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Helsinki, Finland - In preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Finland-based sail maker WB-Sails is using EFD.Lab fluid dynamics simulation software from Flomerics to develop and optimize sails for Star and Finn class Olympic sailboats. "Our traditional panel codes predict sail forces reasonably well in the upwind case, when flow separation is not a major factor, but we were desperate for something more powerful to predict 3D air flow and sail forces on downwind legs and in the lighter winds that we expect in Beijing," said Mikko Brummer, Head of R&D at WB-Sails.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 02:40 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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WPCS International Incorporated , a company involved in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has has entered the wind power industry by acquiring Lincoln Wind LLC of Bettendorf, Iowa for $400,000 in cash.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 12:39 PM |
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For two entire matches, ThunderChickens , Team 217 (Michigan), and its robotic mascot sat like a lame duck. Grant Cox, the team's designated robot driver, frantically pushed the steering stick in various directions, hoping to accomplish with brute force what the infrared signals had failed to do. But the bird wouldn't budge.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 10:42 AM |
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HOUSTON - FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed a five-year agreement with ConocoPhillips Scandinavia AS for the supply of subsea equipment and services for a water injection development in the Ekofisk field. The development is a replacement of the existing Ekofisk 2/4 W injection platform at the southern part of the Ekofisk Complex.
The contract, valued at approximately $120 million, includes the project management, engineering, procurement, manufacture and delivery of subsea equipment and offshore support services for eight subsea trees. The contract also has an option for an additional seven subsea trees and future provisions for up to a total of fifty subsea trees.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 08:37 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — At the Design Automation Conference mid-June in Anaheim, California, an educational panel addressed the thermal issue in integrated circuit (IC) design. Two key questions were raised: When will this issue be emerging as a crucial concern if at all? What are the solutions to solve this potential crisis?
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 06:43 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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An Arizona startup company yesterday asked government regulators for approval to build a massive solar energy power plant that proponents say is crucial to San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed Sunrise Powerlink.
The project planned by Stirling Energy Systems of Phoenix calls for erecting 30,000 mirrored dishes, each 38 feet tall and 40 feet wide, in the desert near El Centro. It would convert solar energy into electricity to power 500,000 San Diego homes.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 04:36 AM |
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Confidex , a fast growing company with unique expertise in RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, recently announced the introduction of Confidex Carrier, the company's new, UHF RFID label for returnable plastic containers. Confidex Carrier is a special label designed to effectively and reliably adhere to plastic surfaces.
Millions of plastic transit items such as totes, crates, and trays are used in various applications that require proven durability under heavy use and challenging environments. Accurately and reliably tracking these plastic items requires an RFID tag solution that is equal to the task.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 02:46 AM |
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North American manufacturers consider the United States the most desirable country for expansion over the next three years, according to a survey released today by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) (www.nam.org), The Manufacturing Institute, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
The largest number of North American companies (44 percent) say they intend to expand production in the United States over the next three years. 57 percent of U.S. manufacturers say they will become more globally competitive over the next five years across the supply chain from sales, marketing and customer service to engineering and information technology.
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Wednesday 2 July, 2008 12:35 AM |
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Ben Gulak's on a roll - literally. The 18-year old Toronto whiz has invented a silent, electrically powered motorcycle with two side-by-side wheels giving the impression of a single tire. He calls his invention the Uno.
"It's similar to the Segway in that it has a couple of gyros and neat electrical sensors," Gulak told the Daily News. "Its top speed is 15 mph, but right now it's in the prototype stage. It's all a matter of time and scale. It'll go faster."
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 10:50 PM |
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CINCINNATI - For manufacturing companies striving for lean ERP , the ability to embrace product and engineering changes is central to achieving responsiveness to demand, according to Mike Burkett, Vice President of Research, AMR Research, Inc. This is especially true for those in aerospace and defense (A&D).
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 08:33 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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A flexible robotic production cell solution has been delivered to Deutsch UK by robotics and automation specialist Aylesbury Automation. The robot-based machine has been introduced as a result of increasing product demand. It assembles a range of similar, two pin electrical plugs and sockets and produces one complete part every six seconds
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:31 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Sydney – Rittal , a leading worldwide provider of electronic packaging technologies, has unveiled its RiCell 5 kW fuel cell system.
