Affiliations

PEMAC has agreements or memberships with the following organizations

Annex Business Media – PEMAC Marketing partner

Annex Business Media is one of Canada’s largest business to business (B2B) publishers, producing 40+ B2B magazines and directories, 40+ websites and e-news products, and numerous conferences and events. They also provide a full range of custom printing and publishing services, custom digital media and video production services and event and sponsorship services. Through publications such as PEM Plant Engineering & Maintenance and REM Resource Engineering & Maintenance, Annex is committed to reporting on maintenance best practices and physical asset management in Canada. Their mission is to provide readers with the information they need to increase manufacturing production and equipment uptime, integrate new technology, reduce operating costs, manage groups of skilled professionals and encourage career development and best practices, aligning with the goals of PEMAC.

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Canadian Institute for Nondestructive Evaluation (CINDE)

CINDE Vision

The Canadian Institute for NDE is the recognized NDT society in Canada for key stakeholders such as nondestructive (NDT) testing personnel, companies and academia.

CINDE Mission

The Canadian Institute for NDE advocates the needs and champions the capabilities of the NDT community in Canada and around the world. The Canadian Institute for NDE promotes and participates in the field of nondestructive evaluation, examination and/or testing on a worldwide basis through:

• Member activities & services
• Training and education
• Personnel certification

PEMAC and CINDE have a Memorandum of Understanding to share information and work in a collaborative manner for training, certification and member services relating to nondestructive testing, maintenance, reliability and physical asset management issues.

Canadian Network of Asset Managers (CNAM)

CNAM leads an inclusive and multi-disciplinary approach for municipal infrastructure asset management, resulting in reliable public services that support the wellbeing of Canadians and sustainable communities. As a national leader for municipal infrastructure asset management, CNAM is a recognized source of knowledge, promotes innovation and collaboration, and provides a common voice to facilitate action. CNAM’s mandate is “by municipalities, for municipalities” to ensure that the municipal infrastructure asset management agenda is managed in the best interest of Canadian municipalities. CNAM is providing a forum for municipalities to exchange information related to municipal infrastructure asset management from both operational and strategic perspectives. Information exchange among municipalities is critical to optimizing the benefits of asset management when people and financial resources at municipalities are limited. Municipal infrastructure asset management is increasingly important as a means to ensuring healthy and vibrant cities for citizens.

Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE)

The Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) is a professional association of deans, directors, senior administrative personnel and practitioners whose professional careers are in university continuing education in Canada. The mission of the association is to enlarge the scope and quality of educational opportunities for adults at the university level by enhancing the stature and expertise of those institutions and individuals devoted to providing those opportunities. Although our focus is on university continuing education, our publications, programs and services are of interest to all continuing educators.

Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management

 The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) is an association of professional maintenance and asset management societies formed for the purpose of knowledge creation and sharing and for information exchange among our member societies. 

The objectives of the GFMAM are:

• To bring together, promote and strengthen the maintenance and asset management community worldwide;
• To support the establishment and development of associations or institutions whose aims are maintenance and asset management focused;
• To facilitate the exchange and alignment of maintenance and asset management knowledge and practices; and
• To raise the credibility of member organisations by raising the profile of the Global Forum.

Current GFMAM projects include: 

Certification – The Certification project seeks to review existing certification schemes managed by professional associations around the world, compare and describe them. A final draft of the initial work was presented to the Forum in October 2011 in Greensboro, NC and will be available to members on the GFMAM website before December 2011.

Landscape - The Landscape project is essentially a visual presentation of the Asset Management, in its broadest terms, which is being developed to support the GFMAM and its member societies to allow alignment of relevant knowledge and practices. This work was presented to the GFMAM members in its current state as well as to the attendees of the SMRP conference. It is well underway for publishing of a draft document by June 2012.

Accord - The Accord project is in early work stages. Its aim is to assist organizations who wish to develop, align and compare Asset Management Qualifications. Its completion is dependent on elements of the landscape project.

Based on PEMAC's attendance at meetings so far we feel that PEMAC has much to contribute and much to bring back to our members through continued involvement in GFMAM projects and through the exchange of information, products and services between associations that is sure to follow.