6 Key Challenges for FSEs Supporting Implant Equipment in Fabs
Supporting implant equipment in fabs and cleanroom environments requires a unique combination of technical expertise, problem-solving skills and an...
Manufacturer’s Declaration of Conformity: Essential Components
Manufacturers and importers require CE marking (European Union) or UKCA marking (Great Britain) before they can supply or use certain types of...
Key Considerations for Moving and Installing Cleanroom Equipment
Moving and installing high-technology equipment is always a challenging task, but when you add a cleanroom environment to the mix, things get even...
The 4 Essential “P”s of Moving Pharmaceutical Equipment
The pharmaceutical sector is continuously evolving. And as facilities scale up production, reconfigure cleanrooms, or introduce new technologies, the...
Your UKCA Marking FAQs, Answered
Before you can sell or supply certain products in Great Britain, you must certify that they comply with UKCA marking regulations.
Maximising Semiconductor Equipment Uptime: 5 Key Maintenance Tips
In semiconductor manufacturing, even brief equipment downtime can have serious consequences, from missed production deadlines to increased...
From the classroom to the cleanroom: Harri's career-shaping apprenticeship journey
Apprenticeships have traditionally been seen as an alternative to university. But, in reality, they offer so much more.
9 Benefits of Working with a Field Service Engineer (FSE)
When you’re working in a fast-paced, high-technology environment, having easy access to highly skilled, on-demand experts isn’t just a bonus. It’s a...
Best Practices for Decontaminating an Ion Implanter for Removal
If you’re moving or relocating an ion implanter - particularly one that’s been in use for an extended period - it’s absolutely critical that you...
Why Are RAMS So Essential for Lab Equipment Movers?
Whether you’re moving sensitive instruments like electron microscopes and spectrometers or high-powered lasers and centrifuges, relocating lab...
7 Key Considerations for PUWER Compliance in Manufacturing
As a manufacturer, if you own, operate or control any kind of mechanised work equipment (including appliances, apparatus or installations for use at...
Importing High-Technology Capital Equipment: What Documentation Do You Need?
Looking to import high-technology capital equipment into the UK from a country outside of the UK for use in your factory?
How To Design a Wooden Crate for Capital Equipment
When transporting delicate, high-technology and high-value capital equipment, the right wooden crate can make the difference between carrying out a...
UKCA Marking Production Lines: What Should Your Technical File Contain?
Planning to combine a series of complete or partly completed machines to create a single production line?
Commissioning High-Technology Capital Equipment: An Expert’s Guide
You’ve spent the past few weeks relocating, installing and setting up a piece of high-technology capital equipment.
Making Impossible Possible: Life of a Travelling Installation Engineer
Installation engineers, like me, experience life in a very unique way.
7 Considerations When Moving Complex Pharma Equipment into Your Lab
Moving complex pharma equipment and systems into your lab is not your everyday project.
UKCA Vs CE Marking: What’s the Difference?
Product marking is crucial for retaining market access, adhering to local legal requirements and offering safety and quality assurances to customers.
How To Design and Install a Structural Machine Base
Using a well-made structural machine base versus a substandard base can be a matter of life or death for precision tools like lithography, metrology...
Importing Capital Equipment: Complying with UKCA Marking
Many manufacturers require the importation of mechanical, electrical, and electronic manufacturing equipment into the UK.
What To Ask Your Capital Equipment Relocation Partner Before Starting a Project
Planning a complex capital equipment relocation and looking for the right partner to support the project?
What are the SEMI Packing Standards?
How a semiconductor tool is packed directly influences its long-term performance, longevity and reliability.
4 Expert Tips for Export Packing Semiconductor Equipment
We’ve worked with complex, business-critical semiconductor equipment since 1991. And in that time, we’ve worked with some of the world’s most...
How to Achieve UKCA Compliance in 5 Steps
Are you a manufacturer looking to supply a product, equipment or piece of machinery to markets in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland)?
Air Skates: The Smarter Solution for Moving Sensitive Equipment
Whether you’re transporting high-value equipment within a cleanroom environment, positioning delicate scientific instruments, or aligning heavy...
What is ISPM 15? And Who Does it Apply To?
The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures Publication No. 15 are commonly known as ISPM 15. They provide criteria for the regulation of...
How IES FSEs Support Fabs to Keep Tools Running
Semiconductor fabs thrive on optimisation. From minimising downtime to increasing the lifespan of tools and upping output levels – chipmakers have a...
6 Things to Consider When Planning an Equipment Relocation Project
It doesn’t matter whether you’re only moving a single piece of equipment to a different area of your site or if you’re relocating an entire factory...
High-Technology Equipment Decommissioning: How to Get it Right
Before you can move or pack high-technology equipment for relocation, you first need to decommission it.
