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AssetPoint Promotes Two, Adds Ten to Staff

Greenville, SC – May 21, 2008 – AssetPoint (www.assetpoint.com), the largest best of breed provider of Maintenance Management software and industry best practices consulting, announced today that that it has promoted two employees and added 10 new employees to its growing staff.

VibrAlign subsidiary Predictive Maintenance Solutions offers machinery vibration and alignment

Effective April 1, 2008 the field services group of VibrAlign, Inc. began conducting business as Predictive Maintenance Solutions, Inc.  As a subsidiary and affiliate company of VibrAlign, PdM Solutions will focus on providing world class service to industrial machine operators.

Report: Money worries may have influenced maintenance decisions on fallen Minneapolis bridge

http://www.startribune.com/local/19133824.html?loc
By BRIAN BAKST , Associated Press

ST. PAUL - A new report on the Minneapolis bridge collapse said money worries may have led to bad maintenance decisions ahead of the catastrophe that killed 13 people last August.  More

Workforce Development Institute to Offer General Physics Maintenance and Reliability Courses

General Physics Corporation Partners with Macomb Community College’s Workforce Development Institute to Offer Maintenance and Reliability Courses

ELKRIDGE, Md.--Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), the operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE:GPX) has partnered with Macomb Community College’s Workforce Development Institute to expand its service offering to include a new Maintenance and Reliability series of open enrollment courses in the southeast Michigan area. This new Maintenance and Reliability course offering features small class sizes (10–20 individuals per course) and experienced instructors who focus on teaching techniques that can be applied within every level of an organization. This course series can also be offered on-site at customer locations. 

DTS Named "Cool Vendor" in Manufacturing by Leading Analyst Firm

Littleton, Colorado, May 1, 2008 – Dimension Technology Solutions (DTS) has been designated a “Cool Vendor” by the respected IT research and advisory firm Gartner in the “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing, 2008” report authored by Dan Miklovic and Andrew Hughes, released March 18, 2008.

This year’s “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing” report identifies innovative vendors that deliver impactful and intriguing software solutions. This report states that “As manufacturers increasingly deploy EAM/ERP functionality out to operating units, including the shop/plant floor, gaining acceptance by labor has been challenging.” The report goes on to include “In addition, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the manufacturing space frequently creates an environment where multiple applications must coexist for some period of time.”

Lloyd’s Register delivers its first PAS 55 asset management certificate to water industry

Lloyd’s Register UK Asset Management has certified Wessex Water against the BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55-1), a stringent process of assessment which benchmarks best practice in asset management. This is the first PAS 55 certificate that the Lloyd’s Register Group has awarded to a water company and positions the Group as a key player in benchmarking good industry practice in the management of water operations and maintenance activities worldwide.

Log on to Your Factory’s Physical Assets: Network Centric Architecture Simplifies

InCheck Technologies introduces InSite – the first integrated condition monitoring solution for predictive maintenance built using network centric architecture. This means that a plant’s key physical assets can now be monitored more efficiently and at lower cost, making a predictive maintenance program easier to implement. Utilizing standard, readily available network infrastructure, such as local and wide area networks and the Internet, network centric architecture provides for easy and inexpensive installation, low capital investment, great scalability, data access from anywhere, flexibility of alert distribution, and easy multi-site integration.

VIZIYA Corp. Named "Cool Vendor" in Manufacturing by Leading Analyst Firm

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, April 10, 2008 – VIZIYA Corp., thought leaders in the ERP Asset Management space, are 1 of 4 companies designated as “Cool Vendors” by the respected IT research and advisory firm Garter in their “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing, 2008” report, authored by Dan Miklovic and Andrew Hughes, released March 18, 2008.

This year’s “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing” report identifies innovative vendors that deliver impactful software solutions. Calling manufacturing “a fertile hunting ground for cool new ideas in IT,” the report recognizes that Work Scheduling functions are “a critical weakness of most ERP-based EAM applications.” The report goes on to note that by improving this functionality “most enterprises will see measurable improvements in equipment utilization and maintenance effectiveness”.

Windows Mobile / Pocket PC handheld vibration spectrum analyzer for condition-based maintenance

May 14, 2008, SANTA CLARA, CA—Hot on the heels of its latest software update, Datastick Systems, Inc., today announced the first customer shipment of its VSA-1225 Vibration Spectrum Analyzer for the Windows Mobile / Pocket PC platform. The announcement was made by Michael Scandling, Datastick Vice President of Marketing.