Industrial and Engineering Software Reference Materials
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EtherNet/IP™ Programming #33: Programming with RSLogix 5000
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: EtherNet/IP™ (Ethernet Industrial Protocol) is a communications protocol developed by Rockwell Automation, and is currently managed by the Open DeviceNet Vendors Association (ODVA). It is ...
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Laser Raster-Scanning Patterns on Cylindrical Workpieces Using CADFusion and PSO Bitmap Tools
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: A large number of cylindrical laser processing applications program the laser writing campaign as if the two axes (one linear and one rotary) are both, in fact, linear in nature. In other words, the ...
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Synchronizing Position Synchronized Output (PSO) with Mode-Locked Lasers
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: Many lasers are limited to firing pulses based on an internal clock source and cannot be asynchronously triggered from an external signal such as from Aerotech's Position Synchronized Output (PSO) ...
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Tailored Automation Solutions for Performance-Driven Machinery
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: Today's machine builders confront a new era of risks, as globalization increases competition and the Internet rapidly disseminates information about products and markets. The highest priority for ...
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Using the Galvo Calibration File Converter with the Nmark CLS
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: Calibrating the field of view for scanners is typically an iterative process where a series of marks are placed on a substrate and the location of these marks is used to create a calibration file, and ...
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Using the Galvo Calibration File Converter with the Nmark SSaM
From: Aerotech, Inc.Description: Calibrating the field of view for scanners is typically an iterative process where a series of marks are placed on a substrate and the location of these marks is used to create a calibration file, and ...
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Wireless InSite Simulation of MIMO Antennas for 5G Telecommunications
From: Remcom (USA)Description: To keep up with rising demand and new technologies, the wireless industry is researching a wide array of solutions for 5G, including Massive MIMO. Remcom's Wireless InSite provides an efficient method ...
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Model-Driven Innovation
From: MaplesoftDescription: Many engineering organizations today are facing major challenges when designing and delivering new products. Time to market and cost control are critical in an increasingly competitive and global ...
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Model-Driven Innovation in Machine Design
From: MaplesoftDescription: The Model-Driven Innovation approach, and its emphasis on employing virtual prototyping at the system-level, is an invaluable technique when designing complex, dynamic machines. By employing this ...
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Full Wave Matching Circuit Optimization Shortens Design Iterations
From: Remcom (USA)Description: Full wave matching circuit optimization (FW-MCO) is a new technology that combines full wave, 3D EM simulation with circuit optimization into a novel approach for solving an age-old RF problem: ...
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DeviceLogix Technology for Industrial Applications
Description: There is an emerging need for highly flexible and adaptable 'smart' devices in control system architectures-devices that can execute simple control functions by making decisions independent of a ...
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FDTD Simulation: Optimizing an LTE Antenna's Matching Network
From: Remcom (USA)Description: A simple antenna for LTE band operation is added to the PC board of a smartphone in XFdtd and the matching circuit is tuned for operation in multiple frequency bands. The component values in the ...
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Modeling an Ad Hoc Network with Transceivers in an Urban Setting
From: Remcom (USA)Description: Ad hoc peer-to-peer networks can provide reliable communications in emergency situations where fixed infrastructures, like base stations, may not be available. This example demonstrates Wireless ...
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Adding a custom model to the NLDFT library - a CO2 GCMC model for carbons
From: MicromeriticsDescription: New models for determining the pore volume and pore size distribution of porous solids may be easily added to MicroActive. These kernels developed using NLDFT, GCMC and other variants have been ...
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Full Wave Simulation: Matching Network Design for GPS / Bluetooth Antenna
From: Remcom (USA)Description: XFdtd's Circuit Element Optimizer is used to determine optimal matching component values for a dual purpose antenna. ...
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Predictive emission monitoring systems (PEMS) deploying software-based emission monitoring systems for refining processes
Description: In the process industries, legal requirements regulate the continuous acquisition of emission data to monitor and control pollutants released into the atmosphere. Data verifies that plant emissions do ...
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Overview of XFdtd's Circuit Element Optimizer
From: Remcom (USA)Description: XF's Circuit Element Optimizer utilizes full wave analysis to select the component values for a given printed circuit board (PCB) layout. The tool allows design engineers to optimize matching circuit ...
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5 Ways Software KVM Switches Are Better Than Hardware Switches
From: EdgeRunnerDescription: Virtualization continues to emerge as an effective technology driving cost reductions and bringing new benefits; here are the top five (5) reasons to leave hardware behind and charge forward with ...
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Cableless KVM Switches are Here
From: EdgeRunnerDescription: Beyond eliminating hardware, software KVM switches easily enable configurations that are difficult to manage with hardware switches and create a degree of integration between multiple PCs to the point ...
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Virtual KVM is a disruptive innovation, ready for mainstream adoption
From: EdgeRunnerDescription: Leading IT organizations are adopting software KVM, the technology alternative that dramatically lowers costs and enhances multi-PC station capabilities. Expect more companies to follow. ...
