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January 2005 

Below are listed featured articles from the January 2005 issue, Vol. 58, no. 1 © 2005 Barks Publications, Inc. ... see also January 2005 departments and columns and Previous issues.

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• Seventy-five years old and still growing   

  Service in Seattle—Spread throughout the Northwest and ito Alaska and the Aleutians, Cascade Machinery & Electric serves a diverse market, ranging from aircraft to seafood.  This month's service feature provides a first-hand report on the operations of a Seattle-based electromechanical sales and service center with a client base in three Pacific Northwest states (Washington, Oregon and Idaho), plus a growing presence in Alaska. One surprisingly strong growth segment for this company is repair work (both in the “field” and the shop) on apparatus used on huge (700-foot) seafood processing ships that have largely replaced shore-based canneries. Includes the photo feature, Step-by-step: Machining a damaged motor shaft.
  By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor

• Annual five-year index, 2000-2004    A compilation, organized by subject headings, of all major articles published in Electrical Apparatus over the past five years, from 2000-2004.
  Compiled by the EA Staff

• Bigger than ever: the 2005 National Electrical Code    Summarizing a century of electrical industry progress:  National Electrical Code Update—Engineering Editor Richard L. Nailen sifts through the latest version of what is now a 772-page document, to advise electromechanical specialists of critical changes and additions to the code that governs all maintenance and repair operations. The 2005 update includes new Code Articles, in the areas of photovoltaics, fuel cells, fiber optics, and arc fault protection, that are highlighted in our article.
  By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor
  
  (Read a summary) (trilingual summary appears in the magazine)

• Five for 2005    Technological developments in the consumer sector could drive down costs for automated manufacturing. A veritable explosion of RFID tagging, industrial PC's, and applications/equipment for wireless, databases, and barcodes are explored in this article by EA's Electronics Editor.  "Truly, it's optimism and our inventiveness that makes things like new technology possible.  As always, 2005 will be a good year to watch."
  By David P. Trying, EA Electronics Editor

• The night rider    Kevin Margroff, Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Phenix Technologies, is a regular rider of four-wheel all terrain vehicles.  "I like night riding because you don't know what's around the next corner," admits Margroff, who once went straight ahead over a 20 foot drop, and has had other death defying encounters.  "Sales is a very stressful position," he says. "It is really good for me to go out and be able to clear my head and be able to relieve some of the stress."
  By Joseph S. Hoff, EA Special Features Editor  

• Your company's return on investment  Sales figures mean nothing if not considered along with equity investment and other factors.   
  By William H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor

• Fire down below  Avoid acid indigestion before it becomes a chronic disruption to job performance.
  By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor

See also January 2005's Departments, columns