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2011/August
Author:Administrator
New Generation Of Smart Meters Lets You Do More With Less
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2011/August
Author:Administrator
The Industry’s Best Source For Capacity Assurance Solutions
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2011/August
Author:Andy Gravitt, Senior Vice President, Industry Business, Schneider Electric
Increasingly, the industrial sector faces a shortage of skilled workers that’s a result of two simultaneous trends: a disproportionate number of aging workers nearing retirement, and a declining pool of college graduates equipped with the skills...
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2011/August
Author:Andy Teich, President, Commercial Systems Division, FLIR
Despite high unemployment numbers, our industrial base is dealing with a substantial shortage of skilled technicians. In particular, the skills gap has made it difficult to fill an increasing number of MRO roles, including non-destructive testing.
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2011/August
Author:Barbara Hulit, President, Fluke Corporation
Today’s maintenance and operations technicians and engineers hold their facility in the palm of their hand. Compared to even 10 years ago, a far smaller number of technicians are now responsible for a significantly more complex workload—and the...
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2011/August
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Although we don’t always notice it, we rely on technology in almost every part of our lives. Throughout our homes, schools, businesses, means of transportation, etc., it’s everywhere. So, what happens when taken-for-granted and/or invisible...
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2011/August
Author:Jagannath Rao, President, Industry Solutions Division, Siemens Industry, Inc.
The general shortfall of resources in the area of operations, maintenance and engineering is due to a combination of factors. They include: resource consumption by emerging markets; an aging workforce; the attractiveness of other job areas in...
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2011/August
Author:Jane Alexander, Editor-In-Chief
I can’t tell you how great it has been to compile this month’s issue. Against the ongoing, extremely heated backdrop and “noise” of our national production of The Battling Bickersons Do Washington (aka politicians considering the debt...
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2011/August
Author:Jay A. Burnette, President, Waukesha Bearings Corporation
Earlier this year, I wrote about challenges facing industry, including the loss of highly specialized engineers and technicians. While finding and retaining key talent has always been a key part of the growth strategies at Waukesha Bearings and its...
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2011/August
Author:John Grillos, Executive Chairman, NTT Workforce Development Institute
We’ve all heard the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Retirees exiting today’s workforce may result in a potential shortage of nearly 10 million skilled workers by 2012. Our mission is to help America maintain a highly safe and proficient skilled...
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2011/August
Author:Kelly Paffel, Swagelok Energy Advisors, Inc.
Don’t let steam manage you. Check out this roadmap to success.
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2011/August
Author:Ken Bannister, Contributing Editor
On a recent trip to Paris, I reveled in the role of tourist. Among other points of interest, I visited the military academy/museum at the Place Invalides.
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2011/August
Author:MT Staff
To learn what these 11 corporate leaders told us, read on…
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2011/August
Author:Poul Jeppesen, President, SKF North America
Manufacturers today are under tremendous pressure to provide the highest possible quality at the lowest possible cost and to manage and maintain assets efficiently, productively and profitably. In striving to meet these critical objectives, however,...
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2011/August
Author:Rick Carter, Executive Editor
There’s nothing like meeting an expert face to face, having a beer with a peer and posing tough questions to an anxious vendor while you hold his/her product up to the light. These are the types of encounters that routinely take place at live,...
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2011/August
Author:Ron Martin, VP & GM, Asset Optimization and Life Cycle Care, Emerson Process Management
Achieving peak performance and high reliability has always been tough, but with the added—and now escalating—difficulty of trying to keep, find and train top-notch technical personnel, it’s even tougher. That’s where we are today: In...
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2011/August
Author:The Compressed Air Challenge
What’s your leakage level? How efficient are your air compressors? You can answer these questions with some quick and inexpensive tests involving a calculator and a stopwatch. The answers could surprise you.
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2011/August
Author:Tribby Warfield, President, North America Commercial, Gates Corporation
When we ask children what they want to be when they grow up, they never say “an engineer.” The chances of meeting a teenager who’s even uttered the words “improved efficiency” or “production uptime,” much less “power transmission,”...
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2011/August
Author:Welch Goggins, President & CEO, Cleaver-Brooks
In a recent Congressional hearing, Georgetown University Public Policy Professor Harry Holzer stated, “The ratio of job vacancies to new hires in manufacturing is higher than we find in any other major industry group.”
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2011/August
Author:William C. Livoti
Given the surge in demand for electricity and a projected increase in global population (9 billion by 2030), the importance of available energy can’t be underestimated. In the United States, our nation’s economic growth and prosperity depend on...
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