How To Design a Wooden Crate for Capital Equipment
When transporting delicate, high-technology and high-value capital equipment, the right wooden...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What Is Construction Design Management (CDM) and Why Is It Important?
When you’re undertaking a complex construction project, worker safety should be your number one...
Importing Capital Equipment: Complying with UKCA Marking
Many manufacturers require the importation of mechanical, electrical, and electronic manufacturing...
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...
What are the SEMI Packing Standards?
How a semiconductor tool is packed directly influences its long-term performance, longevity and...
4 Expert Tips for Export Packing Semiconductor Equipment
We’ve worked with complex, business-critical semiconductor equipment since 1991. And in that time,...
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...
How Air Skates Are Supporting the Way We Handle Precision Movement
Whether you’re transporting high-value equipment within a cleanroom environment, positioning...
Demand for Advanced Aseptic Technology: How Will Manufacturers Adapt?
Aseptic manufacturing – that is, the handling of sterile products and devices in a controlled and...
What is ISPM 15? And Who Does it Apply To?
The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures Publication No. 15 are commonly known as...
The Emergence of IoT and AI in Fab Settings
Wafer fabrication does not welcome shutdowns. All it takes is a problem with one semiconductor...
How IES FSEs Support Fabs to Keep Tools Running
Semiconductor fabs thrive on optimisation. From minimising downtime to increasing the lifespan of...
Global Semiconductor Funding Round-up - April 2023
The last few months have seen a surge of public funding in the semiconductor industry, as...
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...
What’s Next for the Semiconductor Industry?
From shortage to oversupply, and globalism to nationalism – the semiconductor industry is going...
High-Technology Equipment Decommissioning: How to Get it Right
Before you can move or pack high-technology equipment for relocation, you first need to...
An interview with our expert Brian Fletcher: The evolution of cleanrooms
Brian Fletcher, a semiconductor equipment specialist talks us through the evolution of cleanrooms
The 4Ps of moving pharmaceutical equipment
The pharmaceutical industry is growing and evolving. Consumer spending on pharmaceutical products...
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...
Tales From the Front Line: Our Most Satisfying Machine Moves
Since 1991, we’ve worked on a huge variety of engineering and logistics jobs - and can confidently...
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...
IES Furthers Apprenticeship Scheme Commitment
We have decided to roll out the IES apprenticeship scheme, recruiting for two new roles that offer...
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...
Everything you need to know about ISPM15 and heat treated export packing solutions
ISPM15 standards provide the criteria for wood used as packaging material. They are intended to...
UKCA Marking FAQs
UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) is the required certification for products, equipment and machinery...
IES's Flexibility Allows Us to Continue Supporting Customers
The COVID-19 virus outbreak which we are currently dealing with has thrown many routine business...
Export Packing: Discover Our Custom Made Crates
IES offers a range of export packing and crate making services which you can take advantage of,...
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...
New Name, Same Great Service: Omni Technologies
February 2020 IES is bringing its highly successful equipment partnership business, Omni...
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...
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...
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...
The Power of Apprenticeships
School leavers are often inundated with options for their future. Should they choose higher...
Bespoke Packaging for Large Machinery: Breaking Down the Build
IES has almost three decades’ worth of experience in packing and shipping machinery, ranging from...
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....
Our 6-Step Process for Equipment Transport
Transporting complex, high-technology equipment is no easy feat—regardless of whether you’re an OEM...
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...
Factory Relocation: Method Statements and Risk Assessments
Relocating an entire factory is no small feat. Much like the workings of the factory itself, it...
Customs and International Transfer for Factory Relocations
Factory relocations are large and complex. There are a considerable number of moving parts which...
How to Carry Out a Full Site Survey for Your Manufacturing Facility Relocation
Whether you’re consolidating your operations, expanding, downsizing, or simply wanting to be closer...
Semiconductor Equipment and Process Training from IES
IES offers a variety of courses that cover a wide range of topics central to the semiconductor...
EMF in Manufacturing Environments: Why it Matters
If you operate a manufacturing site that uses high current or high voltage applications,...
IES and National Apprenticeship Week
Now in our 27th year, IES has been in operation for longer than National Apprenticeship Week (NAW),...
When Do I Need PUWER?
Health and safety is awash with acronyms; so much so that it can be easy to get confused sometimes....
Meet the Team: Barry Tomkins’ Lessons from a Long Semiconductor Career
For some of us, a reminder of the long and successful career we’ve had might be an accolade, award...
Benefits of a Field Service Engineer
IES offers clients support from a large pool of highly experienced personnel such as field service...
CoCom regulations and installations signed off with vodka
Brian Fletcher’s career in microelectronics Brian Fletcher is one of IES’s key international...
Export Packing Essentials: Key Considerations
With over 30 years of experience in projects of all shapes and sizes, for clients representing...
Christian's 8 Top Tips for a Smooth Equipment Move
Changing the use of space in a factory or relocating to a new building causes production downtime....
IES in Focus: Contract Manufacturing
Contract equipment manufacturing (alternatively referred to as contract Build, outsourced...
IES Supports R&D at University of Bristol
The great research and development work carried out by scientists at the University of Bristol’s...
Service in Focus: EMF Testing
EMF service overview The Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Directive 2013/35/EU sets out employers' EMF...
5 Key Areas for Smooth Packing Process
At IES we have been involved with equipment and machinery packing in many industries for over 20...
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...
6 Simple Steps to CE Marking
A large number of importers and manufacturers do not fully understand the application of, or the...
What products need CE marking?
The CE mark was introduced to show that a product complies with the appropriate directives and...
Wooden Packaging: Legal Considerations for Export and Import
Do your sensitive items require export packing? There are many pieces of legislation associated...