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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today responded to the findings from a series of Industry Sector Insight reports unveiled by Aberdeen Group.
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 07:49 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
They are all dressed up but have nowhere to go. An avalanche of cash has been promised to the motor manufacturers, many billions of dollars, enough to finance a fleet of glittering new models, but it's probably too late.
Instead of producing jaw-dropping designs and awesome gadgetry, the money pile will dribble away in support of old factories turning out retro-fashioned cars powered by yesterday's technology.
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 07:48 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, said today that the company's method of recycling CO2 into fuel provides the most direct path and a substantial cost advantage over processes that produce renewable fuels from terrestrial crops.
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 03:47 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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In order to create batteries with sufficient stored energy to drive electric vehicles and the next generation of long life electronics, advances in battery technology are vitally needed. One key target for improvement in lithium ion batteries are the electrodes, which transmit current into the battery. Losses at the electrodes both limit the batteries' efficiency and lengthen their charge time. So when Rice Researchers were looking to give batteries a boost, they came up with a clever idea -- put the electrons "behind bars".
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 11:46 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Bob Lutz's impact on General Motors ' future vehicle programs started within weeks of joining the automaker on Sept. 1, 2001.
He targeted GM's bland car styling, the result of cost cuts in the early 1990s when GM was considering a bankruptcy filing. He also arrived when the hideous Pontiac Aztek was the talk of the town.
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 07:44 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
THE commission of inquiry into last year’s tragedy at a building site in Kampala has come up with a damning report, showing gross negligence by most of those involved in the sh147b project.
The 23-floor Pension Towers, belonging to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was being constructed by Roko Construction.
Alterations of the project design without approval, inadequate site supervision and the use of unqualified staff by Roko was responsible for the disaster that killed seven workers and injured scores when a retainer wall collapsed on them on October 14, 2008.
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 02:12 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
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Part 1 - Variable nozzle turbines (VNT) were supposed to be the killer turbo technology - the wastegateless design able to be matched to engines to give excellent response throughout the rev range. And, while they have been adopted in huge numbers in diesel engine applications, problems associated with the high exhaust gas temperatures of petrol engines have continued to prevent their more widespread use in passenger cars. Part2 - No matter how well it is matched to an engine, a turbocharger still has poor low-load performance. This is because the performance of the compressor (the part of the turbo that pumps air into the engine) is dependent on its speed of rotation. Since it is connected straight to the turbine, before the compressor can turn quickly enough to move significant amounts of air into the engine, there needs to be sufficient exhaust gas flow to whiz the turbine around.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 08:07 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
Global mining company achieves significant productivity gains with 3-D mine models developed with Dassault Systèmes finite element analysis software.
In a step change beyond traditional processes, Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA (the Dassault Systèmes’ brand for realistic simulation), is being used to enhance mine design and engineering simulation at a number of major mines around the world. In North and South America, Africa and Australia some of the world’s biggest mining companies are applying FEA technology to evaluate safety and improve design planning, implementation, and operations.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 08:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Iraq has awarded Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts to international companies to build four major new refineries with a combined total capacity of 750,000 bpd, Iraqi oil sources said recently.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 06:05 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
Barefoot elders , children off from school and women dressed in their very finest gathered in the community center in the village of Sengalpaddai in the southern part of India when Rowan University came to call this winter.
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Their attention riveted on two grain crushers, fairly simple mechanical devices designed and constructed by an engineering professor and her students that may make a difference in the villagers' lives.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 03:02 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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Mass-production technology has revolutionized so much of modern life that we take it for granted - but early iterations of all technologies were hand-built, relying on the skills and intuition of master craftsmen for the effectiveness of each end product. It might surprise you to learn that in the field of facial reconstructive surgery, the vast majority of work is still being done in a pre-industrial revolution fashion - and results for patients who present with horribly disfiguring facial tumors or bone injuries are as varied and inconsistent as the human hands that do the work.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 02:01 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will design and develop the next-generation fighter jet Gripen for the Swedish aerospace major Saab, a senior official of the IT bellwether said.
