53 North Group News

Steve Bielby Joins the Team

53North would like to extend a worm welcome to Steve Bielby, our new starter in the 53North project team. Steve will become a key member of our project team as a manufacturing and continuous improvement specialist, with involvement in criticality analysis, FMECA and RCM processes as well as supporting our focus for food safety within our asset care approach.

Steve had this to say about joining the team: I am pleased to be joining the 53North team and am looking forward to this next step in my career and the challenges it will bring.

Official partnership agreed between 53north group and SKF lubrications systems

53North are proud to announce their Official partnership agreement with SKF lubrications systems, to supply and support connected and intelligent systems

53North are specialists at the strategic implementation of connected reliability systems and lubrication. They have been supporting SKF with the development of exciting new products due for release in May 2022. Following this long term relationship, an official partnership has been agreed that will enable further development and roll out of intelligent systems.

These Intelligent and connected systems are designed to support sites, strategy to maintain, on critical assets, support with maintenance optimisation, and govern site adherence and autonomous maintenance.

Contact 53North for more information regarding the new SKF connected systems.

53North Head office and Data Centre opening day

Friday, 24 September 2021 saw the official opening of 53 North House, attended by Dame Julie Kenny DBE DL.

Although we moved into the building some 22 months ago, the official opening that we had hoped for back in 2020 couldn’t happen because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

To coincide with the opening, we  held an Open Day, bringing all the staff together to help us celebrate this very special occasion.

2021 53 North Charity event

The beginning of June saw 53 North embark upon a ‘Take on a Charity Challenge’, in an effort to raise money for two local charities, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, and the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust.

Several ideas were batted around before we finally settled on an ‘AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS’ challenge.  In essence, this meant that between us, we were to cover 24901 miles in 80 days, which equated to 8.4125 miles per person, per day!

ISO 9001:2015 recertification completed!

53North Group are pleased to announce that they have been recertificated to ISO 9001:2015 following a thorough auditing process from ACM Ltd.

Director Chris Wragg commented “This recertification shows that the business and our teams are fully committed to the continued delivery of quality work to our customers.  Quality is one of our six principles and we strive to ensure our systems provide accuracy, assurance and support to all of our customers. Deborah Bird and Joanne Hunt have done a fantastic job in support me in passing this audit and I know they are continually looking to improve our internal processes.

John Rose joins our expanding team

53North would like to extend a worm welcome to John Rose, our third new starter in as many months. John will become a key member of our project team as a manufacturing specialist, with involvement in criticality analysis, FMECA and RCM processes as well as supporting our focus for food safety within our asset care approach.

I am really pleased to be joining the 53North team and am looking forward to this new challenge and contributing to the team. I bring over 20 years manufacturing experience in the food industry including a wide range of different processes including pasteurisation, agglomeration with packaging experience in glass, pouches, cartons and bulk packaging. I am also experienced in SAP systems.

James Pikett joins the team

53North would like to give a warm welcome to James. James is the second of our three new starters to join us. With the onset of digitisation and artificial intelligent based condition monitoring, we recognised that additional analytical resource was needed for our dedicated data analytical centre. James will be key to expanding our data analytical services as well as oil condition monitoring.

Welcome to John Muir

53North would like to welcome John Muir to the team. John will work in the project team as a Junior technician, his focus will be supporting some of the key elements of data analysis of machine health data, criticality analysis, FMEA and other asset care systems.

What is Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)

What is Condition based maintenance?

Condition based maintenance (CBM) is an effective way to reduce maintenance costs and improve plant availability because it reduces unnecessary intrusive maintenance and prevents unplanned failures. Sensors are used to measure the operational behaviour of the components within the assets, which are then analysed and interpreted to allow an understanding of the machine health.

53North welcomes Mark Parlby to the team

53North would like to welcome Mark Parlby to the team. Mark will work in the project team as our senior controls engineer. Marks focus will be supporting some of the key elements of asset management like criticality analysis, FMEA and asset care plan development, as well as supporting our work in connected reliability systems. It is key that our connected reliability systems can integrate with sites current PLC and SCADA systems, with Marks experience in these areas, he will be a great addition to our team