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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
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The Department Of Energy (DOE) -- Power Marketing Administration (PMA) is an organization dedicated to the marketing of electricity generated from government hydroelectric dams, management of the transmission and distribution grids and economic development. To achieve its mission, the PMA has substantial technical and engineering capability, contract management expertise, good relationships with the major public utilities as well coordination and cooperation with state and local governments.
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 02:53 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.
According to Eurekalert, the news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Phoenix Processor, which sets a low-power record, is intended for use in cutting-edge sensor-based devices such as medical implants, environment monitors or surveillance equipment.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 08:42 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
San Antonio - The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop.
RFID is an automatic identification technology that stores and remotely retrieves data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves.
The move towards RFID technology continues to rise in both the retail and manufacturing sectors. In 2005, Wal-Mart mandated that all its top suppliers have RFID tags on pallets carrying products delivered to all Wal-Mart Distribution Warehouses. Now more manufacturers are implementing RFID systems into their distribution systems.
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Tuesday 17 June, 2008 12:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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SALT LAKE CITY - Cimetrix announced today a secured design win for its CIMConnect product from centrotherm, a leading supplier of technology and production equipment for the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries. Centrotherm selected CIMConnect for use on a number of tools, including horizontal and vertical furnaces for semiconductor production as well as PECVD and diffusion furnaces for solar cell production.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 08:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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For nearly 40 years scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. They just couldn't find it. Now, researchers at Hewlett-Packard have proven them right with a discovery they hope will lead to memory chips that store more data but consume far less power than those found in today's personal computers and other digital devices.
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Saturday 14 June, 2008 12:58 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Yaskawa Becomes First Manufacturer to Ship 10 Million Drives
Yaskawa Electric, a manufacturer of AC drives, servomotors, motion controllers and robotics, recently became the world’s first to ship 10 million variable frequency drives. In reaching this milestone, the company now claims to have more than 14 percent of the global market for drives rated from 0.1 to 300kW.
Yaskawa boasts more than 30 years of growth, helping manufacturers contain production costs.
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Wednesday 11 June, 2008 04:00 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors , research that could result in the design of better superconductors for use in industry, medicine, transportation and energy generation.
In an article published today in the journal Nature, the team, led by Chia-Ling Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics and director of the Material Research Science and Engineering Center at The Johns Hopkins University, offers insights into why the characteristics of a new family of iron-based superconductors reveal the need for fresh theoretical models which could, they say, pave the way for the development of superconductors that can operate at room temperature.
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Tuesday 10 June, 2008 06:47 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
Jamie Furness looks at the role distributors can play in supporting motion control designs.
Effective control of electric motors is an essential element in the design of a wide range of electronic applications, from home appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines to industrial systems such as pumps and conveyors. What’s more, in recent years there has been a move away from traditional mechanical ‘on/off’ control of such motors to variable speed solutions that can deliver significant advantages in terms of improved efficiencies, flexible functionality and lower levels of electrical and acoustic noise.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 06:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
The department’s hands-on teaching style and practical training allow students to prepare for careers in numerous areas of electrical engineering.
Lamar’s electrical engineering students have participated in robotics competitions since 2003. The robots are part of the capstone activity for senior electrical engineering students. Along with building working robots, students also create display boards to explain their designs.
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Tuesday 3 June, 2008 06:18 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
The chairman of Electronics Scotland tells Terry Murden how the sector is surviving the overseas exodus.
IT was more than 20 years ago that the Americans and Japanese poured investment into a new Scottish industry that helped transform a nation in decline.
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Sunday 1 June, 2008 08:31 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
Emerson Process Management has been selected by the Zhejiang Changxing Glass Co., Ltd. and the Zhejiang Pinghu Glass Co., Ltd. to engineer and install PlantWeb® digital architecture with DeltaV™ automation systems and Emerson’s intelligent field devices in new glass plants in the Zhejiang Province. The projects will be the first for plant wide use of FOUNDATION™ fieldbus in China’s glass industry.
A core component of PlantWeb architecture, Emerson’s DeltaV digital automation systems will power the Smart Plant operation with the most advanced automation technology in the glass industry. In addition to installation savings, the PlantWeb architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus is expected to improve product output and quality through digital reliability and functionality, highly accurate measurements, and advanced diagnostics from the intelligent field devices.
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Saturday 31 May, 2008 08:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
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Siemens Industry Automation CEO, Anton Huber, kicked off the event by presenting the Division’s organizational structure and business results for the past year. Mr. Huber reported orders and sales were up by over 17 percent for the first half of 2008. He pointed to the successful integration of Siemens PLM in three key areas: People and Processes, a Go to Market and Customer strategy, and Products & Technology. Mr. Huber also highlighted the considerable progress and advancement of the Archimedes Project, a formidable undertaking announced a year ago to integrate Siemens Automation with the extensive PLM solution set of UGS.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 08:37 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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Let me ask you a question: When you think of Boeing (BA), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC) and NASA, as an American how do you feel? These three companies have provided Americans with the means for long distance travel for business and to see loved ones, great jobs, financial security, innovative computing, electrical and health products; in fact, you could credit these companies with making great contributions to improving your quality of life. And in the case of NASA, inspiration for all Americans and pride in their country at what their countrymen can achieve.
