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John Hayes, Founder of NoRiskAutomation, is a 2014 Supply and Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know. Hayes suggested that all companies considering the purchase of automation, particularly automated guided vehicles, follow a four step process.

As a sales manager for several automated guided vehicle (AGV) companies there was an intention: sell AGVs. Performance was measured by number of vehicles sold per month, per quarter, per year, year over year, and at a measured profitability. It took courage to say to the customer and to C-level AGV management, “Sorry this isn’t the right product for you.”

Earlier today, through a joint press release, Burns and Roe Group (BRG) announced that Burns and Roe Enterprises (BRE) and POWER Engineers have entered into an agreement to merge BRE engineering services business activities into POWER Engineers. To accomplish this merger, POWER will purchase the stock of BRE from Burns and Roe Group. (See joint POWER Engineers and Burns and Roe Enterprises press release at: http://www.roe.com/press-release/

Given that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is well known for its standards, still are still constantly seeking an expansion of standards on a higher standing, on a global level. But before interestingly foreseeing the paramount possibilities of ASME, there are these efforts behind genuine standards truly labored by ASME.

Although allegations haven’t been proven yet, GE Hitachi resorted to paying $2.7 million dollars on January 2014 as settlement for the lawsuit filed against them by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and US Department of Energy to resolve contentions under False Claims Act regarding the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) – GE’s newly-designed nuclear reactor. GE was under the suspicion that it made forge statements about the component of the said nuclear reactor known as the steam dryer.

Tank Engineering And Management Consultants, Inc. (TEAM Consultants), one of Florida’s most respected tank inspection companies, is proud to announce that after 30 years in business,  TEAM Consultants has opened a second office.  In October, a new office opened in Indianapolis, Indiana—the Crossroads of America—to help TEAM Consultants respond more quickly and more cost effectively to our Northern and Midwestern customers.  TEAM Consultants will now be able to handle all types of petroleum tank inspections and water tank inspections more effectively.

Clients looking to develop their homes with the addition of basement extensions are now frequently obtaining planning permission and deferring construction for several years. This has in part been motivated by moves on the part of planning authorities to restrict the amount of subterranean development they will allow.

Timothy M. Kelly, a noted telemetry engineering consultant to Fortune 500 firms and former sales executive for an international manufacturer of telemetry systems, has been named Engineering Manager of IMET Corporation, electronic product development and PCB assembly specialists.

AlvakaNet is an Advanced Network Administration that a lot more than monitoring. It's 24x7x365 upbeat network monitoring that's supplied by the best and skilled NOC engineers. AlvakaNet is all about creating one’s network hidden so that his/her IT-staff could be more strategic and dedicated on the bottom line. AlvakaNet significantly improves network accessibility and uptime.

SYNCFAB Hybrid 3D Print and Design Company founders Jeremy Goodwin and Dennis Delgado will be attending today's Tech Crunch LA Meetup event from 6-10PM PST. Both Jeremy, CEO, and Dennis, Design Director, will be in attendance and available for questions related to the company's current Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign ending April 30, 2014. Both Jeremy and Dennis can be reached either by email at: jeremy@syncfab.com and dennis@syncfab.com or by phone listed at the bottom of this press release.

E&S Grounding Solutions is pleased to announce the release of their new electrical grounding book by lead author and Manager of Engineering David Stockin. "McGraw-Hill's National Electrical Code 2014 Grounding and Earthing Handbook" is now available at major retailers and has already received rave reviews from industry experts and critics alike. The book is a comprehensive guide to electrical grounding and specifically Article 250 of the 2014 National Electrical Code (NEC). The book has extensive illustrations with step by step explanations of each and every article of the Code. Additional electrical grounding chapters covered in the book include the features and benefits of different types of grounding electrodes, measuring ground potential rise and the importance of soil resistivity testing as well as information on different types of lightning protection systems. The chapters are designed to give readers and those who work in the electrical industry a solid knowledge of National Electrical Code (NEC) issues and the proper methods for grounding and earthing to ensure the safety of humans and property.

Quest Tec Solutions, a Houston-based company specializing in the manufacture, development, and engineering of liquid level gauge and valve product lines, introduces the LEVEL-ARC Service Center Program that provides business owners an edge to show their customers that the company is committed to delivering quality technical service.

Canada Business News reports the demand for civil engineers in the Alberta area is increasing by an average of 25 percent annually. While the number of students pursuing a career in this field is at an all time high, the province currently lacks enough established professionals to meet their growing needs. In an effort to bridge this gap, Trent Thompson of Bolson Engineering and Environmental Services has announced the company has expanded their services into Edmonton and the surrounding communities.

A new, advanced medical imaging system by Bodkin Design and Engineering enables researchers to pinpoint data and analyze complex microscopic samples in real time. The VNIR-90 Hyperspectral Imager captures spectral images within fixed tissue or in-vivo biological samples, in a single video frame, for immediate identification and analysis.

