Electrical Apparatus January 2008
Featured articles  

  • Understanding the three-phase delta, from the January 2008 Electrical Apparatus Power Systems - Understanding the three-phase delta: A look at the various types of connections - and their advantages and drawbacks. By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor (Read an online summary )
     
     
     
  • New product types in the electronics industry, from the January 2008 issue of Electrical Apparatus magazine Digital Electronics - 2008 predictions for electronic control: Overall trends in product types in the industrial electronics industry By David P. Tryling, EA Electronics Editor
     
     
  • Index of Articles - Annual five-year index, 2003-2007: Listing major articles that have appeared in EA over the past five years By the EA Staff
  • Stray loss over total cost, from the January 2008 Electrical ApparatusMotor Performance Can stray loss be neglected? Multiply this "negligible" factor over the lives of many motors, and it becomes quite significant indeed. By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor
  • from the January 2008 Electrical ApparatusSafety and Health  -  Safety doesn't have to cost a lot Taking these daily precautions can prevent illness and injury By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor
     
     
  • Accounting  -  Conquering the inventory problem: Do away with inventory bloat without sacrificing timely delivery  By William H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor

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  • Editor's Comment In this issue - Our annual Index of Articles ... Getting kicks on Route 66 ... More from memory lane: Reader Richard Reece of C.A. Reece Industrial Publicity in Cleveland remembers his company's ad for Superior Carbon Products in the old NISA News, later running it in Volt-Age ... by Horace B. Barks, Editor and Publisher
  • Let's Solve Your Problem The longest-running and one of our most popular features, Let's Solve Your Problem answers real questions posed by people in plants and service shops around the U.S. and abroad. Selected Q&A's from this column are available in our popular Let's Solve Your Problem books.  In this issue - Inertia goes by different names? ... Are extra dips and bakes really needed? ... Insulated versus isolated conductors ... Are eccentric slip rings a problem? ... Problems when reading IR on a hot winding ... Are unused leads a special hazard? ... Surge comparison test: Is it destructive? ... How to set overloads to suit phase unbalance ... Edited by the EA staff 
  • Electrical Manager A potpourri of news and features, selected and edited for maintenance and service managers. In this issue - The real costs of being stressed ... Why good workers choose to go elsewhere ... Money advice for Yanks abroad ... Putting an end to collection calls ... Edited by Kevin Jones
  • Trade associations, professional societies and government activities  News of non-profit government, and other organizations serving the electrical mechanical industries. In this issue - Apparatus recyclers at the Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League take on counterfeiters ... Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) hires Fred Spaid for its technical support staff ... National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) boasts of advocacy successes ... Power Transmission Distributors Association names James Moorer II, former president of Detroit Ball Bearing, recipient of its Warren Pike Award for lifetime achievement ... RSES: The HVACR Training Authority, schedules an HVACR & Plumbing Instructor Workshop for March 2008  ... ASTM International makes its database of declarable substances accessible to the public - long in @ www.astm.org  to find a link to the Enhensa database. Edited by the EA staff
  • Utility Briefs  News of the utility industry. In this issue - Million-dollar raise for Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Tom Kilgore ... Rate cuts ordered for Duke Energy Corp ... Warren Buffet scoops up utility debt ... Edison Electric Institute pours money into lobbying ... Commission sides with PPL Electric Utilities Corp, not residents ... Wisconsin dairymen win stray voltage case against Xcel Energy ... Edited by Kevin Jones
  • Business and financial briefs News of expansions, relocations, annual reports, and more, about companies serving the electrical mechanical industries. In this issue - National Electrical Carbon is part of a consolidation ... Turbocare Canada Ltd. enters agreement with Siemens Automation & Drives ... Inpro/Seal Co logs record sales ... New office for Power & Generation Testing, Inc., of Nashville ... Klein Tools makes scholarship commitment to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and National Electrical Contractors Association ... Emerson Network Power signs global distribution agreement with Avnet Electronics Marketing ... The National Electrical Manufacturers Association announces winners of its 2007 Kite * Key Award ... Harrington Hoists, Inc., observes 140 years in business ...Edited by Kevin Jones
  • Standards briefs Updates of standards and related information. In this issue - Is your NFPA standard really current? ... National Electrical Manufacturers Association revises motor standards ... Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers solicits comments ... Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff. 
  • Calendar In every issue and updated on the web. See our Calendar page for current offerings.
  • Training Briefs Announcements of workshops, seminars and instructional materials, in every issue and updated on the web. See our Training page for current offerings.  In this issue - Motors and generators from EPRI Power Generation and TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co., Managed by Jarsco Engineering Corp ... Servomotor training from Quality Solutions Co ... Corrosion testing from ASTM International ... UPS's and batteries from Ametek Solidstate Controls ... Power quality from PowerCET Corp ... Motor & drive application from Baldor Electric ...Drives and Controls from Bosch-Rexroth Corp ... High-voltage maintenance from Ox Creek Energy .... Professional certification, from the Association for Facilities Engineering ...Infrared Thermography from the Electrical Apparatus Service Association ..Also - Online seminar for "green" contracting - go to www.bluevolt.com  Edited by the EA Staff Producers of workshops, seminars, and instructional materials are encouraged to send announcements to Training Briefs Editor, Electrical Apparatus. See Contact Us page. Certain restrictions apply - contact the editors for details.
  • Trilingual summary For our international readers, each month one featured topic is presented in French, Spanish and German. In this issue - Understanding the three-phase delta - A look at the various types of connections, and their advantages and drawbacks. (read an online English summary)
  • Harry Schmelzer Jr. president and chief executive offer - in the January 2008 issue of Electrical ApparatusBob Murphy of Hubbell, Inc. , in the January 2008 issue of Electrical ApparatusNames and Faces ... News and photos of industry people on the move and in the news. In this issue - WEG Electric Motors Corp names Harry Schmelzer Jr. president and chief executive offer (pictured, left) ... Also featured - WEG's Decio da Silva and Hildemar Sacchess ... Thomas Scimo of A.O. Smith Electrical Products Co ... Bob Murphy of Hubbell, Inc. (pictured, right) ... Russ Chapman, Chris Swenson and David Holcomb of Drives, Inc. ... Kate Achelphohl of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Institute ... Roger Boos of Shermco Industries ... Keith Schmid and Rich Combs of Power Distribution, Inc. ....Edited by the EA Staff
  • Lloyd B. Smith, former A.O.Smith CEO, style=Deaths Obituaries of industry people. In this issue - Lloyd B. Smith, former ECO of electrical manufacturer A.O. Smith ....Edited by the EA Staff 
     
