EMC prepares for national manufacturing conference and exhibition in Hamilton PEM Staff | Mar 1, 2010 Advantage through Excellence: Building the Case for Manufacturing in Canada is a two-and-a-half day event exploring the competitive advantages, opportunities and successes that can be achieved by manufacturers through peer-to-peer networking and sharing of best practices. Organizers say the event will feature six conference streams, attract more than 500 manufacturing delegates, ... Read more |
Safe Motion seminar offers new insights into machine safetyNewswire | Feb 16, 2010 To help industries meet the ongoing challenge of workplace safety and regulatory compliance, Bosch Rexroth Canada is offering a free Safe Motion Seminar on two occasions: March 30 and May 11, 2010. The seminar will demonstrate how worker safety can be greatly enhanced with drive-integrated machine safety functions. The Safe Motion ... Read more |
Rexroth's Tier 4 Emissions seminar offers solutions for meeting stricter mobile machine emissions stNewswire | Feb 16, 2010 With stricter EPA Tier 4 emission standards looming on the horizon for 2010 and beyond, builders of mobile hydraulic machinery will find that the task of ensuring power, performance and reliability will be more challenging than ever. A free seminar presented by Bosch Rexroth Canada this spring promises to offer ... Read more |
Raymond offers lift truck training for pedestriansNewswire | Jan 25, 2010 GREENE, N.Y. — The Raymond Corporation introduces a new educational program — Steps To Safety: Pedestrian Safety in a Material Handling Environment — that assists an employer in teaching pedestrians how to act responsibly in environments where lift trucks are operated. The training program, which includes a DVD, presentation materials ... Read more |
BSA winter meeting: record number of attendees learn about VMI and counterfeit bearingsNewswire | Jan 25, 2010 Glen Ellyn, IL — When the Bearing Specialists Association (BSA) convened its 2010 Winter Meeting January 17-19 at the Doubletree Guest Suites Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, a record number of attendees were present to benefit from presentations on counterfeit bearings and vendor managed inventory (VMI). During a luncheon presentation to ... Read more |
Kimberly-Clark Professional introduces new interactive brochure for industrial manufacturing solutioNewswire | Jan 14, 2010 ROSWELL, GA – Industrial manufacturing companies seeking to improve their cost-effectiveness, worker protection and sustainability have a new resource for information: an interactive brochure from Kimberly-Clark Professional. The brochure offers product recommendations for improving performance, worker protection and sustainability in every area of an industrial manufacturing facility. Areas covered include: ... Read more |
BSA 2010 Convention early bird registration ends February 1Newswire | Jan 11, 2010 Glen Ellyn, IL — The Bearing Specialists Association (BSA) is delivering savings and value to the industry-leading distributors and manufacturers attending its 2010 Annual Convention by offering significant savings on Early Bird registration until February 1, 2010, a budget-minded room rate of just $199 at a top luxury resort, bonus ... Read more |
CSA introduces Winter / Spring education and training course catalogueNewswire | Jan 11, 2010 Late last month, CSA launched its Winter / Spring course catalogue. To view a PDF of the catalogue, click here.... Read more |
Registration now open for Hydraulic Institute 2010 meetingNewswire | Dec 18, 2009 PARSIPPANY, NJ — The Hydraulic Institute (HI) will be hosting its 2010 Annual Meeting at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort in Marco Island, Florida from February 19-23, 2010. The 2010 Annual Meeting offers unique networking and educational opportunities for executives, engineers and marketing professionals associated with pump and supplier ... Read more |
Hilti launches a new modern, faster and easier to use Hilti OnlineNewswire | Dec 18, 2009 TULSA, OK — Hilti's newly renovated Hilti Online features a fresh, user-friendly design, bringing modern, faster, and easier online shopping to construction professionals. Following nearly two years of development, with input from 20,000 customers worldwide, the new Hilti Online went live for the Hilti US (www.us.hilti.com) and Canada (www.ca.hilti.com) markets ... Read more |
McGuinty Government invests in lean manufacturing trainingNewswire | Nov 9, 2009 Ontario is supporting training programs that will help manufacturers across the province become more efficient and better compete — at home and abroad. The Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) is expanding its highly successful Lean Manufacturing Training Program, adding a minimum of 50 training sessions to benefit an additional 850 participants ... Read more |
