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Machine tool builders team up for new US event
North America’s leading machine tool builders have launched a new event being billed as an “experience” combining the best of corporate open houses, customer training sessions, client appreciation events and new product announcements. The new event is called Interactive Manufacturing Experience (imX) and is slated for September 12-14, 2011, at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, ...
Canadian youth shine at Skills Canada Competition
When the organizers of the Canadian Skills Competition launched the first event back in 1994, no one could have predicted how popular it would become. This year’s 16th Canadian Skills Competition (May 20-23) brought together more than 550 competitors, 10,000 attendees and more than 50 industry sponsors and partners. This year’s event was particularly important ...
Apple co-founder opens OCE Discovery 2010 event
Steve Wozniak speaking at the OCE Discover 2010 trade show and conference in Toronto. Steve “Woz” Wozniak, the legendary Apple computer co-founder and author, was an apt keynote attraction for the opening today of Discovery 2010, Canada largest innovation and commercialization trade show. Hosted by the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), the conference attracted more ...
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DEX trade show expands to Western Canada | Design Eng
Design Engineering Expo (DEX) kick starts its trade show season with a second location -- Vancouver (Coquitlam), B.C.
Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada starts in May
Races start on the May long weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Ontario
Medical manufacturing show growing with the industry it serves
MMI a small show packed with big potential, opportunities
U of T to host symposium on how to revitalize Ontario’s manufacturing sector
Experts will be on hand to assess state of sector in the province, discuss issues moving forward
$1T business bonanza in India
Canadian manufacturers take note: India plans to invest more than US$1 trillion over the next five years to meet infrastructure demands and more than half of that money will be coming from the private sector.
Sparks are flying at Fabtech
Reports and photos from the Fabtech show in Chicago, where vendors demonstrating new welding, fabricating, stamping and finishing equipment.
Keynote Speakers for ASME Turbo Expo 2011 announced
Pratt & Whitney Canada engineering exec to headline turbine industry event in Vancouver.
CME names 2010 Regional Innovation Award winners
CME, NRC-IRAP prize favours Canadian companies in energy conservation.
Canadian innovators score top CES engineering award
Custom earphones, solar re-charger and ski goggle HUD products voted among best of annual Consumer Electronics Show.
Conference preview: Protecting profits with cleantech
What does the man who coined the term ‘cleantech’ more than a decade ago think about its promise today? Nicholas Parker, executive chairman and co-founder of the Cleantech Group (San Francisco), and one of the first to invest in sustainable technologies, says cleantech might be the only way manufacturers can protect eroding profits. “Consumer-facing industries ...
Cross-country EV car tour gets a boost
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced that it will support Mitsubishi Motor of Canada’s Clean Across Canada tour with a quick charging station and other Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) product support. The clean energy initiative starts Aug. 17 at Signal Hill in St. Johns and ends on Sept. 13 in Vancouver. The tour will ...
NSBE to convene in Toronto
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) will hold its 36th Annual Convention March 31 through April 4 in Toronto, Canada, marking the first international convention in the Society’s 35-year history. Participating in this year’s convention, which boasts the theme "Engineering a Global Impact," will be more than 200 sponsors and exhibitors, including companies such ...
Electronica 2010 set for November
Electronica 2010 will be held at the New Munich Trade Fair Center from November 9 to 12. Over the four days, the show will cover a wide range of technologies, products and solutions of the electronics industry including semiconductors, sensors, measuring and testing, and electronics design, among other topics. In addition, automotive electronics, e-signage, embedded ...
SolidWorks heads for the clouds
Dassault Systèmes CEO, Bernard Charlès, made his first keynote appearance at Solidworks World 2010. Last week, a little more than 5100 attendees and 130 members of the press gathered for SolidWorks 2010. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, just south of Disneyland in temperate Anaheim, California, the annual user conference saw its numbers swell by ...
James Cameron Headlines SolidWorks World 2010
Winner of 11 Oscars, director James Cameron has been scheduled as a featured special guest at SolidWorks World 2010, taking place Jan. 31 through Feb. 3 in Anaheim, Calif. The making of Cameron’s new 3D feature film “Avatar,” required more than two years of new production technology development. Innovations include image-based facial performance capture, a ...
Autodesk University 2009 kicks off, physically and virtually
The end of the year means holiday planning, Christmas shopping and Autodesk University. The annual user conference officially kicked off today as more than an estimated 6,000 attendees escaped the cold back home to land in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the three-day event (Dec. 1 to 3), attendees will have access more than 600 classes, ...
SolidWorks World2009 shines amid gloom
From SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray’s opening statements at SolidWorks World 2009, the event managed to create a haven of optimism and excitement amid the economic shadow that loomed over the first quarter of the year. In the months leading up to the annual user event, Ray admitted the company fretted that attendance would fall well ...