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Happy New Year from Japan

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2012.

The 'Year of the Dragon' sees PDS move into its 6th year of operation with our Director, Peter McCurdy, making a return trip to see family in Niseko on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

After a devastating Tsunami left a trail of destruction on the main island of Honshu on the 11th March 2011, Niseko is reportedly seeing one of its strongest snow seasons in many years. Low snow falls in both the US and Europe are seeing a growing number of visitors return for the world renown 'Powder Snow' that Niseko is famous for.

PDS Sponsors NU Racing Team

Productivity Development Solutions is proud to be a sponsor of the Newcastle University Racing Team for 2011. NU Racing brings together a team of students to design and build a race car to compete in the Australasian Formula SAE-A Championship. This small open wheel race car is then entered into a national end of year competition event to determine the best/fastest design.

Some of the opportunities NU Racing provides for students include:

Updated Release of CcMS.Mobile (Idler Management) Edition

With the year end beating down our door, we have been receiving considerable valuable feedback on the user experience, functionality and some potential new ideas for our CcMS.Mobile products. Some of the more clever operational improvement ideas from our customers has seen us releasing an out-of-cycle update to our CcMS.Mobile (Idler Management) software.

The new release includes the following additional features:

Launch of CcMS.Mobile (Idler Management) Edition

As the global economy improves, the resource market in Australia moves from strength to strength. This being said mining companies are now investing time, effort and money in condition monitoring, reliability engineering and asset management. The costs in implementing preventative maintenance strategies in the long run are outweighed by the reduction in RM costs and the increases in OEE.