March 2019 - MBA Business Magazine

SMC Business Councils (SMC), which recently merged with the Manufacturer & Business Association, hosted the Fluid Power Challenge (FPC) on Friday, March 22, at the Carpenters Training Center in Pittsburgh. It is the fifth year that SMC has hosted the event. The Fluid Power Challenge was created by the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) as a way to introduce fluid power engineering into high schools and middle schools. Student participants compete for trophies in six...

ERIE — Local businesswoman and esteemed educator Maureen Barber-Carey, Ed.D., executive vice president of the Barber National Institute, will be the featured speaker at the Manufacturer & Business Association’s (MBA) Women in the Workplace IMPACT Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the MBA’s Conference Center, 2171 West 38th Street and Pittsburgh Avenue. All media are invited to attend. During her discussion, Dr. Barber-Carey will focus on how vision and opportunity...

ERIE — Penn State Behrend’s School of Engineering will host the co-located ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference(MSEC 2019) and the 47th NAMRI/SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 47) on June 10-14 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. As the foremost international forum for applied research and industrial applications in manufacturing and design, the event combines the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference and the...

Pittsburgh — Ace Wire Spring & Form Co., Inc., an industry leader in the manufacturing of compression springs, extension springs, torsion springs and wire forms, is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2019. According to the company, Ace Wire Spring & Form started out in the industry in 1939 with a small coiling machine making garter springs by hand. The owner, Joseph Vodvarka, was a machinist, working hands-on in the upstairs room of his house, which...