CHARLESTON, SC, August 27, 2008—Life Cycle Engineering (LCE), a leading provider of maintenance and reliability solutions for government and private enterprise, is pleased to announce that it has been named to the list of the 2008 Best Places to Work in South Carolina. SC BIZ, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the South Carolina Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - South Carolina State Council and SCJobNetwork.com partnered to host the third annual competition naming the Best Places to Work in the Palmetto State. 

BURLINGTON, Ontario, Canada and HOUSTON, Texas, USA – (August 18, 2008) –Ivara Corporation, the industry leader and innovator in asset performance management solutions, announced that it has formed a partnership with Apollo Associated Services, the industry leader in root cause analysis methodology, training and consulting.  With the partnership, Ivara’s asset performance management software, EXP Enterprise, will integrate Apollo’s RealityCharting®™ software and is expected to be available by the end of 2008. 

BURLINGTON, ON (August 25, 2008) –Ivara Corporation, the industry leader and innovator in asset performance management solutions, today announced that the 2009 Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit will be held on April 20 – 22, 2009, in St. Louis, Missouri.  The conference will mark Ivara’s third Summit, which is dedicated to the latest in software, processes, practices and methodologies to help companies optimize asset performance and improve operational excellence. 

CANTON, Ohio, Aug 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE)—The Timken Company (TKR) today announced release of a new 170-page Timken(R) bearing maintenance manual. Written for original equipment manufacturers, end-users and students, the manual is designed as a technical reference on bearing maintenance in industrial and other applications.

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Lubrication Engineers, Inc. (L.E.) is proud to announce an addition to their range of industrial lubricants that contain DUOLEC - L.E.’s dual acting Extreme Pressure / anti-wear additive. L.E.’s new 1302 DUOLEC™ Industrial Lubricant has been added to the specialist product line to fulfil the requirement for an un-dyed superior performing oil that can take the place of the previous LE 300 MONOLEC.

(PRWEB) August 9, 2008—Lubrication Engineers, Inc. (L.E.) is proud to announce an addition to their range of industrial lubricants that contain DUOLEC - L.E.’s dual acting Extreme Pressure / anti-wear additive. L.E.’s new 1302 DUOLEC Industrial Lubricant has been added to the specialist product line to fulfil the requirement for an un-dyed superior performing oil that can take the place of the previous LE 300 MONOLEC. LE 1302 DUOLEC is an ISO 68 high performance industrial oil designed for use in any industrial gear or bearing application that requires a thermally stable, extreme pressure lubricant. It also meets the requirements for use in many machine tool ways, journal bearings in blower fans and water pumps.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “World Condition Monitoring Equipment and Services Markets” to their offering.

Increased Drive to Integrate Condition Monitoring with Plant Asset Management and CMMS SystemsSeparate condition monitoring techniques are easier to implement, but have limited capabilities. Hence, the need arises to integrate condition monitoring equipment with plant asset management (PAM) and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) of organizations in the pursuit of automation of the maintenance process.

HOUSTON, Jul 31, 2008—Azima announces that Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP, part of Air Liquide Group, the worldwide leader in industrial and medical gases, has selected Azima as its new condition monitoring partner. As part of a multi-year enterprise contract, Azima will be providing a range of services to Air Liquide’s plants across the United States.

Rock Island, IL - August 1, 2008—Inpro/Seal Company, the world’s largest producer of industrial bearing isolators, reports that they shipped a record 52,000 seals during the month of June, 2008, the best in their 33 year history. This follows a record breaking 2007 calendar year and 40,000 seals shipped the previous month.

Moreover, Inpro/Seal reports that sales for the first half of 2008 are dramatically ahead of projections and that calendar 2008 should be by far their best year ever.