What words do you think customers would use to describe what it’s like when doing business with your company — responsive, easy, approachable? Or are they more apt to say rigid, robotic, bureaucratic? Customers of course prefer to buy from suppliers who are easy to work with.
When eSentire moved to its new corporate headquarters in Factory Square (Waterloo, Ontario), it took over two units of an existing industrial facility with tall ceilings and concrete floors. The fast-growing cybersecurity firm hired DFY Studio to transform the 65,000 sq.ft. expanse into an office building with large common areas and a café.
Saving energy is a huge benefit when you use a networked lighting control system. Fixtures can be turned off when not needed. Or they can be dimmed in response to available daylight or other input. Saving energy is a great reason to deploy a networked lighting control system, but it’s not the only one.
This graph shows average salaries for six positions within the solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation Industry. Of those surveyed, solar energy system installer outpaces project engineer and project manager.
For the second consecutive year, Paul Hannania was among the 162 professionals and apprentices to compete in the National competition.
What do you do when you hear directly from installers that they’re frustrated with Ethernet cable connectors available in the marketplace? You get to the bottom of their concerns and see if there’s anything you can do to make things better.
It was the early 1970s and baseball was all the rage in my small town. With a population of 11,000 and 10 Little League teams coupled with a bustling farm team feeder system, you were no one if you didn’t play.
Alexander Couckuyt, Director of Operations for Southwire Canada, spent the majority of his formative years in Belgium where he undertook his schooling in Business Marketing and Sales before entering an Electrician Apprenticeship program…
Among five positions, “project manager” leads at $98,000. See how the other four positions compare.
The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities decreased 6.5% to $8.3 billion in September, largely due to declines in the residential sector.
No, I’m not referring to some strange Halloween game, but rather a phenomenon which is becoming increasingly prevalent in the workplace. While the term originally referred to the dating world and what happens when someone you’re involved with suddenly stops making any contact, it has now entered the workplace.
Electrical workers and facility owners rely on technical professionals to take prudent and economical steps towards increasing worker safety and protecting facility equipment. “Safety by design” describes, what I believe to be, a comprehensive approach to incorporating practical and feasible electrical distribution system design solutions.
As part of an Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) project, iLLUMA-Drive partnered with Mohawk College to compare a traditional AC LED lighting system to the CENSE DC system.
Often, code users encounter situations where they find themselves at odds with the rules contained in the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I.
This graph shows average pay by position for a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering degree. Among six other potential positions surveyed: Mechanical Engineering Manager, Software Engineer, and Plant Manager, Manufacturing.
Failure is definitely an “F” word, particularly when we’re talking about critical plant equipment. No one wants to tell the boss that the line is down because a motor has pooched, which is why as an industry we’ve moved away from reactive maintenance to a prevention mindset.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
