Materials Management Best Practices Offer a Competitive Edge by Getting the Right Part in the Right Place at the Right Time

CHARLESTON, SC – August 28, 2007—The Life Cycle Institute, the learning source for optimizing asset reliability and performance, is now accepting registrations for the Materials Management Best Practices Course. Participants will improve the return on their inventory investment by applying the sound storeroom operations principles taught in this five-day course. Life Cycle Engineering’s materials management gurus will help participants create a materials management master plan that includes key elements like kitting best practices, KPIs for storerooms and purchasing, ABC analysis and effective work control processes. The course is designed for materials managers, maintenance managers, storeroom supervisors, storekeepers, and maintenance supervisors and maintenance planners and schedulers within global manufacturing organizations.

Increasing interest in extending the life of plant assets drives search for the new maintenance solutions found at Reliabilityweb.com’s PdM-2007 - Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference and Expo in Las Vegas and IMC-2007 - The 22nd International Maintenance Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Fort Myers, FL (PRWEB) August 27, 2007—Reliabilityweb.com announced today that PdM-2007 - The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference, collocated with LubricationWorld-2007 in Las Vegas is sold out for the second year in a row and no additional tickets are being sold.

Singapore, Singapore – 24 August 2007 - Metalux partners vibration training market leaders Mobius Institute – ithe ‘iLearn’ people to bring a 4-day intensive technology training to Singapore this October.

METALUX is proud to partner with Mobius Institute, the “iLearn” company to offer a brand new way to help participants become trained in vibration analysis. This is a 4-day intensive technology training held at the Swissotel Merchant Court located in the heart of Singapore’s charming cultural landmark, Chinatown.

Two-day Seminars to be Held: Las Vegas in September and Houston in November 2007

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--"Vibration is easy when it’s properly taught,” said Derek Norfield, 30-year veteran of machine vibration analysis and balancing and Datastick Systems, Inc., Director of Applications, who announced today that Datastick’s popular two-day Vibration Training Seminar will be held in Las Vegas in September and in Houston in November of 2007.

The seminar covers the basics of machine vibration and vibration analysis and best practices in collecting and reporting vibration data, as well as the operation of Datastick VSA-series Vibration Spectrum Analyzers. It is designed for anyone interested in getting off to a good start using vibration analysis for predictive maintenance and for users of VSA analyzers.

by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch
437th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

8/22/2007 - CHARLESTON AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFPN) —Airmen from the 437th Maintenance Squadron here used Lean principles to increase aircraft availability and reduce total cost for Charleston Air Force Base Aug. 6 to 10. 

CANTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Timken Company (NYSE:TKR) has completed an agreement with Weir Canada, Inc. to be the authorized provider of Timken repair services for chock bearing maintenance and chock repair for metal manufacturing customers in Canada. The addition of Weir’s service capabilities improves Timken’s delivery of repair services for chocks, which are bearing housings, to Canadian metal manufacturers.

Timken will provide training in specialized mill repair services, technical assistance and other necessary support to Weir. Based in Ontario, Weir is a leading provider of equipment maintenance, process support and asset management in conventional power generation and renewable energy, oil and gas, water, marine and general industry.

CANTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2007--The Timken Company (NYSE:TKR) today announced changes to align the company around continued improvement in operational performance and acceleration of profitable growth.

Under the new model, Timken will operate with two major business groups, the Steel Group and the Bearings and Power Transmission Group, which is composed of four divisions - Mobile Industries, Process Industries, Aerospace & Defense and Distribution & Services. The company has named Michael C. Arnold as executive vice president and president, Bearings and Power Transmission Group. Salvatore J. Miraglia, Jr., will continue as president of the Steel Group.

August 10, 2007, Depew, NY, USA – PCB Piezotronics (PCB), Official Sensor & Instrumentation Sponsor of Andretti Green Racing (AGR) during the 2007 season, has announced it will team with AGR to present a special exhibit at the Automotive Testing Expo North America, October 24-26 at The Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Michigan. Automotive Testing Expo, held annually in the US, is the only North American show which combines dedicated automotive testing, vehicle dynamics and crash test exhibitions into one comprehensive event.  PCB will display replicas of Andretti Green Racing IndyCars in a special pavilion area, located at Booth #17024, as well as several larger scale demonstrations of automotive testing applications. This special feature will be in addition to the PCB product display booth, located at Booth #14026.

GreenWood, Inc. was recently awarded contract services work for The NutraSweet Company manufacturing plant located in Augusta, Georgia.  The scope of services that GreenWood will perform on an on-going basis includes total maintenance, production operations support and construction projects.  A team of 138 skilled workers, technicians, operators and support personnel began work in early July at the sweetner production plant.  The team is responsible for all maintenance which includes planning and scheduling, mechanical and predictive technologies.  On the operations side, GreenWood is supplying production services with material handling and operator assistance.