Business Development
What is re-engineering?
Companies working within industrial environments are increasingly under pressure from the demands of modern-day and the desire to have solutions to a problem at the click of a finger. Rising customer demands puts pressure on these industries specifically when output and performance needs to be at a maximum but downtime is not an option. There is…
Read MoreWhat happens when your original equipment manufacturer no longer supplies your equipment?
It’s common within industrial environments to still operate legacy equipment. To update existing equipment can be time-consuming and costly. Yet what happens when your original equipment manufacturer (OEM) no longer supports or supplies the equipment you use? Ageing and obsolescence of said equipment then becomes a risk to your business, as it may not be…
Read MoreInternational Women in Engineering Day 2022
To celebrate this year’s International Women in Engineering Day we want to shine a spotlight on some of the incredible women that work within our team. Although a small company, we are proud to say that 29% of our team are female. A higher statistic than the 19% overall UK average of women working in…
Read MoreCase Study: Under Voltage Relay Remanufacture
Companies working within industrial environments are under pressure from the demands of the modern-day when output and performance need to be at a maximum, but downtime is not an option. There is increasingly a need to improve the performance of existing equipment as an alternative solution, that’s where re-manufacturing comes in. One of our customers has…
Read MoreHow Repairing Electronic Modules Keeps The Power Generation Industry Going
The power generation industry, and more specifically, nuclear power often relies on legacy software and systems to keep their sites running. These industries constantly face pressure to extend the functional lifetime of their older equipment, more specifically electronic modules due to the huge investment and upheaval it would take to simply replace the entire system.…
Read MoreWhy is Industrial Cyber Security so Important?
Industrial cyber security is a vital defence against cyber attacks on the UK’s critical infrastructure and strategic industrial assets. When organisations use network and information systems and connect to the cloud through modernising their industrial processes, they can increase their vulnerability to the risk of attacks including ransomware and extortion. Attacks such as these can…
Read MoreCase Study: Developing Automated Relay Test Boxes to Improve Plant Productivity
A large number of relay types, especially Clifford and Snell (now C&S Controls) D2600 series relays, are used across a broad spectrum of industrial control systems. Usage includes controlling the movement of reactor control rods in nuclear power stations. Outage periods at nuclear power stations provide limited opportunities to carry out essential maintenance functions. Relay…
Read MoreCase Study: Using Bespoke System Design to combat Obsolescence
Our client needed to mitigate issues surrounding ageing plant equipment across their fleet. One such issue was identified within the EPPE (Essential Plant Protection Equipment) ROP B system. The system modules contain components that have become obsolete making repair difficult and sometimes impossible. As a Class 1 high integrity system, EPPE ROP B is essential…
Read MoreLike Tech and Milliamp Led Consortia Wins Share of £3M Training Fund
We have some fantastic news to announce for the Lancaster Electronics scene! Like Tech alongside Milliamp and a number of other Electronics Businesses in the Lancaster area have been successful as a consortia in securing funding from the Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund to help get new talent into the electronics sector in Lancaster over…
Read MoreOutage 2020
Outage season has drawn to a close for our team at Like Technologies and although circumstances have arguably been more challenging than usual due to the current working conditions placed upon us by Covid-19, we can proudly say that our team has once again delivered. Our work with EDF for their planned outage at Heysham…
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