Saab, whose strike fighter Gripen is in race for the Indian Air Force (IAF) order to induct 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) in its fleet, has set up an aeronautical design and development centre with TCS in Bangalore for the multi-million, multi-year contract.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 10:59 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
Teakle Composites is barely a year old and it’s already breaking the boundaries of modern mining, using MSC ’s AFEA software to develop cutting edge fibre composite components
At just over a year old innovator Teakle Composites is a newcomer to the fibre composite product development market, yet is already making its mark on the mining industry. The company today announced it is utilising advanced simulation and analysis software in the development of a new generation of mining components, designed to offer far greater durability and flexibility than steel counterparts. The range of fibre glass products is being developed virtually and tested thoroughly in MSC Software’s AFEA package, before being fabricated for physical testing.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 09:17 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
AN emerging trend in machine construction is the modularisation of machines and installations into mechatronic sub-systems to form a transparent overall system, with virtual mapping, simulation and control of production on PC workstations.
Standardised "intelligent" handling devices meet the current market demand for greater flexibility and shorter engineering times.
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 07:58 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Visteon Corp . design engineer Nick McGuire, who calls himself “a bit of a computer geek,” is ready to abandon instrument panels, center consoles and doors panels for cartoons and computer graphics.
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Monday 9 February, 2009 02:49 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Inside JJ Churchill's engineering factory , the scene is one of controlled commotion as hightechnology machine tools turn out parts for diesel generators and aero- engines. The company, based in Market Bosworth, a small town in the English Midlands, was set up in 1937 by Walter Churchill, a pilot-cum-engineer who during the second world war flew Spitfires and Hurricanes from a landing strip next to the plant. The family can trace a link to Winston Churchill.
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Monday 9 February, 2009 07:48 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Texas A&M University , along with eight other astronomical research organizations from three continents, has signed the Founders’ Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) at Las Campanas Observatory in the Andes Mountains of Chile.
“We are poised to enter the age of the greatest advances in astronomy – the discovery of Earth-like planets capable of life, as well as the understanding of the origin and evolution of our universe,” said Nicholas B. Suntzeff, director of Texas A&M’s astronomy program and holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy in the Texas A&M Department of Physics. “ When we map the universe to its beginning or find that Earth-like planet, I want Texas A&M astronomers and physicists to be there making these discoveries.”
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 10:53 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
In all the talk of economic stimulus in the White House and on Capitol Hill, one element has been conspicuously absent: defense programs. Yet including $20 billion to $25 billion per year of increased defense spending in the stimulus -- a tiny amount in a total package of hundreds of billions -- would be both smart politics and sound policy.
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 03:51 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Orson Welles said film-making was the biggest electric train set a boy ever had. He was wrong. A new high-speed train line would be, if the boy or girl grew up to engineer it.
But in Britain, the train set is broken and has been packed away in the attic. We're not proud of industry and we certainly don't want our kids to grow up to be engineers. It's a tragedy. It never used to be this way. We need to rediscover the power of engineering, its impact and contribution. It can stimulate young minds and it can stimulate the economy.
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 07:46 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
Testing has begun on one of Iter’s key components – The Divertor Test Platform Facility (DTP2).
The design and manufacture of the full-scale prototype, recently assembled in Tampere, Finland, has taken four years and has cost €7 million ($9 million), half of which was funded by the Euratom programme. It is the culmination of efforts from scientists all over Europe, working together with four industrial partners based in Finland, Luxemborg and Spain.
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Saturday 7 February, 2009 03:58 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
Two weeks ago I talked about the U.S. infrastructure spending that's soon going to hit the economy and how it will benefit a handful of companies.
Today, I'm going to talk about an even greater windfall for savvy investors. That is, investors who don't stick their heads in the sand.
I'm talking about China's massive infrastructure program : More than $600 billion that will be invested to boost the standard of living in China's rural areas.
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Saturday 7 February, 2009 02:54 PM |
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