With a $10,000 goal, Grabo has launched GestureR, an Arduino-compatible gesture sensing module, as a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter.

Megan Lunn, a third year mechanical engineering apprentice at Reliance Precision, has been awarded The Severn Unival Most Outstanding Achievement Award by Kirklees College, in recognition of exceptional performance.

Allied Steel Buildings, a Fort Lauderdale-based company specializing in prefabricated Steel Buildings, reported significant growth throughout 2013 and thus far into 2014.

The Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) concept came from the idea that from design to production, a part can be fully simulated and the optimal production process selected. The production process can be fully automated; the human interaction is done in the initial design and production constraints and parameters. The systems then take the raw material from the initial state to the end state. Dr. Heinz Derenbach, the Executive Vice President Technical and Engineering in the Corporate Sector for Information Systems and Services of Bosch GmbH said, “In an extreme vision, this unfinished material already knows for which customer it is intended and carries with it all the information about where and when it will be processed. Once the material is in the machine, the material itself records any deviations from the standard process, determines when it’s ‘done,’ and knows how to get to its customer.” The decentralization of computer systems is also important. Each system has to have adequate intelligence and autonomy to carry out its tasks with as little information as possible from the central systems, or the complexity of the system becomes impossible to scale. This requires new ways of designing controls and integrating devices as well as new manufacturing processes. The benefits of distributed autonomous systems will be local manufacturing that can reduce supply chain length and increase customization by having on-demand manufacturing done closer to the customer. This will reduce the shipping costs of the final product and increase the availability of products to more markets. From an economic perspective this will create more manufacturing jobs since there will be a greater number of shops making more products. According to Rick Moran, COO of System Insights, “To achieve a full CPS implementation, the first step is to understand our current manufacturing processes and how the machinists and operators are making parts and running the equipment. This first step is called tribal knowledge capture. We must learn from the people and the machines how to configure, setup, and adjust the processes to make every part perfect and make the processes repeatable.” About System Insights System Insights, (www.systeminsights.com) based in Berkeley, California, with offices in Chennai, India, is a leading global supplier of manufacturing software in both machining based, discrete and process industries. The SI flagship product - vimana - delivers predictive analytics solutions to improve clients’ efficiency, productivity, and profitability. vimana provides these data while enabling customers to realize sustainable manufacturing objectives. The vimana software platform delivers a unique combination of Cloud Computing and Big Data capabilities that sets out to revolutionize the economics of manufacturing. System Insights is a proud member of both AMT (Association for Manufacturing Technology) and NTMA (National Tooling and Machining Association). Follow System Insights on Twitter @systeminsights.

P&A International, a company that provides a wide variety of machine shop services, has just announced that they will be part of the LogiMAT 12th International Trade Fair for Distribution, which will be held Feb. 25 to 27 at Stuttgart Airport. This will be the company’s third appearance at the trade exhibition, which will focus on innovative products, solutions and systems for procurement, distribution logistics, warehousing and production.

For decades, the state of the art in engineering required drawings to be sent to a machine shop to check the efficacy of a design by manufacturing a prototype. Costing thousands – to, in some cases, millions – of dollars, and taking weeks or months for delivery, the process has been notoriously inefficient. If a prototype doesn’t function correctly, it is literally and figuratively sent “back to the drawing board”.

San Francisco has become known as the tech mecca, and Silicon Valley is now home to many of the world’s biggest technology companies and service providers, from Apple to Google and Facebook. The constant expansion of the region’s technology elite is driving demand for construction of new headquarters, storage facilities, server rooms and more. VIATechnik is an engineering services and consultancy group that has seen huge success from its hubs in Chicago and Manila, and has now expanded to take up a new home in San Francisco to help define the next era in the digital gold rush.

Rockhill Partners, a company that specializes in investing in early-stage companies in the science and technology industries, has just announced that they have retained Private Equity Headhunters LLC for its executive recruiting needs for its new portfolio companies.

Interior design can be a challenge at the best of times- it takes dedication, intuition and technical savvy to be able to design a space that flows, suits the needs of its users and feels like a welcoming environment. For businesses, this is even more difficult, as the need for partitions creates even more pressure to keep them from becoming a maze of cubicles. IMT Modular Partitions provide flexible, reusable and customizable partitions that can be adapted to fit the needs of the business at that time, and can be moved and redesigned in order to flexibly accommodate how the company evolves.

What will Sherman & Reilly, Honeywell Lighting Solutions, Solar Electric Power Co., Russelectric, Milbank, and 48 other companies have in common Oct. 13-15?

Strategic Maintenance Solutions (SMS) and IBM’s recently acquired TRIRIGA, joined forces earlier this year bolstering SMS with a new offering for their clients. IBM TRIRIGA, an integrated workplace management system (IWMS), provides strategic facilities planning, implementation, and management while integrating these processes with other utilized enterprise systems.