COREngineering Programmer and Electrician, Justin Harris on his Pathway to Success
Justin Harris is a Programmer/Electrician for COREngineering, a New Brunswick based mechanical engineering firm that specializes in the design of custom equipment.
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Years of Experience for Mechanical Engineers
Experience level by percentage for mechanical engineers shows that the majority of mechanical engineers are in the early phase of the career, which may bode well for the future of the industry with respect to employment trends.
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Report Highlights Employing Polycarbonate Components to Design Sustainable Luminaires
Electronic waste is a huge issue, with Statista estimating nearly 50 million metric tons were generated globally last year alone.* Some of the materials traditionally used in LED lamp and luminaire components contribute to e-waste, and the industry is seeking more sustainable material alternatives.
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Future Pathways: A Look at Four Scenarios
The electrification topic is vast and covers a wide range of possibilities. Industry partners came together at the Electri-fyi Summit for an exploratory discussion about four distinctly different paths for the future of electrification in Canada, developed by the Canadian Electricity Association’s National Emerging Issues Committee.
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Canada’s Clean Energy Sector Is Big, Growing Fast — and Largely Unknown
Canada’s clean energy sector employed 298,000 Canadians as of 2017. What’s more, it’s growing in value by 4.8% every year — a third faster than Canada’s economy as a whole (3.6%).
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How Businesses Can Benefit from Electric Vehicles
Horse-drawn carriages as we know them were the primary method of transportation for centuries. Yet, it took eight years for cars to outnumber horses [2] and just 13 for the automobile revolution to be complete.
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Years of Experience for Lighting Designers by Percentage
This graph shows years of experience for lighting designers by percentage. Of those surveyed, only 24% have more than 10 years of experience.
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Why Isn’t There an Option to Claim Lumen Maintenance Values at Times Longer than 25,000 Hours?
In developing this new metric, LED Lighting Facts and the DOE SSL Reliability and Lifetime Working Group worked to avoid the implication that long lumen maintenance times translated directly to long lifetimes of the complete lamp or luminaire.
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Do You See Killer Spiders Around Every Corner?
In the early 1980s, the Canadian economy took a hard kick to the stomach. Interest rates were sky high, jobs were hard to come by and regular families were losing their homes. It sucked.
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Addressing Machine And System Operational Risks In The Safety Lifecycle
In manufacturing, it is not enough to say that the operation of machines and systems is critical to the creation of the end product. “Operation” is only one part of the equation. Efficient production of end products depends on the correct operation of machines and systems in all scenarios.
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The Captivating World of Automation and Control with Bill Maki of TS Manufacturing
Bill Maki is an Electrical Engineer from Thunder Bay, Ontario working as a Control Systems Integrator for TS Manufacturing.
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Benedict Electrical Contracting Limited: Supporting Industry and Community
Benedict Electrical Contracting Limited is a locally owned and operated family business in Owen Sound, ON. The company began in 1998 with Wayne and Marg Benedict. Their son, Stephen would join the family company not long after it was founded.
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Average Salary by Job for Electricians
Industrial engineers earn the most. The next highest job, maintenance technician, lags by $17,000. Both are far above apprentice electricians.
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Electrical Company, Supervisor Fined Total of $60,000 After Workers Suffered Burns
An Ontario Justice of the Peace has fined an electrical company $55,000 and a supervisor $5,000 for an incident in which an arc flash occurred, burning three workers. The court also imposed a 25% victim fine surcharge ($13,750 and $1,250, respectively), as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
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A New Kind of Privacy for the Next Generation Smart Home: Why Every Smart Home and Office Will Want a Secure LiFi Network
As the smart home grows in popularity, IoT and Wi-Fi security remain front of mind for consumers. The CPX 360 survey reports that more than two-thirds (70%) of consumers are concerned about the lack of security they have from hackers who might interfere or snoop on smart devices in the home.
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Shutting the Door on Dust
We know we talk a lot about fibre cleanliness, but let’s face it, contamination of fibre endfaces is still the number one cause of failures — regardless of much we harp on the topic.
