised to put stronger, more explicit weight on under-speed and broken-chain protection — the failure modes that used to be “nice to have” on a conveyor are quickly becoming “write it […]
If you build or sell machinery into the EU, put 20 January 2027 on the calendar. That is when Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 fully replaces the old Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and becomes directly applicable across all member states. Unlike the directive it replaces, this regulation treats software, connectivity and cybersecurity as safety matters in their own […]
The predictive maintenance market is no longer a pilot curiosity. It has become one of the fastest-growing corners of industrial technology, and 2026 is the year the numbers stopped being debatable. According to The Business Research Company, the market grew from $11.82 billion in 2025 to $15.29 billion in 2026 — a 29.4% jump in […]
A service engineer I work with put it plainly last month: “The turbines we monitored five years ago and the ones going in the water now are almost different machines.” He is right. In July 2025 a Chinese consortium commissioned a 17 MW direct-drive floating offshore unit with a 262-meter rotor and a hub height […]
A procurement manager asked me a fair question last quarter: “Is structural health monitoring just hype, or are people actually buying it?” I pulled the latest market figures to answer him, and the numbers are not subtle. The global structural health monitoring (SHM) market reached 3.44 billion in 2025** and is forecast to reach **6.93 […]