How to Handle Freight Forwarding During a Supply Chain Crisis
We are currently experiencing a global supply chain crisis. Delays and shortages are causing a ripple effect across the world, and this can be...
Machinery movement insurance: Getting the right cover
Are you planning to move a piece of hi-tech equipment, a complete production line, or an entire factory? There is plenty of planning required for...
IES Furthers Apprenticeship Scheme Commitment
We have decided to roll out the IES apprenticeship scheme, recruiting for two new roles that offer an experienced-based route into engineering. The...
Do's and Don’ts of ISPM 15
ISPM 15 are the standards which provide criteria for regulating wood as a packaging material.
How to Rig Machinery
Rigging is an integral part of equipment moves – in fact, without rigging there would be no movement.
ISPM15 and Heat Treated Export Packing Solutions - A Guide
ISPM15 standards provide the criteria for wood used as packaging material. They are intended to prevent the spread of pests and diseases and concern...
How to Meet the Unique Requirements for Military Packaging
IES is one of the only export packing providers in the UK to be a Military Packager Accreditation Scheme (MPAS) certified contractor.
A Guide to Our Custom-Made Wooden Crates
When you’re shipping sensitive, high-value, business-critical equipment, you need total peace of mind that it’s not going to be damaged during...
Why to Use an End-to-End Provider for Machine Relocation
An ‘end-to-end’ provider means the supplier of a solution which encompasses an operation from start to finish.
Harri is Learning More as an Engineering Apprentice
After leaving school, Harri Green started a full-time college course. But a few months later he changed to a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship at...
Cross-Training and Beyond – Building Employee Experience
When you consider the wide range of services that IES offers its clients, you may think we have hundreds of employees, or that we use...
Why Quality Export Packing is Vital For International Trading
Global trade is the lifeblood of a growing number of companies. According to a 2023 report from the Office of National Statistics, in 2022 alone, UK...
The Power of Apprenticeships
School leavers are often inundated with options for their future. Should they choose higher education or employment? But there’s a middle ground –...
Bespoke Packaging for Large Machinery: Breaking Down the Build
IES has almost three decades’ worth of experience in packing and shipping machinery, ranging from entire factory movement right down to single item...
Who’s Who in Your Factory Relocation Project?
Relocating a factory is a bit like building a machine; all the cogs need to fit and work together. If one part stops working, the whole thing comes...
Our 6-Step Process for Equipment Transport
Transporting complex, high-technology equipment is no easy feat—regardless of whether you’re an OEM or an end user.
Specialist Engineer Brian Fletcher’s 5 Expert Tips for Factory De-installations
Factory de-installations are never simple. But they’re a lot easier when you do them right.
Packing High-Technology Equipment: An Expert’s Guide
It doesn’t matter if you’re moving a piece of high-technology equipment 20 miles across towns or 2,000 miles across continents, you want peace of...
Factory Relocation: Method Statements and Risk Assessments
Relocating an entire factory is no small feat. Much like the workings of the factory itself, it involves a huge number of individual processes that...
Customs and Shipping for Global Factory Relocations: What You Need to Know
Relocating a factory is no easy feat.
How to Carry Out a Site Survey for Your Manufacturing Facility Relocation
You might’ve heard the phrase: If you have six hours to chop a tree, you should spend the first five sharpening the axe.
Semiconductor Equipment and Process Training from IES
IES offers a variety of courses that cover a wide range of topics central to the semiconductor industry.
EMF Exposure in Manufacturing: What UK Employers Need to Know
If you operate a manufacturing site that uses high current or high voltage applications, you must take electromagnetic fields (EMFs) seriously.
When Do I Need PUWER?
Health and safety is awash with acronyms; so much so that it can be easy to get confused sometimes. But for organisations that operate any kind of...
Export Packing Essentials: Key Considerations
With over 30 years of experience in projects of all shapes and sizes, for clients representing industries from aerospace to science, we like to think...
8 Tips to Relocate High-Value Equipment Like an Expert
Factory relocations are high-stakes projects.
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5 Key Areas for Smooth Packing Process
At IES we have been involved with equipment and machinery packing in many industries for over 20 years, so we have a wealth of expertise and...
How to Build a Wooden Crate
We’re often asked how we go about putting a bespoke packing case together and how long it takes. On this occasion it’s just 39 seconds, and here’s...
How to Achieve CE Compliance in 5 Steps
Conformité Européenne (CE) marking is the European Union’s required certification for products, equipment and machinery supplied to European Economic...
Which Products, Equipment and Machinery Need CE Marking?
Before you can sell or supply certain products, equipment and machinery in the European Economic Area, you must certify that they comply with CE...
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From ISPM to UKTR: Understanding Wooden Packaging Laws for Global Shipping
Shipping sensitive items internationally?