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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Some experts are proposing radical ideas to save us
from disastrous climate change. But would they work? Professors John
Latham and Stephen Salter have designed a fleet of yachts that would
pump fine particles of sea-water into clouds, thickening them to
reflect more of the Sun's rays. Here, Professor Latham talks about the
proposal.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 02:26 PM |
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Quality is a never ending quest and Continuous Process Improvement
(CPI) is a never ending effort to discover and eliminate the main
causes of problems. It accomplishes this by using small-steps
improvements, rather than implementing one huge improvement. The
Japanese have a term for this called "kaizen" which involves everyone,
from the hourly workers to top-management.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 02:12 PM |
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Employee motivation, positive employee morale, rewards and recognition
are explored in these resources. What creates motivated, contributing
people? How do you maintain high employee morale when people work long
hours? How does your reward and recognition system contribute to or
deflate employee motivation, positive morale and retention? Answers are
here.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 02:02 PM |
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The future of coal-fired
power plants is seen so tied up by legal challenges from green
groups, that it could slow, or even thwart, plans to use
America's abundant coal supplies to generate its growing
electricity needs. The recent decision by Texas utility TXU Corp. (TXU.N: Quote, Profile , Research) to
scrap eight of 11 planned coal-fired plants to gain
environmental support for its leveraged buyout, has thrown the
growth prospects of the coal-mining industry into doubt.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 01:51 PM |
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Singapore Power Ltd. plans to join
Babcock & Brown Ltd. in a A$9 billion ($7 billion) bid for Alinta
Ltd., Australia's biggest energy transmission company, said three
people familiar with the transaction.
Singapore Power and Sydney-based Babcock may submit their
offer for Perth-based Alinta on March 12, said the people, asking
not to be identified before an official announcement. Banks were
invited to lend state-run Singapore Power's half of the bid
amount, they said. Babcock will get loans for its portion in
Australia. Alinta shares jumped 4.5 percent.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 01:48 PM |
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Oil prices dropped Monday amid continued declines in Asian markets and concerns about the world's economic outlook.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 01:41 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, "What if
instead of ME going to get the BEER, the BEER came to ME???" Well, that was how I first conceived of the beer launching
fridge.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 01:27 PM |
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Sunday 4 March, 2007 04:18 PM |
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The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst
weekly performance in more than four years as stocks stumbled in the
final session Friday.
The Dow, as it had the day before, poked
tentatively into positive territory before retreating as the yen
furthered its gains and investors failed to shake their unease.
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Sunday 4 March, 2007 04:03 PM |
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The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's
fabulous game tells how he got into micromachining and where
he's taking it next
........... he wants to make the sensor even smaller, even
cheaper, even tougher. “I want it to fit in all kinds of
places—shoes and textiles, for instance, where it might
be useful for medical monitoring,” he says.
“Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope,
to measure rotation around three different axes. Today,
such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a
side. We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter
cube, to serve as an image stabilizer in cameras and to
track a person’s position in the intervals when he can’t
get a GPS signal.”
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Sunday 4 March, 2007 03:49 PM |
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Motivational Pages
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 03:49 PM |
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Warehousing & Distribution
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Software selection and
implementation services have become big business for consulting firms as
well as the software vendors themselves. Even with outside assistance,
selecting the right software for your operation and having a successful
implementation can be an extremely difficult undertaking. Horror stories of
failed ERP system implementations are unfortunately very common. Anyone
that frequently reads business publications has likely read stories where
large corporations, posting smaller than forecasted profits (or losses),
cite problems associated with the implementation of a new software system as
one of the causes. Whether these claims are legitimate or not is up to
debate. What is true, is businesses are highly dependent on information
systems, and failures in the selection and implementations of systems can
result in anything from a minor nuisance to a complete operational shutdown
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 03:09 PM |
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Warehousing & Distribution
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Every warehouse and distribution center is different but, for all, the
key to success is effectively using resources to deliver required
services. Benchmark your facility's performance with a new online
self-assessment tool developed at Georgia Tech with the cooperation of
MHIA's Logistics Execution Systems Association (LESA) and Order
Fulfillment Council
(OFC).
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 03:04 PM |
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While oil shale is found in many places worldwide, by far the largest
deposits in the world are found in the United States in the Green River Formation,
which covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Estimates of the
oil resource in place within the Green River Formation range from 1.2
to 1.8 trillion barrels. Not all resources in place are recoverable;
however, even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels
of recoverable oil from oil shale in the Green River Formation is three
times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:34 PM |
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There are four oil
fields in the world which produce over one million barrels per day.
Ghawar, which produces 4.5 million barrels per day, Cantarell in Mexico,
which produces nearly 2 million barrels per day, Burgan in Kuwait which produces
1.7 million barrels per day and Da Qing in China which produces 1 million barrels
per day. Ghawar is, therefore, extremely important to the world's economy
and well being. Today the world produces 82.5 million barrels per day
which means that Ghawar produces 5.5 percent of the world's daily production.
Should it decline, there would be major problems. As Ghawar goes, so goes
Saudi Arabia.
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:22 PM |
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Toyota Motor
extended its political and manufacturing muscle in the United States
with the announcement yesterday of a $1.3 billion assembly plant in
Mississippi.
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:17 PM |
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GKN shares hit five-year high on bullish outlookShares in GKN, the car components to aerospace group, surged to a
five-year high yesterday after the group delivered a bullish outlook
for its main markets and said it was accelerating the transfer of
production to low-cost factories in India and China.
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:11 PM |
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Confidence in Europe's largest economy eased this month, with manufacturers a bit less optimistic about the next six months.
Germany's closely watched Ifo Business Climate index eased to 107 in February, from 107.9 last month.
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Sunday 25 February, 2007 01:26 PM |
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Pro/Engineer has always been noted for capability rather than ease of use and even the company's Product Management VP, Michael Campbell said at the launch that - "Pro/Engineer is never going to be the easiest CAD system to use , out there"
Perhaps for this reason, knowing that once users get used to a particular CAD system, they tend to stick with it, the company is bringing out a Free Schools Edition with a US launch in March 2006 and a Global roll out starting September 2006
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Sunday 25 February, 2007 11:18 AM |
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The tallest building in the world is currently being built in Dubai. A unique combination of engineering and style is happening in the tiny desert stae of Dubai. Tiny in size, a giant in vision
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Monday 19 February, 2007 02:08 PM |
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A novel approach to packaging fast food. From the article : " When Annie and Jesse Hill shared a quick lunch of chicken and noodles at Sino Wok in Raleigh, N.C., they noticed the food, not the plates. But the plates were almost edible, too. Made of bamboo fiber and sugar cane pulp, they're totally biodegradable - unlike most fast food containers."
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Sunday 18 February, 2007 02:39 PM |
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