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Friday 30 May, 2008 02:55 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
The semiconductor industry's dilemma of profitless growth has a solution, according to Jean-Philippe Dauvin, one of the experts of independent consultancy and market research firm Decision.
In Dauvin's view, Europe's electronics industry for example, is well positioned to expedite growth and achieve better margins in the coming years, provided it is willing to make some changes to exploit opportunities in higher-margin sectors.
"Some of the major semiconductor companies in Europe will move very quickly. The future will provide some positive surprises," said Dauvin. In this interview, the economist outlined the growth opportunities and some tactics to exploit them.
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Monday 19 May, 2008 09:49 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA (May 2008) Soaring energy prices, global competition, and shortages of skilled labor is resulting in greater pressure on process plants . Process industries across the board, from hydrocarbon production and refining to chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech, are looking for ways to remain profitable, more efficient, and green. Operations staffs, in all these industries, face increased competitive demand for skilled plant operators, government oversight, regulation, and fiduciary liability.
Competitive pressures from a global marketplace are compelling process plant managers to make investments in automation systems and new technology. In many process plants in North America and Western Europe, aging control systems and automation infrastructure restrict capacity and put operational goals at risk. In developing countries and new “Greenfield” plants, users are compelled to invest in the latest technology to remain competitive in the long term. However, in both cases, process plants have a zero tolerance for downtime, requiring that automation systems work correctly the first time.
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Thursday 15 May, 2008 08:22 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Scientists and engineers across Europe have joined forces in a unique collaborative effort to develop a new generation of high-brightness lasers that will transform the fields of healthcare, communications and entertainment.
The €16.25m (with €9.7m of European Commission funding) project called WWW.BRIGHTER.EU, which runs until September 2009, has brought 22 of Europe's top research teams together from industry, internationally-recognised research laboratories and leading academic institutions to achieve the next quantum leap in this multi-billion Euro field by making lasers smaller, brighter, more efficient — and cheaper.
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Saturday 10 May, 2008 06:03 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Diversified engineering and project management company, SSI, is providing a range of services to three stadiums related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
SSI was awarded a contract for electrical installations at the 48 000-seater Nelson Mandela stadium, an official 2010 FIFA World Cup venue stadium, in Port Elizabeth, by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 06:06 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
HP Labs hopes it has created the basis for a fourth basic integrated circuit element which promises to produce computing devices with instant startup and non-volatile memory.
Dubbed a 'memristor' – short for 'memory resistor' – the device joins the three most fundamental elements of circuits currently known: the resistor, capacitor, and inductor.
The groundwork for the device was started back in 1971 when Professor Leon Chua of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department of the University of California at Berkeley published a paper featuring a mathematical model showing the theory behind a memristor, but was unable to use the technology available at the time to actually prove its existence, much less create a viable example.
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 10:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
No, the idea of a permanent magnet self-powering motor has been pursued by many inventors, and by some of them successfully. The Steorn group in Ireland had and have such a working motor, but did not understand the vacuum interaction ongoing in the asymmetry of the motor. They also did not understand that the local vacuum (and its interaction with one's motor or other gadget using energy from the vacuum) can vary from place to place, as pointed out to Frank Golden and I by Professor William Tiller, former head of the Materials Science Department at Stanford. Tiller had run into that specific effect and so had become aware that one often “grew an archetype or conditioned form” in that local vacuum exchange with one’s system. He himself had had a system demonstrate this “growth” of Tiller’s “archetype” for his special detector.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 02:09 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Having an MRI exam, an experience many people describe as stressful and uncomfortable, could soon become a bit more pleasant, thanks to the work of a team of University of Florida engineering students.
The students have designed a headset that shows promise of reducing the extremely loud, repetitive, industrial-like noises that accompany magnetic resonance image examinations. The noises, which range from beeping to whirring to grinding and can often be as loud as a jet engine, stem from the workings of the powerful magnets at the heart of the machines’ ability to produce sharply defined internal images of the body or body parts.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 06:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
BENGALURU, India — India's design services market grew to $6 billion in 2007, up from $4.6 billion in the previous year. According to a study released Tuesday (April 22) by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA), the design sector is expected to grow by over 21 percent during the next three years on a compounded annual growth basis to $10.96 billion.
In 2007, VLSI design services employed 13,900 engineers and workers, accounting for $766 million of India's total design services, while hardware and board design services employed 9,400 workers and accounted for $386 million. Embedded software services, employing 106,000 staffers, constituted the lion's share with $4.9 billion.
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