Shermco to add Spark and Speakeasy to PowerTest 2013

Feb. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- NEW ORLEANS  – Shermco Industries will provide experts to speak in a variety of tracks at this year’s PowerTest 2013 Electrical Maintenance & Safety Conference, to be held Feb. 18-21 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. It will also host a speakeasy-themed hospitality suite, “Spark your electrical knowledge and speak, easy!”

The Shermco speakeasy will be on Monday night, Feb. 18, from 6 to 10 p.m. and will feature music from the roaring 20s, after-dinner drinks, professional cigar roller, and complimentary food, cigars, cigar cutters, matches and souvenir snifters.

Shermco professionals will provide the following training for the conference’s educational tracks.  Jim White will be the Safety Panel moderator, and will present Electrical Safety Myths and Misconceptions, as well as Hazards of Electricity, Shock, Arc and Blast: An Educational Journey Through Case Studies. Mike Hancock will present Are You Really Testing Your Instrument Transformers. Mike Moore will speak on Finding and Retaining Qualified Electrical Workers: It's About Safety in the Workplace. Calvin Earp will moderate a panel of industry experts on Motors and Generators.  Malcom Frederick and Jim Miller will present The Field Repair and Adjustment of Low-Voltage Power Circuit Breakers.

“We are always proud to be a part of PowerTest. This is the most important electrical safety and maintenance conference each year,” said Widup. “Every year the subject matter experts are of the highest caliber and the material is the most relevant and timely. We’re looking forward to this year being no exception.”

For more information on the workshop, visit http://www.powertest.org/conference.

ABOUT SHERMCO

Shermco Industries (http://www.shermco.com/) is a provider of safe, reliable testing, repair, professional training, maintenance and analysis of rotating apparatus and electrical power distribution systems and related equipment for the light, medium, and heavy industrial base nationwide. Founded in 1974 in Dallas, the company is comprised of two strategic business units; the Machine Services Division and the Engineering Services Division. With a corporate location in Irving, Texas, a sales office in Brussels and service centers in Austin, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Houston, San Antonio, Sweetwater, and Tulsa, Shermco Industries has over 440 full-time employees. The company is a member in good standing with the Electrical Apparatus Service Association, American Wind Energy Association, Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League, and the InterNational Electrical Testing Association. For more information about Shermco Industries, visit www.shermco.com.