Shermco Industries hosted an event on Thursday, July 16 in celebration of an employee development collaboration with the Dallas County Community College District. The Texas Workforce Commission provided a Skills Development Fund grant of $151,000 through which employees will receive continuing education and skills training provided by North Lake College in Irving, Texas. Shermco provides generator…
Shermco Industries expands service coverage with EMS acquisition
Ron Widup, president and CEO of Shermco Industries, recently announced that the company has acquired Electrical Mechanical Services (EMS) of St. Paul, Minn., as a next step in expanding its service coverage in the Midwest. EMS services include electric motor and generator repair and remanufacturing, motor and generator field services, machining services, vibration analysis, machinery…
Shermco Industries to host NERC/FERC Compliance Symposium
Shermco Industries, the largest independent electrical testing and maintenance company in North America, will host the 2014 North American Electric Reliability Corporation/Federal Energy Regulation Commission Compliance Symposium on Sept. 17-18 at the Hotel Derek, 2525 West Loop South, in Houston, Texas. The symposium will focus on learning NERC/FERC implementation, updates, best practices and compliance and…
Shermco’s Jim White conducts training session at NTI annual event
Jim White, training director for Shermco Industries and author of “Electrical Safety – A Practical Guide to OSHA and NFPA 70E,” is guest presenting a class on overcurrent protection and co-teaching a National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee electrical safety class at the National Training Institute in Ann Arbor, Mich. this week. His training is…
Kevin Alewine will co-present webcast on reparing gearboxes and generators
On July 24 at 2pm EST, Kevin Alewine of Shermco Industries will participate as a co-presenter in a Windpower Engineering & Development webcast on repairing gearboxes and generators. Entitled “Repairing Wind Turbine Components: Gearboxes and Generators,” the webcast will address generator failure modes and the latest innovations in remanufacturing. Wind-turbine-gearbox and generator failures are a…
Shermco announces new field services manager
Shermco Industries, provider of testing, commissioning, maintenance, repair and remanufacturing of electrical equipment and power distribution systems, recently promoted Scott Tupper to Machine Services Division field services manager. Tupper was previously the manager of the Irving based MSD field service group, but will now be responsible for overseeing all MSD industrial and utility field services…
Shermco promotes Kevin Alewine to Director of Marketing
At the annual Shermco Sales Summit this month, Ron Widup announced the promotion of Kevin Alewine to director of marketing. Formerly the director of renewable energy services at Shermco Industries, Alewine’s new responsibilities involve overseeing Shermco’s corporate marketing efforts in both the USA and Canada. His responsibilities will include market development and strategic planning as…
Laser cladding to make worn main shafts like new
A laser-cladding process developed by Caterpillar Inc. to repair wear and damage to large axels on mining trucks is applicable to worn or damaged main shafts of wind turbines. At a recent O&M Summit, Kristin Schipull, a metallurgist with Caterpillar (www.cat.com), showed how the process works and reported that repaired axels match the performance of…