Nord Gear helps the kids BRAMPTON, ON—Nord Gear’s annual VIP golf classic raffle again last year raised $9,620 for the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada. Sandra Hancox, Ontario Chapter director and Ulana Kopysyansky accepted the cheque on behalf of the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada. Denis Dryburgh president, Nord Gear Canada and G.A. Kuechenmeister, president and founder, Getreibebau Nord Gear, also took part in the cheque presentation. To read the full story, click here.
PEM is pleased to announce that FLIR Systems Canada is the official sponsor of the PEM 2008 Maintenance Awards. The awards program recognizes and promotes maintenance excellence. This year, the winning maintenance team will receive a new infrared camera from FLIR Systems Canada. To read the full story, click here.
CHICAGO, IL—The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) will hold its seventh annual Canadian Conference on May 29-31, 2008 in Whistler, BC. Devoted to Canadian industry networking and trends, the conference is a must-attend event for distributors and manufacturers in the power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) industry. To read the full story, click here.
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Managing Equipment Reliability Continuous improvement and the use of modern management tools to achieve risk and reliability improvements is the focus of this two-day seminar. The seminar is part of the more comprehensive Physical Asset Management Certificate program whose goal is to provide participants with the tools and methodologies that allow them to achieve maintenance excellence in their organizations. For more information, visit: www.pdc.utoronto.ca.
Euromaintenance 08 Euromaintenance (the European maintenance conference) announced its three-day progam. Welcoming more than 500 maintenance managers from across Europe and beyond to Brussels, Belgium, Euromaintenance looks as though it will be one of Europe’s biggest maintenance conferences ever. For more information, visit: www.euromaintenance.org.
BC Industrial Expo Back by popular demand! The BC Industrial Expo in Abbotsford, BC is the place to be for maintenance and engineering, design engineering, equipment and machinery maintenance and original equipment manufacturers. More than 200 exhibitors/suppliers will be represented at the show. For more information, contact Lee Baker, show manager at tel: (888) 253-1718; email: leebaker@exposition.com; Web site: bcindustrialexpo.ca.
Timken offers online tool CANTON, OH—The Timken Company announced the availability of an online tool that enables original equipment manufacturers, distributors, students and end users to easily locate a Timken housed unit that correctly interchanges with a competitor’s part. The Timken Fafnir Housed-Unit Interchange employs an easy-to-follow, three-step process for looking up interchange information using a competitor’s part number. To read the full story, click here.
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SEARCHING FOR NEW PRODUCTS? GO TO CLB CARD PACKS! PEM readers can now go to http://cardpack.clbmedia.ca and search for the latest products from manufacturers, which serve the needs of the plant engineering and maintenance marketplace. The cards are organized by product type. When you click on the card, you are then connected to the company Web site. You can also request information or print out the card for further use.
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EVENT CALENDARCheck out the Event Calendar on the PEM Web site for upcoming industry seminars, conferences, shows and training sessions. Got an event you want us to include on the Web site? Please send an email to PEM editor Robert Robertson: rrobertson@clbmedia.ca. |
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