Wyle Laboratories, Inc. of Huntsville has been awarded two defense contracts this week, as has an Anniston branch of BAE.

The first is a cost plus fixed fee contract for $48,312,309. 

Brisbane — Australian-based Oniqua Pty Ltd. (Oniqua) has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Emerging Company of the Year Award for Global Enterprise Asset Management in Mining. This award is in recognition of Oniqua’s ability to provide an enterprise-level integrated analytical solution for procurement, inventory, maintenance, and reliability management. Oniqua’s solution provides customers with unparalleled visibility into total asset management of their organizations and allows them to make real improvements for operational excellence. 

Bainbridge Island, WA – DLI offers a full-service program called OnWatch.

If your site needs to implement a complete condition monitoring program, DLI OnWatch offers data collection, analysis and distribution of the results and information from various CBM technologies to the people in your organization who need it most. 

CANTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) announced that its StatusCheck™ wireless condition monitoring system received the Innovation of the Year Award from Brammer plc, a European distributor.

Brammer, headquartered in the United Kingdom, presented the award during the company’s annual awards dinner. Brammer cited StatusCheck’s wireless features and the flexibility it provides end users as reasons for presenting the innovation award to Timken.

SDT North America is proud to announce its first Level 2 Airborne and Structure Borne Ultrasound Certification Training Class to be held in Nashville on November 18-20th, 2008.

Those interested in attending this class will be pleased to know that this course will be delivered by SDT North America’s corporate trainer, Thomas Murphy. 

Lloyd’s Register Verification Ltd. has certified Envoy, a member of the Inexus Group, against the BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55-1), a stringent process of assessment which benchmarks best practice in asset management.

Peter Glaholm from Lloyd’s Register EMEA presented the certificate to Mike Pearce from Envoy on September 4, 2008 at the Envoy offices in Cardiff, UK.

BURLINGTON, ON (September 8, 2008) – Ivara Corporation, the industry leader and innovator in asset performance management solutions, today announced that ScottishPower, a major utility company operating across the United Kingdom, selected Ivara EXP Enterprise asset performance management software to ensure the availability of the company’s generation equipment.  The solution will be implemented at ScottishPower’s portfolio of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) and Coal Fired Generation facilities within its Energy Wholesale business unit.  EXP Enterprise will be a key enabler of ScottishPower’s Operations and Maintenance Strategy (OMS) focused on the development and implementation of a standard and integrated reliability process.

San Jose, CA – Today, Data Physics introduced SignalCalc Turbo, a new rotor dynamics analyzer, at the 37th Turbomachinery Symposium in Houston, TX.

SignalCalc Turbo is a new portable data acquisition and analysis system for rotating machines with a special emphasis on machines with journal bearings. Packed with powerful measurement functions, it is ready to tackle every rotating machinery diagnostic problem encountered in the power generation, oil and gas, energy and industrial sectors.

IRISS inc. manufacturer of the only world’s first and only industrial-grade infrared windows, today announced that they will unveil a new product, the Viz-IR at the IRISS booth (#6) at PDM-2008 The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference and Expo in Omaha, Nebraska September 15-17, 2008.

The new Viz-IR is the 1st and only inspection window which combines broadband infrared and visual inspection viewing panes that pass the IEEE requirements for impact, load and flammability. 

by Danielle Gregory
72nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs

9/2/2008 - TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.—The B-1B Programmed Depot Maintenance team here is the recipient of the Shingo Bronze Medallion in the public sector category.

The Shingo Prize is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of manufacturing."It was established in 1988, and promotes Lean manufacturing concept awareness and recognizes companies that achieve world-class manufacturing status. It was opened to the public sector in 2005 with four levels of recognition including platinum, gold, silver and bronze.