     
     
     
  • Fred Sitkins, professor of manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, restores cars in his spare time - featured in the January 2008 Electrical ApparatusEA reader at ease  Stories featuring unusual or interesting avocational interests of our readers. In this issue - The featured Reader at Ease in the January 2008 Electrical Apparatus is Fred Sitkins (pictured second from right in the photo at left), professor of manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University. Fred enjoys restoring antique cars, noting that each automobile embodies the possibilities of the wide open road, and serves as a creative outlet. "You get that relief and sense of the satisfaction that comes with accomplishment," he says.
  • SIA President George Scalise speaks about the Semiconductor Industry Association's public policy agenda - p. 37 in the January 2008 Electrical ApparatusEngineering Education By Josh Hoff A glimpse into today's engineering classroom in a quarterly feature which reports on college and university courses relevant to expanding electromechanical activities, as well as pre-college programs. In this issue - the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering explores ways to address the spike in demand forecasted by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) ... Recommendations for federally funded scientific research brought forward by the Semiconductor Industry Association (President George Scalise pictured, at right)...
  • Product briefs Photos and announcements of new products. In this issue - Tools from Bondhus Corp, Wright Tool Co., Wiha Tools, Energy Management Corp., Ridgid, and Hilti North America ... Test instruments from Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group, High Voltage, Inc., and B+K Precision Corp ... Adhesives and sealants from Epoxies, Inc. and John C. Dolph Co ... Enclosures from EAO ... Interconnections from Coleman Cable, Inc., and Hubbell Wiring Device-Kellems ...Edited by the EA Staff.
  • Cy's Super Service, Motorhead and Generatorhead Comic strips featuring characters from our favorite cartoonists. 
  • Classified Advertising Equipment, jobs, businesses, business opportunities and services.
  • Direct and Current Breaking news of interest to the industry. In this issue - Sales of controls edge up in third quarter ... 59th consecutive month of export growth ... OSH to report to the European Union? ... Falling US dollar hurts Canadian exports ... Small business loans for military veterans .. from The Editors of Electrical Apparatus.

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