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Beer Launching Fridge

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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.
Monday 5 March, 2007 12:27 PM
 

New Emissions Curbs

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New Emissions Curbs For Diesel Trains, Ships

Sunday 4 March, 2007 03:18 PM
 

Dow Jones Tumbles

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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.

Sunday 4 March, 2007 03:03 PM
 

Wii Future Technology

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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.”

Sunday 4 March, 2007 02:49 PM
 

Motivation

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Motivational Pages
Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:49 PM
 

Software Selection and Implementation Tips

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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
Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:09 PM
 

Benchmark Your Distribution Center or Warehouse Online

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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
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Wednesday 28 February, 2007 02:04 PM
 

Oil Shale Reserves

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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
Wednesday 28 February, 2007 01:34 PM
 

Trouble in the worlds largest oil field

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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.  
Wednesday 28 February, 2007 01:22 PM
 

Toyota $1.3bn assy plant

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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.
Wednesday 28 February, 2007 01:17 PM
 

GKN shares rise

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GKN shares hit five-year high on bullish outlook

Shares 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.

Wednesday 28 February, 2007 01:11 PM
 

Manufacturing Confidence In Germany Slips In February

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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.

Sunday 25 February, 2007 12:26 PM
 

CAD

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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
Sunday 25 February, 2007 10:18 AM
 

Burj Dubai - Worlds tallest building

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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

Monday 19 February, 2007 01:08 PM
 

Biodegradable fast food packaging

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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." 

Sunday 18 February, 2007 01:39 PM
 

Toyota's environmental image challenged

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 Then again, there is always someone out there trying to get some publicity by attacking the big guys - Always easy to criticize

Never mind that the Toyota Prius is popular with environmentally conscious motorists -- some environmentalists still wonder if Toyota is living up to its image as a green automaker

 

 

Wind Turbines - Do you need one at home?

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 Some people tend to generate more wind than others - this could be an advantage

They're springing up on rooftops across the country and are becoming the standard bearer of those determined to generate their own electricity. But do wind-turbines - on sale in DIY stories for as little as £1,500 and with claims that they can save 30% on electricity bills - actually work?

 

 

Mitsubishi picks Pratt & Whitney engines for regional jet

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Spread your wings and fly - a partnership made in heaven ? don't know,  but it must be close to that location

TOKYO — Japanese machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industires (MHVYF) is using a Pratt & Whitney engine for its planned small jet, the companies said Tuesday, in what will be the first "made in Japan" passenger aircraft in three decades
 
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