How to Make Your Open Office a Success
Open office design has exploded in popularity over the last 20 years. In fact, the New Yorker magazine claims that approximately 70% of all offices now have an open floor plan.[1]
How did we get here?
Guide to the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I — Instalment 52
This discussion of Appendix J -Annex J20 is based on the 24th edition. The Code is a comprehensive document. Sometimes it can seem quite daunting to quickly find the information you need.
Popular Skills for Electrical Foremen by Hourly Pay
Skills for electrical foremen are relatively level with respect to average pay, with the exception of blueprints, which may be more of an indication of those surveyed than the industry as a whole. The average hourly wage overall is $37.62.
How to Avoid a Shocking End: Protecting Workers From Injury
Do you know the first question you should ask before opening an electrical enclosure? Plant managers, building maintenance staff and electrical repair personnel repeat the question “Is it safe?” so often that it’s practically a mantra.
Six Secrets of Powerful Proposals
One of the biggest frustrations I hear from my clients is the amount of time and effort it takes for them to put together proposals, particularly those that don’t end up winning the business.
How Data Centres Benefit from Fiberglass Conduit Elbows
Data centres are vital elements of our modern world, securely facilitating delivery of the most valued commodity today, our data. They house assorted bandwidth-intensive devices, like blade servers, storage systems, virtualization appliances and backup devices connected by a significant volume of networked cabling and electrical wiring.
Pay by Experience Level for Lighting Designer
Pay increases with years of experience until a certain point. See the point at which pay starts to decrease.
Looking Back at Electric Motor Use in Factories, Advancements in 1889
The other day I came across an interesting article that takes us back to some early innovations regarding the use of electric motors in manufacturing facilities. The article titled “The Electric Motor in Factories”, and was published in Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1889.
IOT Technology Will Connect Highways, Street Lights and Vehicles. Cars Have Gotten Smart. Can Roads Catch Up?
As more and more intelligent cars and autonomous vehicles hit the road, some engineers are thinking about what can be done to smarten up the streets on which they travel.
Popular Skills for Electrical Engineers
This graph shows popular skills for electrical engineers and their correlation to average salary. Project management correlates most among those earning the highest salaries. See which skill correlates with the lowest salaries.
Secondary Network Arc Flash Case Study
Network crews were working in an electrical room tasked to install an 800 A disconnect for a temporary service on the network secondary. The 3-spot network was energized at 480 V on the secondary (34.5 kV on the primary) and all three network protectors were closed and serving load.
What About Products with Special Features? Are They Included?
Products with variable LED drive current to maintain light output over time: some products incorporate electronic controls that adjust the LED drive current during long-term operation to maintain light output near initial performance levels. This product design will affect the LED lumen maintenance.
6 Myths About Balancing
If you are lucky, there will be a veteran in your shop that will pass their knowledge of good machining practices on to all the rookies who come aboard. Most of the knowledge they possess will be priceless, but there are a lot of myths about balancing floating around out there.
Related Job Salaries (Avg) for Mechanical Engineers
This graph shows the average salary for six jobs associated with mechanical engineering. Overall, the average salary is $64,489.
Lobby Illumination Highlights the Brand at Food Redistributor’s Headquarters
Whether sitting in a second-floor meeting space, or entering the lobby, it’s impossible not to notice the playful lighting fixtures at Dot Foods, Inc. At night, even passers-by can enjoy the circular fixtures that are visible through the two-storey pane glass windows of its Mt. Sterling, Illinois location.
The Drivers and Benefits of Edge Computing
Internet use is trending towards bandwidth-intensive content and an increasing number of attached “things.” At the same time, mobile telecom networks and data networks are converging into a cloud computing architecture.
