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Electrical & Process Control
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IRVINE, CA - EADS North America Test and Services , a division of EADS North America, today announced a contract from Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company for its 5032 Environmental Stress Screening System. Toshiba will be using the 5032 for reliability testing of its newest 40/45nm semiconductor production technology.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 05:13 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Singapore's industrial production in May slumped by a much-bigger-than-expected 12.8 percent from a year ago, pulled down by a 55.1 percent drop in biomedical output, the government said on Thursday.
Analysts had projected a fall of 2.5 percent for May.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, industrial output last month fell 5.7 percent from April, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said in its monthly report.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 04:55 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
A two-day conference designed to encourage manufacturers to embrace sustainability wasn't even doable a decade ago, Birgit Klohs says.
Back then, sustainability was a concept embraced by few, and they were often "tree huggers" and environmental regulators that came "to tell you how to run your company and live with all those rules and regulations that they had," said Klohs, president and CEO of the Right Place Inc. in Grand Rapids.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 02:38 PM |
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Researchers at the university's Institute of Industrial Research are developing the artificial intelligence software that will be used in the CCTV cameras. The technology can identify minor visual cues such as whether a car aerial is up or if the car has a dent and alerts the people concerned.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 12:32 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
As South Africa’s infrastructure and capacity build-out for 2010 accelerates, tech innovator Tellumat is adding steadily to its already impeccable tech supply credentials.
The company’s standing in telecoms, defence and electronic manufacturing and supply continues to grow, with a formidable increase in its portfolio of products, services and capacity over the last few months.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 10:37 AM |
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When I was asked to write a monthly column for Product Design & Development, I asked if there was anything special I should focus on, other than product design and development, of course. She suggested that this issue was going to deal with time-to-market, and it might be nice to at least start with something relevant to that issue before I wander off into the ether.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 08:28 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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The majority of Canadian manufacturers responding to a new Deloitte survey paint a positive picture of their experiences with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Yet they struggle to remain competitive globally as the lack of competitiveness of production activity in Canada remains the industry's Achilles heel.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 06:36 AM |
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ISLAMABAD: The Chinese government has offered Pakistan to provide skilled labour for the construction of the Bhasha Dam , sources told Daily Times Tuesday.
Chinese government has conveyed to Pakistani government that it has 17,000 skilled labourers who worked on three Gorges Dams in China and these dams were generating 30,000MW electricity. It had also informed Pakistan that these labourers could be provided to construct Basha Diamer Dam.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 04:25 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
There is this sort of belief floating around that the increasing costs of energy are going to drive increases in efficiency, and so this is a good thing.
This is a belief that is held by economists, tree huggers, joe public, and in fact just about everyone who isn't an actual engineer.
All it takes is US$200 bbl oil and Ford will stop making Suburban SUV's and start making Volkswagen Rabbits... The ONLY reason Ford don't make a VW Rabbit now is no one would buy one... allegedly... no engineer believes this for a second.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 02:35 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A car given by Adolf Hitler to the king of Nepal is headed to a museum.
Hitler gave the 1939 Mercedes to King Tribhuvan, grandfather of just-ousted King Gyanendra. A special assembly voted to abolish the monarchy last month.
In recent years, the car has been at an engineering college in Katmandu, which was using it to train mechanics. The school doesn't have the money or parts to restore the vehicle.
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 12:56 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
BERLIN, - If the U.S. economy slows, China suffers and so do the German firms that supply the Chinese with manufacturing machinery. Right?
Not necessarily.
Some German firms that supply Chinese industries with export exposure are indeed suffering as the U.S economic downturn lowers U.S. demand for Chinese products, and in turn Chinese demand for the German capital goods used to make them.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 10:33 PM |
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Oil talk by anyone not associated with serious knowledge of offshore oil work can be amusing, at best. Mr Bush saying the opening of offshore waters will ease gasoline prices is dreamy.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 08:48 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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There's no doubt that many scientists are looking to nature for mechanical inspiration. This past spring we have seen robotic bugs, robo-fish, and perhaps even the promise of a robotic dolphin.
For its design of a robot for use inside pipes, the SINTEF ICT part of the SINTEF Group, a Norway-based technology research company, was inspired by snakes.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:44 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Thousands of North East youngsters have come face-to-face with the future on Wearside.
The Youth Engineering Show (Yes) at Rainton Meadows has attractions including Honda's Asimo, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, and a man versus machine face-off which sees challengers pit their wits against one of Nissan's production-line robots in a buzzer game.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:31 PM |
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NEEDHAM, Mass. The Product Development Company® , today announced that Wrightbus, the UK manufacturing division of Wright Group and one of Europe’s leading providers of passenger transport solutions, has adopted Windchill® for product lifecycle management (PLM). Windchill, the PTC content and process management solution, has enabled Wrightbus to significantly improve its collaborative product development processes. Wrightbus has been a user of PTC’s integrated CAD/CAM/CAE solution, Pro/ENGINEER® since 2000, and the selection of Windchill provides Wrightbus with the additional benefits of the PTC integral Product Development System (PDS) strengthening the business processes that keep this innovative and award winning company ahead of its global competition.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 02:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
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They call diamonds “ice,” and not just because they sparkle. Engineers and physicists have long studied diamond because even though the material is as hard as an ice ball to the head, diamond slips and slides with remarkably low friction, making it an ideal material or coating for seals, high performance tools and high-tech moving parts.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:43 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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Fluor Corporation announced today its polysilicon project in China for LDK Solar , the world-class solar wafer manufacturer, logged more than 2 million craft hours without a single safety incident effective through the end of April 2008. The LDK Polysilicon manufacturing facility, when complete, will be the largest polysilicon production facility of its kind in the world.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 10:06 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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A solar powered boat constructed by a group of mechanical engineering undergraduates from Imperial College London competes in Europe’s only solar-powered boat race today.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 08:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Vision Engineering has despatched its 1000th Hawk non-contact measuring system to a fresh food packaging firm, Cryovac, to measure packaging film.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 06:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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In July, on a typically oppressive summer day in Washington, D.C., roughly a thousand college students from across the country gathered at a Marriott hotel with plans to change the world . Despite being sponsored by the Center for American Progress, a moderate think tank founded by one of Bill Clinton’s former chiefs of staff, John Podesta, the student group—called Campus Progress—leans decidedly farther to the left. At booths outside the main auditorium, young activists handed out pamphlets opposing nuclear power, high pay for CEOs, excessive profits for oil companies, harsh prison sentences for drug users, and Israeli militarism in Gaza and the West Bank
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 04:27 AM |
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SIPA enters the market for horizontal presses for PET and PP preforms with its first model of a new family of machines manufactured completely in the Hanghzhou plant in China, where the company has been manufacturing dies for blowing and preforms since 2006.
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Wednesday 25 June, 2008 12:23 AM |
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