Knovel’s webinars focus on real-world engineering issues and feature industry experts and authors. This year, Knovel’s publishing partners including AMACOM, PennWell, ISA, Chemical Publishing and Gulf Publishing Company have contributed authors to this webinar series. With more than 3,000 leading reference works and databases from more than 90 leading technical publishers and  professional societies, Knovel provides access to engaging, reliable experts that can help you in your work.

In the past year, thousands of engineers viewed Knovel’s industry webinars to gain expertise on topics ranging from Project Management to Safety.  All of Knovel’s prior webinars are available free, on-demand. If you’d like to receive notification of future webinars please register here.

Featured Webinar:  Designing & Managing Influent Water Systems- Keys to Minimizing Risk & Maximizing Flexibility

In this one hour webinar from Knovel and panel co-sponsors Chemical Publishing Company and Gulf Publishing Company, you will learn how to maximize the reliability and flexibility of influent water systems for existing and new systems.

An influent water system is water that flows into and is to be used by an industrial plant. Influent water systems purify water by removing soluble contaminants and suspended solids for use as boiler make-up, cooling system make-up, and process water for manufacturing.

Join us live on Thursday, July 21st at 12:00 p.m., as Knovel’s featured experts Dave Christophersen, of Crown Solutions, Colin Frayne of Aquassurance, Inc. and Loraine Huchler of MarTech Systems, Inc. explain the benefits of proper design framework to help you prepare for emerging needs, select better equipment and avoid costly mistakes.

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Webinars Available On-Demand

Generate Better Project Results – Learn What Holds Projects Back and How to Succeed

Join featured experts Doug Russell of Overwatch and Mike Campbell of MCA International LLC to learn how to run more successful engineering projects, despite variable priorities, changing expectations  and global workforces.

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Optimizing Risk Management Systems and Safety Culture

Experts Scott Randall of PlusAlpha Risk Management Solutions and Russ Davis of Aon Energy Risk Engineering explore steps your company can take to upgrade and transform risk management programs into a competitive advantage.

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Designing and Verifying Safety Instrumented Systems

Experts Bill Goble of Exida; Paul Gruhn of ICS Triplex | Rockwell Automation; and Edward Marszal of Kenexis share best practices for defining, analyzing and verifying safety levels of proposed and existing safety systems.

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Engineers Professional Use of Social Networks Today and Where It’s Heading

Kate Worlock, Outsell Director and Lead Analyst, share findings from a 2009 study around the current use of online social networks by engineers. Kate’s research is juxtaposed with the real-world experiences of Alan Belniak of PTC and Sahitya Sehgal, organizer of the Industrial Engineering Network on LinkedIn.

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Materialistic Engineering: Build Stronger, Better Products Using Interactive Tables and Equations

Moderator Ken Wong of Desktop Engineering magazine joined experts Sandy Joung of PTC and Amy Bunzel of Autodesk to explore the capabilities enabled through computational design and explain how to incorporate interactive equations and property tables into your CAD workflow.

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To serve the multi-disciplinary requirements of global project teams, BP needed a resource offering the reference information necessary for employees to perform varied functions across diverse business units.

Knovel was a resource BP chose. Knovel allowed BP to ensure that vital advances and challenging problems would not remain unresolved for lack of easily accessible technical information.

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Knovel Math now offers more than 600 new Mathcad worksheets from PTC® e-Libraries. Additionally, all Knovel Math worksheets are now fully compatible with Mathcad 14, 15 and the recently introduced Mathcad Prime.

The Knovel Math expansion enables engineers to quickly find and solve systems of equations across a wider range of topics via a collection of fully documented and validated Mathcad worksheets. Knovel Math offers the largest commercially available collection of validated Mathcad worksheets.

With Knovel Math, Mathcad users find the worksheet they need using powerful search tools, download it into Mathcad 14, 15 or Mathcad Prime and customize it using specific input values for problem-solving. Blending more than 600 worksheets from PTC’s Mathcad Engineering Libraries with Knovel’s content expertise, this upgrade expands the worksheets available in mechanical, electrical and power engineering.

For more information about Knovel Math, please contact the Knovel sales team at (866) 240-8174.

Is Your Technology As Efficient As It Could Be? – IndustryWeek

Knovel CEO Chris Forbes tells IndustryWeek why technology spending is up on machines and software that help businesses run leaner.
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Knovel Expands Executive Team

New Roles Include Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Sales.
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Bechtel’s Information Toolkit for the Traveling Engineer - Campus Technology

Bechtel Engineer Perry Munsinger on how Knovel makes life easier on the road.
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During the 2011 SLA Conference in Philadelphia, PA, Knovel presented 5 Fun Facts You May Not Know About Libraries to celebrate the significant role of librarians.

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Researching Designs that Reduce Stress

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods can underestimate the impact of stress concentration on the strength of mechanical components. This common engineering problem comes in the form of a story from a bicycle component manufacturer. A number of claims from customers related to the failure of pedal axles were received and an engineer was brought in to assess
the problem and offer a solution.

Follow along as we walk through how stress concentration methodology found on Knovel can be used in the design to increase the strength of a mechanical part without FEA.

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KNews – March 2011

In May, Knovel will launch its 26th subject area focused on the discovery, development, extraction, processing and refinement of minerals from the earth.  Knovel’s Mining Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy content collection will provide must-have guidance on managing critical health and safety issues in a high-risk industry, as well as practical information on improving mineral processing efficiency to lower the cost of production, maximize the value of extraction efforts and maintain competitive prices for globally-available commodity materials. Read the rest of this entry »

Please note, there was an error in the newsletter, the webinar will take place on Thursday, March 24th, not Tuesday. We apologize for the confusion.

On Thursday, March 24th at 12 p.m. ET, Knovel’s featured experts, Russ Davis of Aon Risk Engineering and Scott Randall of PlusAlpha Risk Management Solutions will discuss what’s required to upgrade your Safety and Environmental (SEM) risk management programs.

They’ll investigate key learnings from the downstream industry regarding risk and culture, the importance of culture and human factors, and relate them to the findings of various post-Macando inquires including Presidential Commission, National Academy of Engineering and Sciences and Chemical Safety Board.

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With over 60,000 employees, Ingersoll-Rand’s engineering global services team needed a solution that could support global collaboration and integrate the most up-to-date technical information with design, analytic and search tools.

Ingersoll Rand also needed to see a quick return on investment, reduced research times and reduced costs. Learn how their implementation strategy with Knovel led to significant results in streamlining project research, time savings, and keeping up with global regulations.

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