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Survey Says Among seven Canadian cities, Calgary is the highest paying for those working in electrical wholesale, with a median salary of $63,000.

Wholesale Economy Wholesale sales rose 0.3% to $63.1 billion in December following a 1.1% decline in November. Sales were up in four of seven subsectors, representing about 64% of total wholesale sales. The motor vehicle and parts and the miscellaneous subsectors led the gains.

GDP Slowed Growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to 0.1% in the fourth quarter, the slowest pace since the second quarter of 2016.

GDP Decline Real gross domestic product edged down 0.1% in December, the third decline in four months. The 0.7% decline in goods-producing industries more than offset the 0.2% gain in service-producing industries. Overall, 13 of 20 industrial sectors were up in December.

Digital transformation is tricky. For starters, it can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. It can also be anxiety inducing. Digital transformation can sound like an event that happens in a moment in time, which may present paralytic pressures to be sure that organizations are doing it right, only to leave them with no progress.

Did you ever have a potential customer who should have been excited about doing business with you but seemed reserved? It happened in a weird way for me.

5 Types of Consent Canada’s new anti-spam law (CASL) was passed in December 2010 and, following a Governor in Council order, it entered into force on July 1, 2014.

Survey Says Electrical wholesalers working for companies with over 5000 employees earn substantially more than those working for smaller companies. Average annual salary for these high-paid employees: $90,000.

Over the past six months we’ve seen a number of distributors upgrade their websites — either the look and feel, evolve to a webstore or upgrade both.

Edge Computing At Verizon’s newly formed 5G testbed in Houston, engineers recently performed a facial recognition test using a Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) in the network facility with MEC platform software and using a centralized data centre.

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Open Letter to the Canadian Electrical Industry: Our Supply Chain

Rick McCarten With an outstanding record turnout at this year’s EFC Conference in Quebec City, delegates were asked to attend a workshop on our supply chain.

Delegates voted on several issues that would help advance our industry towards digitalization, improved performance, ease of doing business, and improved data.

Why?

Why do we need a workshop for our industry? All of our research over the years to supply chains customers shows that brand loyalty is mixed — it’s almost 50/50 between the manufacturer and the distributor.

NEMA and ISA Working Together on New Building Systems Cybersecurity Program

Cybersecurity During a recent Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group meeting, representatives from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and International Society of Automation (ISA) outlined a new program to address the growing risk of unprotected and under-protected building control systems in the U.S. and abroad.

Building owners, users, and manufacturers of control systems continuously work to find practical ways to create safe and more secure environments.

IDEA to Offer Customer Training Plan for the IDEA Connectors Launch

Idea IDEA plans to introduce an online learning management tool, the IDEA Learning Portal, to train customers on the new IDEA Connector, which will launch in late September. This portal will contain comprehensive training information and documentation on the IDEA Connector, a master data management (MDM) platform that enables distributors to securely access accurate and timely product and pricing data directly from manufacturers.

To complement the portal, there will be four training session devoted to manufacturers and distributors at eBiz. These training sessions will dive deeper into specific content to ensure a complete understanding of important functionality.

2019 LFI Innovation Awards Spotlight Excellence and Creativity

The celebrated LFI Innovation Awards marked the opening this week of the 2019 Lightfair International Trade Show and Conference with a dramatic showcasing of the industry’s most innovative products and designs introduced during the last 12 months.

The 2019 awards and trade show opening mark the 30th anniversary of the world’s largest annual lighting and technology event. The 2019 awards saw entries spanning 14 categories, with each submission judged by an independent panel of lighting professionals. Winning entries exemplified the best in innovative design and thinking.

Want to Win Customers? Think Like a Consumer

By: Thomas Donato, Rockwell Automation

We all are consumers. We all have expectations of quality and service.

When I talk to our customers, I do so with that experience and mindset. If we don’t deliver – we lose. Maybe not immediately, but eventually. It’s as simple as that.

I just lived through a great example of this. Every morning I use our blender. One of the parts broke, and the manufacturer made it quite difficult and cumbersome to get a replacement.

Westburne Appoints Divisional Sales Manager, ...

Richard Do joined Westburne’s Senior Leadership Team as the new Divisional Sales Manager for ...

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