CMU’s solar house a glimpse of the future
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- CMU’s solar house a glimpse of the future
- Expansion will make PA refinery nation’s largest.
- Machine translation for manufacturing: a case study at Ford Motor…
- Micro-organisms Genetically Engineered Into Tiny Factories
- Case study: the engineering economics of RFID in specialized manufactu…
- Taranis UAV moves into production.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article)
- NTPC Simhadri in expansion mode
CMU’s solar house a glimpse of the future
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Sep 22, 2007
He said he will encourage major construction companies that donated materials for the project to consider producing and marketing such houses. About 110 students with a core group of 24 Carnegie Mellon students participated in the two-year project. Ben Saks a fifth-year Carnegie Mellon architectural student from Shaker Heights hio is project manager with various committees specializing in engineering design art communications and fund raising. The core group voted on all major decisions promoting a team concept said Mr. The team held an open house Thursday at Construction Junction in Point Breeze that attracted a sizable crowd mostly students faculty and sponsors. The house drew rave reviews… In time solar power costs will be incorporated into real estate mortgages. The competition also encourages green technology. So Bob Bingham said his Carnegie Mellon art students incorporated plant sculptures into the architecture. Plants grow on sections of roof and in bogs around the house. A stepped structure overloaded with plants includes a tank to collect water from the rooftop for use in irrigation. A new product allows herbs to grow from a vertical layer attached to walls.
Expansion will make PA refinery nation’s largest.
Free with registration – Beaumont Enterprise – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
For the next three years the general manager of Motiva Enterprises LLC’s Port Arthur refinery will not only have to see that business goes on as usual but oversee a major construction project with a price tag in the range of $6 billion to $8 billion. And his number of employees will jump from about 1500 to between 6000 to 7000. “My job for the next three years is going to be a very tough job in terms of keeping the plant focused while at the same time trying to take what some perceive is two different plants and integrate them and run them. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Beaumont Enterprise.
Machine translation for manufacturing: a case study at Ford Motor…
Free with registration – AI Magazine – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
A process sheet contains the detailed instructions needed to build a portion of a vehicle. A single vehicle may require several thousand process sheets to describe its assembly. An engineer writes a process sheet describing a portion of the assembly work utilizing a restricted subset of English known as Standard Language. Standard Language allows an engineer to write clear and concise assembly instructions that are machine readable. The process sheets also contain embedded comments and associated remarks that need to be translated. In addition changes to the process build instructions are frequent and this necessitates the retranslation of those instructions. In a typical month we may need to translate more than 150000 records from English into our target languages of Spanish Portuguese Dutch and German.
Micro-organisms Genetically Engineered Into Tiny Factories
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Sep 22, 2007
coli into tiny cellular factories. Several patents related to this work have been filed by UB. The team also is in discussions with companies in the U… coli of P450 monooxygenases enzymes that are used widely in nature but are not readily expressed in most industrially important microorganisms. "P450 is very important in the synthesis of natural products" said Koffas. "For example both Taxol the breast cancer drug that is currently produced from plant cultures and artemisinin the anti-malaria drug have P450 enzymes in their biosynthetic pathways. " The Koffas lab has introduced ways to modify both the P450 monooxygenase enzymes and the host cell thereby improving their yield of flavonoids. Microbial biosynthesis methods also are making it easier to create analogs of existing drugs as well as new molecules for a broad range of therapeutics. The UB researchers are particularly interested in developing novel molecules that can be used to treat chronic diseases such as type II diabetes and obesity. They also are using the methods to produce specialty compounds such as natural pigments that could replace chemical dyes in food.
Case study: the engineering economics of RFID in specialized manufactu…
Free with registration – Engineering Economist – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
Consequently failed audits may result in a contract fine if an operator is found to be using a noncalibrated tool. In addition to the quality costs of an operator using a noncalibrated tool in production there are also the costs of losing calibrated tools. First there is the cost of the tool itself if the tool is never found. Second there is the cost of the lost labor time spent searching for the tool. And finally there is lost production time if the tool is needed immediately in production. We suggest that these latter costs could be alleviated by the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) which can provide real-time tracking of calibrated tools. RFID can be used in an asset management system such as those supported by enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Taranis UAV moves into production.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article)
Free with registration – Interavia Business & Technology – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article) –>CPYRIGHT 2007 Aerospace Media Publishing The BAE Systems-led Taranis unmanned air vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator programme is moving from the design phase into the detailed design and manufacturing phase. BAE Systems says it has moved closer to a planned year-end assembly start following the first metal cut on the airframe at the company’s Samlesbury. CPYRIGHT 2007 Aerospace Media Publishing.
NTPC Simhadri in expansion mode
Hindu – Sep 22, 2007
Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde launched the stage-II (500X2 mw) work costing Rs. 5038 crores on Sunday. The first unit will go on stream in 38 months.
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