Featuring a stand-alone power supply, the RiCell is suitable for an extensive range of applications in transport and environmental technology, power engineering, IT and telecommunications.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 02:43 PM |
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It is 1am and Ashok Alange prays for a safe trip , lighting incense sticks before the miniature statue of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh that he keeps fixed to his truck’s dashboard.
His second driver, Hanmunt Sagar, climbs aboard the locally made Eicher 9-tonne vehicle, which is laden with cans of paint and chemicals. Together they begin the journey from the yard of Patel Integrated Logistics, in Thane near Mumbai in Maharashtra state, to Ahmedabad, the capital of neighbouring Gujarat.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 12:41 PM |
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Oxford's so-called hamburger roundabout has won an award for its innovative and practical design.
The junction, nicknamed because the A40 cuts through its centre, was constructed to ease congestion around one of the city's busiest bottlenecks.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 10:45 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
In January 2008 TenCate acquired 75% of the shares of Xennia Technology Ltd . near Cambridge (UK). The main reason for this acquisition is primarily to accelerate the opportunity to use inkjet technology to produce technical textiles. Inkjet technology has the potential to replace existing finishing and coating technologies and create new materials for the technical textiles sector.
Within the Digitex R&D project, which is subsidized by the EU Commission, TenCate, Xennia, Xaar and other companies and institutes have worked together in order to use inkjet technology to create breakthrough innovations in technical textiles for the European sector.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 08:40 AM |
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BEIJING: This ancient capital city , long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting a new look that could have been plucked from science fiction.
A series of landmarks, notable for their futuristic design, will greet visitors to the Olympics. They include an Olympic stadium that looks like a giant bird's nest, a swimming venue literally built of bubbles and a pair of black office towers that lean toward each other at a 10-degree angle.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 06:47 AM |
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The one-year Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership (PGPEX-VLM), conducted by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), is nearing its successful completion.
Participants are getting ready for the international study visit early July where they visit facilities of Japan Honda Saitama Factory, Kao logistics center, Hino Motors, Sharp, Yao factory, Patlite, Kasai Recycling Systems, Toyota, Panasonic House of History, Panasonic HRD College, and Toyota commemorative museum of industry and technology.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:38 AM |
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VANCOUVER - Seismically upgrading Vancouver city hall would be expensive and could change the look of the heritage building, so engineers are considering an innovative way to save it during an earthquake: lifting up the structure and putting a rubber foundation underneath.
The rubber would absorb the vibrations of a large tremor and protect the old building from being too badly damaged, said Garrick Bradshaw, city hall's director of facility design and management.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 02:48 AM |
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London and Cairo - Ulf Henriksson, Chief Executive Officer of Invensys plc, visited Cairo today to finalise a joint venture between Invensys Process Systems (IPS), ENPPI and GASCO that will train hundreds of Egyptian engineers and establish Egypt’s first Industrial Automation Engineering Centre of Excellence. The joint venture will play a significant role in the modernisation of the Egyptian petroleum industry, helping Egypt increase refinery utilization, maximise productivity and minimise maintenance costs.
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 12:37 AM |
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As you drive through the security barriers and past Route de Albert Einstein towards the old canteen where, it is said, many of the greatest leaps in our understanding of the universe had their genesis over a cup of strong Swiss coffee and a Gauloise, you cannot fail but sigh with relief that, in one tiny corner of the world, pure exploration continues, relatively unsullied.
Cern is noble, essential and precious; an almost utopian village of ten thousand physicists and engineers from 85 countries, formed by a recovering Europe after the second world war
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Monday 30 June, 2008 10:00 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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AMMAN - Jordan's first nuclear plant is looming in sight as it inked a preliminary nuclear cooperation deal with Britain on Sunday, the third one in a month with Western nuclear powers on pumping nuclear energy.
Under the latest deal, Britain and Jordan will jointly promote "the establishment of a reliable source of nuclear fuel for future civilian light water nuclear reactors" in the Arab kingdom, said Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission Khalid Touqan.
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Monday 30 June, 2008 08:35 PM |
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