Operations
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Achieve stronger pipe joints: seven tips for effective weld purging
Protecting the underbead from oxidation ensures high-quality welds.
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TECH TIP: How’s your motor running?
Use voltage, current readings to check conditions.
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Safe forklift operation: employers, drivers share the responsibility
Ensure drivers are properly trained and capable of operating forklift vehicles safely.
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Smart data modelling
Use it to better predict bearing failure.
Democrat ‘incredibly frustrated’ with leader over Foxconn
Barca was one of three Democrats to vote for a $3 billion tax incentive package for Foxconn Technology Group Aug. 17.
The Trump Unit: inside Canada’s PMO squad to save NAFTA
The Canadian government has created an election-style nerve centre to handle White House-related challenges and officials.
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High-tech sausage: new line gives processors 25% speed advantage
Artificial casing extrusion technology uses real smoke in smoked sausage production.
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Get organized: shadow boards improve plant productivity
Set up tools as runners, repeaters and strangers to save time and effort.
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Details count: focus on fine points to reduce rework
Getting them right ensures you deliver what the customer wants.
US factory output slides in July on tumbling auto production
Production dropped 0.1%, pulled down by a 3.5% plunge in cars, trucks and auto parts output – the sector’s third consecutive decline.
Manufacturing sales down 1.8% in June: StatsCan
Drop blamed on lower sales in the petroleum and coal products, transportation equipment and chemical industries.
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Auto disruption: APMA focuses on tech, trade and Trump
The automotive parts association’s annual conference for suppliers set a positive note despite uncertainties globally and closer to home.
BC small businesses affected by wildfires get emergency grants
Certain businesses that have been under evacuation orders or alerts are eligible for a $1,500 emergency grant.
New Flyer lands contract to provide Edmonton with 110 clean diesel buses
Buses will be deployed on the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) network starting 2018.
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Cyberattack that paralyzed world’s biggest shipper cost up to $300 million
The Copenhagen-based group says the impact will be reflected in its third quarter results as revenue was mainly lost in July.
