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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
Few innovators, creators, thinkers and dreamers have had the flair of Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion.
He was flamboyant, nearly to a fault, a playboy who lived life to the fullest and enjoyed the sense of adventure nearly as much as he loved finding a better invention.
What a perfect mix, that energy and engineering foresight.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 10:38 AM |
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Lattice Technology , developers of the XVL ultra-compressed 3D format, today announced the release of the XVL Converter Plug-in for Inventor, which supports Autodesk Inventor 2009. The XVL converter is scheduled to ship on June 30, 2008. The XVL Translator Add-in for Inventor 2008 is already available for free download from Autodesk Labs
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 08:36 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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Evolution Solar Corp . has entered into negotiations to acquire a Hong Kong-based R&D and Procurement Company. Evolution Solar most recently announced its plans to develop alternative energy technologies using thin film solar panels.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 06:34 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
A local manufacturer of steel products for the mining industry, VR Steel, has expanded its footprint inter-nationally with the establishment of VRC Mining Equipment, a China-based company that will make dragline buckets, hydraulic and rope-shovel buckets and truck bodies for the East Asia and Pacific regions.
VRC Mining Equipment is a partnership between VR Steel and Connaught Engineer-ing (CE), a manufacturing and engineering company based in Hong Kong. VR Steel has a 66,67% stake in VRC Mining Equipment.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 04:33 AM |
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Siemens VAI is reorganizing its Russian business. “The share of Russian value added to our projects in the iron and steel industry will more than treble in the next two years”, Werner Auer, CFO of international plant builder Siemens VAI, announced to the press in Yekaterinburg on Thursday. “By acquiring other companies, establishing joint ventures and using our own resources, we intend to expand our network for engineering, plant and maintenance services in order to be closer to the customer”, said Andreas Lemp, who is responsible for business in the Russian iron and steel industry
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 02:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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At ARC’s European Manufacturing Automation Forum (EMAF), held in Frankfurt, Germany last month, attendees heard speeches from end users and suppliers on a variety of subjects ranging from Emerging Technologies to the Digital Factory.
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Saturday 21 June, 2008 12:30 AM |
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TITAN is a bit of a hulk . It can lift a BMW into the air with just one arm, swing it around and then set it down again in exactly the same spot with barely a quiver. Moving cars is a piece of cake for the world's strongest robot. Built by KUKA, a large German robot-maker, Titan lifts 1,000kg and with its arm extended is as tall as a giraffe. It works out by moving huge concrete structures, steel-castings and pallets loaded with glass.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 10:29 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Getting rid of garbage is a problem anywhere, but particularly at forward operating bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pair that with the constant need for fuel and the push for alternative energy sources, and you have the stuff of science fiction - the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery, or TGER, which is already turning trash into energy at Camp Victory, Iraq.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 09:40 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
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ROCK HILL, S.C.-3D Systems Corporation, a leading provider of 3-D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, has announced that it will run a newly developed polypropylene-based material on its Sinterstation® Pro SLS® System at the Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo (DMS) from June 25-27, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 08:28 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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Neah Power Systems , Inc. a leading developer of fuel cells for military, industrial and consumer portable electronic devices, announced today that it has selected Sanmina-SCI Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM) for its engineering development and manufacturing support in commercializing its silicon based fuel cell systems. Sanmina-SCI is a leading systems solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 06:27 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
A US University is to study if people and their communities would be be healthier if they still got food from local farms?
The research team, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system.
The team will establish a Gillings Innovation Laboratory (GIL) through the UNC School of Public Health. The project will be the eighth laboratory established through a generous gift to the School by Dennis and Joan Gillings.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 05:42 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - On Monday of this week the FCX Clarity - Honda's hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle - came off the line at the world's first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility in Japan. After 19 years of development, the arrival of this 'real world' fuel cell car marks the beginning of a new era of cleaner motoring. click this link to read more
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Friday 20 June, 2008 04:25 PM |
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New Brunswick's energy exports account for 57% of the Canadian province's overall exports, and this percentage is set to grow thanks to several recent developments. A new terminal being built by Canaport LNG; a proposed second refinery to be built by Irving Oil; and the proposed construction of a second reactor at Point Lepreau Generating Station, along with ongoing refurbishment of the existing reactor will all help the province become one of North America's leading energy exporters.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 02:23 PM |
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What will the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic torches look like and how will the cauldron showcase the Olympic Flame at BC Place Stadium on February 12, 2010? While the answers will remain a surprise for months to come, Bombardier has received the honour of designing and manufacturing the iconic torches and cauldrons for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 01:28 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
They call it "wind turbine in a box," a simple off-the-shelf but high-performance wind turbine.
The innovative wind turbine is the first major launch of a commercial product from the Grand Valley State University energy center in Muskegon. Plans are to sell the turbine at home improvement stores for less than $2,000 to homeowners who can use it to provide up to 20 percent of their electricity.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 12:22 PM |
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An engineering expert has claimed corrosion is a common factor in gas pipeline explosions, as Apache Energy refused to discuss pictures which purportedly show that the damaged pipe metal was as thin as a “matchstick”.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 10:21 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
Tata owned Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR) has announced a major drive to recruit 600 engineers and technical staff to work on its 700-million-pounds projects to develop a new generation of cleaner and more eco-friendly vehicles.
The initiative comes only weeks after JLR was bought by Indian car giant Tata Motors from Ford for 1.5 billion pounds. The former is not directly involved with the project though it has approved the new plan.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 09:26 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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The popularity of Citroen vehicles is based on the firm's novel designs, which exemplify French style and sense. While enhancing user-friendliness and continually developing cutting-edge designs, the French company is positioning itself as one of Europe's leading eco-friendly automakers. In this ninth installment in a series on the world's high-end brands, Citroen President Gilles Michel speaks with Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Hiroyuki Nakamura about future strategies.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 08:19 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Alstom is the world’s leading supplier of “conventional islands” (or “turbine islands”) for nuclear power plants, and has fitted close to 180 units around the globe. More than 30% of the world’s nuclear power stations operating today use Alstom-made equipment.
Alstom has recently set up major agreements in China, Korea and the United States which confirm its position as a leading supplier for nuclear power generation. These agreements apply either to new equipment and associated engineering or to the retrofitting of existing equipment.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 06:18 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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This year the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) successfully conducted the Common Entrance Test and CET counselling is now on in full swing. The counselling for students who opted for the engineering stream has just started and will go on until all the seats are distribute.
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Friday 20 June, 2008 04:16 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Technip has been awarded a lumpsum installation contract by Callon Petroleum Company for the Entrada oil field development in the Gulf of Mexico.
click this link to read more
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Friday 20 June, 2008 02:15 AM |
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