EMC Canada

Join us in downtown Calgary for an evening of connection, conversation, and community during Stampede Week. This informal networking event brings together manufacturers, industry peers, community partners, and regional leaders who are helping elevate and strengthen the manufacturing sector across Calgary and Southern Alberta.

Join EMC members and sector manufacturers for a special presentation on ‘Circular Economy’. Circular economy principles hold immense potential for reshaping manufacturing by offering new perspectives on production processes. Prioritizing resource efficiency and waste reduction, this approach not only minimizes environmental impact but also enhances economic viability.

Alberta’s metal manufacturing sector is operating in a highly tariff-sensitive environment, where steel and aluminum tariffs, rising input costs, supply chain disruption, and trade uncertainty can affect competitiveness, hiring, and workforce planning decisions. EMC is hosting a sector webinar to show how our new tariff impact labour market initiative will generate practical workforce profiles and planning tools tailored to the realities of metal manufacturers.

As workplaces evolve through changes in technology and work organization, ergonomics programs are being challenged to adapt. Workers are no longer confined to traditional desks and fixed workstations— they work from home, in vehicles, at hoteling stations, and on mobile devices, introducing new physical, cognitive, and psychosocial risk factors that are not always addressed by traditional ergonomics approaches. At the same time, emerging technologies such as AI-based video task analysis, wearable sensors, and exoskeletons promise new ways to identify risk and enhance human performance. But what do these tools truly offer?