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A photo of people walking on Morecambe Bay to raise money for North West Air Ambulance

Fundraising for North West Air Ambulance

January 4, 2023

In April we announced our charity partner for the next (financial) year. Following on from fundraising for Bay Search and Rescue, we started to support another life-saving charity, North West Air Ambulance. The charity provide advanced medical crew and equipment to patients when they need it most and are fully-funded…

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What is…?

December 8, 2022

At Like Technologies, we like it when people ask questions, it’s something we actively encourage across our engineering, administration and leadership teams. Here, we’ve summarised the most common questions you’ve searched for (and found) on our website in 2022. What is the Difference Between Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering? Re-engineering and…

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Image shows a meeting room where people are sat down listening to Kate Houlden from Like Technologies speak at the recent ElecTech event

Challenges and opportunities within ElecTech

November 23, 2022

We’re members of the ElecTech Innovation Cluster and attended their recent event held at Lancaster and Morecambe College on 20th October, 2022. With a room full of people who actively work within or support the ElecTech sector, we were invited to participate in a lightning round. We used the opportunity…

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Halton Lune Hydro Tour

Discovery through curiosity

October 15, 2022

During a lunchtime river walk, one of our engineers noticed a door was open to a building he often passes. A brief conversation led to an invite from Brian Jefferson to the Like Technologies team to come and visit Halton Lune Hydro.   This community-powered hydro, located just a short…

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P2P Project LT

Pulse to Pneumatic Project – Bespoke Hardware Design

September 4, 2022

Our customer, EDF at Torness, were experiencing some issues on installation of their new Pulse to Pneumatic converters at Torness Power Station. They had replaced their existing converters from the pneumatic/mechanical originals with a much smaller electronic alternative. These ageing pieces of equipment had a high failure rate and were…

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Re-engineering

What is re-engineering?

August 17, 2022

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…

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BBL S4 Motorised Potentiometer OEM

What happens when your original equipment manufacturer no longer supplies your equipment?

July 21, 2022

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,…

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INWED22

International Women in Engineering Day 2022

June 23, 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…

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Under voltage relay

Case Study: Under Voltage Relay Remanufacture

June 8, 2022

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. …

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