Ash Sahi appointed CSA Group President and CEONewswire | Oct 28, 2009 Toronto, ON — The Board of Directors of CSA Group officially announced this week the appointment of Ash Sahi to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group), a global provider of standards solutions, testing and certification services and consumer product evaluations. Mr. Sahi succeeds ... Read more |
The Journey: Make the successful transition from reactive maintenance Joel Levitt | Feb 22, 2010 Raise your hand if you would like to go from reactive to proactive maintenance. Going from reactive to proactive is like yearning for the shiny red bike in the toy store window before Christmas. All the kids going by want one, but only a few of those kids' parents will ... Read more |
TRAINING & EDUCATION: New PTDA Foundation Vanguard campaign hits targetsRobert Robertson | Jan 25, 2010 As 2009 drew to a close, the Chicago, Illinois-based Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) Foundation challenged the association's members to lead the charge in linking young adults to career paths in industrial distribution by "being in the Vanguard." Eighteen employers rose to the occasion by making their 2010 PTDA Foundation ... Read more |
MAINTRAIN TORONTO: PEMAC and PEM recognize excellence at MainTrain 2009 Robert Robertson | Dec 7, 2009 TORONTO — The Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada PEMAC) and PEM handed out awards at the recent MainTrain 2009 conference held here. MainTrain 2009 gathered North America's leading experts, suppliers and practitioners to create knowledge transfer, hands-on training and networking opportunities. The winner of this year's PEMAC Sergio Guy ... Read more |
Maintrain rolls into TorontoPEM | Nov 10, 2009 With maintenance managers and their teams under greater pressure than ever before to deliver increased value to their businesses with shrinking budgets and limited resources, MainTrain Toronto is the industry’s can’t miss training, knowledge transfer and networking event. Here are just a few highlights of this year's program. MainTrain is ... Read more |
Mike Holmes Salutes the âGreat 38âPEM | Jul 7, 2009 GATINEAU, QC - Skills/Compètences Canada, a not-for-profit organization that actively promotes careers in skilled trades and technologies, and the Members of Team Canada gathered for a Champions Breakfast in Ottawa on Friday June 26th for the final countdown to WorldSkills Calgary 2009.... Read more |
InfraCanada/InfraQuebec and infrared user group conferences a big success PEM | Jun 24, 2009 FLIR completed its most successful series of InfraCanada/InfraQuebec and infrared user group conferences in Oakville, Montreal and Calgary in June. The events had dedicated streams on infrared for building science applications with experts in the field from Paul Frisk of the Infrared Training Centre, Tony Colantonio from Public Works Canada, ... Read more |
Bosch Rexroth Canada holds training day Robert Robertson | May 20, 2009 Bosch Rexroth Canada's training seminar presenters: Kevin Eaton, supervisor for OEM support, and Darren German, service manager, Hydraulic Business Unit. BURLINGTON, ON - Bosch Rexroth Canada recently held its "Hydraulics Unplugged" training seminar for more than 30 industry attendees here. Learning topics included the economics of oil analysis, condition monitoring, predictive main... Read more |
Big Sell Ken Mark | Apr 23, 2008 Calling students to the trades The skills shortage is a problem that just won't go away, as Canada's workforce isn't getting any younger. Industry now faces an alarming challenge. All you have to do is look around and evidence of the aging landscape is everywhere. The hard reality is that thousands ... Read more |
Gen-XAnne Houlihan | Apr 23, 2008 Harness young leaders on shop floor For many years, those in the "Baby Boomer" generation have held the reigns in most companies, leading Generation X (Gen-X) workers in day-to-day business activities. As the years tick by, however, more and more older workers will retire, leaving leadership positions in organizations up for ... Read more |
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Maintenance guide PEM | Feb 23, 2009 Pepperl+Fuchs offers a new "AS-Interface Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide." This 16-page illustrated guide is filled with information to help AS-Interface users maintain and get the most from their AS-Interface solution. It includes practical tips on basic network layout, addressing modules, Gateway quick start and advanced features, and exchanging SafetyNodes and ... Read more |
Temperature instrumentation PEM | Feb 23, 2009 A new 80-page catalogue that covers sensors, thermowells, and transmitters is now available from ABB Instrumentation. The catalogue opens by noting that ABB offers a wide range of high-quality RTD and thermocouple sensor assemblies with and without thermowells, plus a series of world-class temperature transmitters, says the company. Sanitary sensors ... Read more |
