With energy prices soaring, efficiency is the name of the game when it comes to battling the costs of keeping cool.  During an energy audit, efforts to increase efficiency often focus on better sealing, managing replacement air, more efficient motors, sophisticated electronic controls or other high tech solutions that improve the situation but offer lengthy returns on your investment.  In this struggle to squeeze every BTU out of each kilowatt hour, auditors tend to overlook, trivialize or completely ignore climate control fan drive systems as an opportunity to make significant efficiency gains and achieve cost savings.

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2006--Today, Sensicast Systems (www.sensicast.com), worldwide provider of wireless sensor networks for industrial automation and monitoring enhancement, announced it is shipping SensiNet 3.0®--the industry’s first end-to-end, wireless mesh sensor network solution that can be tailored to specific applications using a self-configuring building block approach.

Sensicast’s third-generation mesh networking offering, SensiNet 3.0 is based on a building block deployment approach--for fast installation and scalability (from small networks to very large/multi-facility networks of hundreds of sensors). SensiNet’s patented wireless mesh network technology enables end-user customers such as plant and building managers to quickly install and operate comprehensive, yet tailor-made systems to wirelessly track conditions and processes in their facilities.

Fenner Drives announces a new web resource to help HVAC contractors get the most out of PowerTwist Plus V-Belts. HVACVbelts.com is dedicated to providing HVAC professionals with information and support about the benefits of PowerTwist Plus, as well as allowing them to interact with one another and share their positive experiences as well as maybe a few trials and tribulations.

André Navarri, President of Bombardier Transportation, today announced the official international launch of Bombardier ORBITA, a new capability which is designed to redefine predictive maintenance in the rail sector.

Bombardier ORBITA, which is being heralded as ‘The Future of Maintenance’, has been developed by Bombardier with the aim of helping operators to increase fleet utilisation, improve reliability and availability, reduce in-service failures, and ultimately improve the passengers’ overall journey experience.

Anderson-Chavet-Anderson (ACA) and Insert Key Solutions (IKS) Announce Equipment Reliability Partnership; New Partnership Will Deliver Real-Time Plant Health Solutions to Electric Generation, Petrochemical and Manufacturing Markets

PHOENIX & PHILADELPHIA--Sept. 12, 2006--ACA and IKS today announced their new Equipment Reliability partnership at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) 2006 Equipment Reliability Forum in Cincinnati. The announcement also included joint plans to expand market offerings to solve the growing equipment reliability problem in multiple markets.

The ACA-IKS partnership will combine ACA consulting expertise with IKS technology dominance. Today, the market is in a reactive mode when it comes to equipment reliability programs. The combined solutions will assist customers on converting their equipment reliability programs from reactive to a proactive mode.

Duke Energy, McGuire Nuclear Station was awarded the Uptime PdM Program of the Year at PdM-2006 – The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Chattanooga TN (PRWEB) September 12, 2006—Duke Energy, McGuire Nuclear Station was awarded the Uptime PdM Program of the Year at PdM-2006—The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Industry Experts Provide Unique Perspective on Achieving Operational Excellence and Profitability Through Improved Asset Reliability

BURLINGTON, ONTARIO, - Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset reliability solutions, is hosting its inaugural Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit taking place from October 2nd to October 5th, 2006, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. With the theme of “Reliability - The Journey to Operational Excellence,” the Summit is an unprecedented gathering of well-known industry experts that will focus on the importance of reliability as a business strategy to optimize operational and financial performance.

Roanoke, Virginia - September 1, 2007 - Meridium Inc., announced today that Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) has signed an agreement to use a combination of Meridium’s asset performance management (APM) software solutions to enhance the reliability of data gathering and analyses of K-C’s company-wide assets. 

According to the agreement, K-C will leverage Meridium’s APM solutions to help improve the performance of the equipment the company uses to manufacture its health and hygiene products and the efficiency of its many mills and distribution facilities.

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Washington Group International (Nasdaq: WGII) announced today it has been selected to provide facilities-management services at a microelectronics production facility located in the western United States. Under a three-year contract, Washington Group will manage and/or perform operations and maintenance services for buildings, building and process utilities, ultra-pure water systems, and industrial waste treatment systems at the two million-square-foot, multibuilding campus.

BURLINGTON, ON (September 6, 2006) – Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset reliability solutions, today announced that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), is using Ivara EXP reliability software to support their implementation of AP-913 - an equipment reliability process description established by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).  With EXP, SONGS has improved its ability to manage asset performance and align its reliability processes with the AP-913 processes.