Maricopa County Community College District to Implement Aleier’s FM1i INNOVUS Enterprise Asset Management System

DALLAS--RF Monolithics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RFMI) and its subsidiary Aleier, Inc., a leading Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions provider, announced that the nation’s largest community college district - Maricopa County Community College District in Tempe, Arizona - will implement Aleier’s FM1i INNOVUS application.

Source: The Sri Lanka Sunday Times

The Sunday Times FT team was in for a pleasant surprise when they visited the Unilever Factory at Agrapatana. What struck most at the factory was its orderliness, quite remarkable for a tea manufacturing plant. The staff was in clean uniforms, the roadways were clearly demarcated and dirt-free, the equipment was sparkling and the entire environment was hygienic.

How does a tea factory look like a five star hotel (no pun on the other Tea Factory Hotel)? 

According to the Seattle Times

Shareholders of Flir Systems have filed a lawsuit against the Portland maker of infrared and heat-detection systems for allegedly backdating stock options.

The practice of backdating involves setting the date of an option at the stock’s lowest point in a given period, artificially inflating the value of the award. In October, The Oregonian newspaper said Flir and several other large Oregon companies reported unusually favorable option grants and either declined to explain or declined to document how they chose their grant dates. Management at all the companies denied wrongdoing.

Top Air Force leaders from the maintenance career fields met in San Antonio in December for the semiannual Air Force Maintenance and Munitions Advisory Group meeting.

Brig. Gen. Kathleen D. Close, the Air Force director of maintenance, led the meeting that included representatives from all major commands and Pentagon headquarters as well as various maintenance boards.

The leaders gathered to embark on the first-ever enterprise-wide strategic plan for the career fields.

BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced that it has successfully implemented a consolidation and upgrade of Indus Corporation’s PassPort R10, an Enterprise Asset Management software system, for the energy delivery subsidiaries of Exelon Corporation, PECO and ComEd. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon is parent to two of the nation’s largest electric utilities, with 5.2 million customers and $15 billion in revenues.

TRICO CORPORATION - In certain extreme operating environments such as a paper mill or in food processing where regular steam cleaning occurs, the humidity level far exceeds normal industrial environments. In these situations, lubricants and other fluids stored in tanks and reservoirs need the protection of a desiccant breather even more. 

January, 2007 – Victor, New York - CTC, a leading supplier of industrial vibration analysis hardware, announced that it has obtained Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C, D; Class II, Division 2, Groups F & G; Class III certification on its AC920 Series of accelerometers and LP822 and LP922
Series of 4 –20 mA, transducers; permitting the use these accelerometers in a hazardous environment without a barrier.

The CSA Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C, D; Class II, Division 2, Groups F & G; Class III certification has made the AC920 and LP Series “CSA approved” in North America for use in hazardous areas containing volatile flammable liquids, gases or vapors. The Class I, Division 2
certification will allow these sensors to be installed in hazardous environments common to the petrochemical, chemical, gas and mining industries.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN and REDWOOD CITY, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—January 22, 2007—Cargill Incorporated’s Salt business unit announced today that it is using The Informance Plant Solution to accelerate its manufacturing performance. Cargill Salt is also drawing on Informance’s expertise to compound productivity gains, support equipment reliability initiatives and maximize assets across their many plant sites throughout the U.S.

Using Informance, Cargill Salt quickly identified and prioritized production improvement opportunities to increase sprint capacity during peak production seasons. The enhanced visibility for process improvement enabled operations management to take decisive action that aligned with the company’s overall reliability initiatives.

CAMPBELL, CA, JAN. 18, 2007 - As part of its ongoing crusade to improve the effectiveness of plant maintenance and reduce downtime, Datastick Systems, Inc., has hired 30-year vibration and balancing veteran Derek Norfield as Director of Applications. His mission is to help Datastick customers to get easy-to-understand answers to complex vibration questions. He will be conducting training seminars and developing procedures for many different industries to help them achieve maximum uptime with Datastick products.

Denver, Colorado, January, 15, 2007 - Motor testing systems have been around for decades. But aside from the addition of fancy graphical user interfaces, these systems remain largely unchanged. Many systems are still limited to a handful of very basic tests such as winding resistance and hipot leakage. These are very useful tests, but for mechanical design engineers who are validating new motor designs, control system engineers who need to produce accurate models of a servo motor, or the failure analysis technician who need to identify motor problems – a more comprehensive test is needed.