The 18th Edition of BS7671 Electrical Wring Regulations has been revised to take into account changes in technology over the last 10 year of its predecessor, the 17th edition. The IET have provided a link which summarises these changes.

PI UK is announcing its support for Connected Manufacturing, part of Advanced Engineering 2018 which will take place at the NEC on 31 October/1st November.

Procter Machine Safety is relaunching its free email newsletter in readiness for the new European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules that come into force on 25 May 2018. The On Your Guard e-news has been published since 2004 and has proven to be a very popular way for people to keep up to date with all aspects of machinery safety.

For those involved in the design, management or maintenance of alarms and alarm systems, M.A.C. Solutions, developer of the ProcessVue suite of alarm management software, is running a two-day alarm management practitioner training course in November 2018.

Mouser Electronics has entered into a global distribution agreement with Altitude Technology, a designer and supplier of intelligent sensor technologies for the smart home and secure Internet of Things (IoT) market. As part of the agreement, Mouser Electronics becomes an authorised distributor of Altitude Tech's popular line of IoT Bit HAT modules and accessories, which easily integrate with the Raspberry Pi single-board computer to enable internet access, GPS location data, and Bluetooth connectivity.