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Rittal's Therm 6.0 enclosure climate control specification software helps users optimize effectiveness and efficiency
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Electrical safety refined by the Risk Control Hierarchy
The Risk Control Hierarchy (RCH) in the ANSI-Z10 standard provides electrical safety professionals with an excellent roadmap for setting the right safety objectives that result in the reduction of electrical risks. Combining our understanding of electricity with our principles of safety is the key to improving electrical safety. For example, when a Department of Energy electrical safety program is analyzed under the light of the RCH, many potential electrical safety improvements begin to jump off the page. The RCH not only helps improve a plant electrical safety program, but it also inspires manufacturers to improve their electrical equipment designs. Lastly, the RCH provides a means to measure the effectiveness of an electrical safety initiative much the same way a project manager uses financial measurements (Return on Investment or Payback Analysis) to evaluate a project.
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Pres-On's high-traction mats prevent slips and deaden workplace noise
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Manufacturing demand weakens slightly
Overall demand for UK manufactured goods weakened a little in June, after a significant improvement in May, but total order book levels are still close to their long-term average, the CBI said.
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AutomationDirect's Bryant wiring devices are available in 15-, 20- and 30-amp models
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Advanced process control: Quick and easy energy savings
In today's manufacturing environment, there is an urgency to increase operating efficiencies, and to do it quickly. One area of improvement that can produce immediate results is reducing energy consumption. It's good for the environment, and it's good for the bottom line. "Energy management," therefore, has become a common best practice, but there is more there than meets the eye. Typically it implies rigorously modeling all or a major portion of the plant, coupled with the use of real-time optimization technology. While this approach has been used successfully, there are other simpler, faster options for reducing energy consumption in a manufacturing plant. Learn what these options are.
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2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index shows that talented workers are the key to success
A report from Deloitte's Global Manufacturing Industry group and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness indicates that access to talented workers capable of supporting innovation is the key factor driving global competitiveness at manufacturing companies.
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@Work video contest asks tool users to show their tools in action
GearWrench has announced the launch of its GearWrench @Work contest, which allows tool users to upload a video for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas in November to attend the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association's (SEMA) annual conference.
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Continental Fan's FCU Utility Fans are designed for low- to medium-pressure ventilating and exhaust applications
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PlugCalc app identifies energy savings from automatically controlling plug loads
WattStopper has developed PlugCalc as a key component in its Energy Calculator Tool Kit.
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Moyno's Sanitary Pumps are well suited for applications where bacteria and contamination must be avoided
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Convergence and the programmable automation controller
Ensuring your PAC-based control system is an integrated, robust and flexible information producer helps improve business performance, lower costs and uncover unique opportunities for competitiveness.
All companies seek ways to make their businesses grow for the long-term. Ask any manufacturer today what he/she needs in an increasingly challenging economy. It's likely to include cutting costs, improving yield, increasing functionality and becoming more competitive in the global marketplace.
Manufacturing convergence helps companies meet these business drivers — globalization, innovation, productivity and sustainability — by more closely aligning manufacturing technologies and production system operations with the rest of the enterprise. This convergence is enabled throughout the manufacturing environment with the technologies of convergence — control, power, information and communication.
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Ideal's IENet PRO Industrial Ethernet Cable Tester integrates M12 and RJ45 ports and shows results in Profinet format
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Process safety system market will rebound in 2011
Safety System market growth, which has been tempered by the world economic downturn, especially in the developed economies in North America and Western Europe, is expected to rebound next year, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.
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Wave of retirements could cause a shortage of qualified job applicants
Already battered by the recession, manufacturers are concerned a wave of retirements across their industry will saddle them with a shortage of qualified job applicants, huge training costs for new workers and the challenge of transferring job knowledge from one generation of workers to the next, according to a new report by the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College.
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