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Benefits of Time-Domain Electromagnetic Simulation for Automotive Radar
From: Remcom (USA)Description: This whitepaper demonstrates how XFdtd's time-domain EM simulation enables rapid development by allowing engineers to determine the performance of a fully detailed sensor model installed behind a ...
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Antenna Performance Simulation of a Probe for Thermal Ablation
From: Remcom (USA)Description: An antenna design for hepatic microwave ablation is simulated in a dielectric emulating liver tissue to determine antenna performance, SAR distribution, and thermal response. ...
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Do parts have revisions? What the "form fit function" rule tells us
From: Active Sensing, Inc.Description: Product data management software easily lets you identify your parts and the documents that define them. As designs evolve, the original documents get revised, and new parts are created from these ...
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PLM Ensures Compliance With Regulatory Requirements
From: Active Sensing, Inc.Description: Medical device manufacturers must comply with governmental agency standards, such as Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 21 CFR Part 820, and commercial standards for medical devices, such as ISO 13485 ...
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What is the Value of Real-Time Data: How much does it cost you to wait hours for updated information?
From: IQMSDescription: Read the whitepaper "What is the Value of Real-Time Data: How much does it cost you to wait hours for updated information?" to understand the importance of working with real-time data in a ...
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Customized Innovation: Finding the Tools to Automate
From: IQMSDescription: Customized innovations on the shop floor are the way of the future for many companies seeking greater operational efficiency and to boost market differentiation in today's competitive marketplace. The ...
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Why ERP Systems Fail to Perform
From: IQMSDescription: Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet to explain why ERP systems fail to meet expectations. It is typically a series of minor problems that lead to a downfall. The whitepaper, Why ERP Systems Fail ...
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Equator™ programmable gauges help create the ultimate automation cell for bearing machining and parts sorting
From: RenishawDescription: Conroe Machine is doing what most machine shops only dream of - hard turning a family of parts around the clock in an unmanned cell that operates a 'self controlled' process. It integrates a FANUC ...
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Electronics Industry Case Study: Ultra-Compact Imagers Ensure Quality of Laser Marked Symbols on Electronic Components
Description: IPTE is a worldwide supplier of automated production equipment for the manufacturing industry. The IPTE Factory Automation division develops standard machinery and turnkey automation systems for the ...
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Instrument Control Fundamentals: Instrument Control Software
From: NIDescription: You can write today's instrument control applications using a number of different programming languages and technologies. Some of these technologies include NI LabVIEW, NI LabWindows™/CVI, NI ...
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What is Instrument Control?
From: NIDescription: Instrument control is a PC-based approach that combines programmable software and hardware connectivity for automating measurement acquisition from third-party instrumentation. An instrument control ...
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Application Simulation: Adding Intelligence to Automation
From: StruCIM®Description: Add intelligence to your automation and open up new possibilities for your system by bringing together targeted applications-orientated simulation and off-line programming. ac&e's partnering service ...
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WP #107: How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by ...
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From Four to One: Custom Profile's Success with Comprehensive ERP Software from IQMS
From: IQMSDescription: Return on Investment: ?? Saved time and prevented errors with simple connections in all steps of the process, from packing slips to invoicing ?? Improved inventory control and tracking with ...
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Real-Time Shop Floor and ERP Integration, Simplified
From: IQMSDescription: Your shop floor operates in real time. It moves fast and so must you. Beyond the collection and integration of shop floor data, the real challenge is to make that data actionable - in an instant - to ...
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The Essential Guide to ERP for Assembly Manufacturers
From: IQMSDescription: Assembly manufacturing processes can be complex and varied. As a result assemblers fall victim to the myths that ERP systems could only benefit discrete manufacturers, were only for large ...
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Using a dataTaker DT80 to Control a Hydraulic Valve
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: A CAS Data Loggers customer who had recently purchased a dataTaker DT80 data logger called in to our tech support asking how to set it up to not only control a hydraulic valve used in materials ...
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Chevron North America Exploration & Production using ThinManager to power production
Description: Since 1879, Chevron has been on the cutting edge of exploration and innovation. Over the years they have grown and changed with the times and have always continued to evolve along with the needs of ...
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http://blogs.thinmanager.com/thinclients/?cat=73
Description: ThinManager Mobile for iOS is an iPhone or iPad app that can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store. It allows you to connect to your ThinManager and manage it from your iPhone or iPad. You ...
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Real Security Is About Prevention Not Recovery
Description: Over the last few months, we have been hearing more and more about the Stuxnet Worm. Originating in 2007, it became a topic of conversation in the main stream media after its global deployment in ...
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Upgrading a Glass Coating Plant
Description: Several years ago, a glass manufacturer was building a new glass coating facility. They wanted to use all the latest technology, especially for the control and monitoring system. It was decided that ...
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Manufacturer Manages 20 Percent Annual Growth, Improves Inventory Accuracy More Than Threefold and Cuts Report Processing Time From Hours to Minutes
From: Plex Systems, Inc.Description: Overall, accuracy and production processes have improved across the company. With the previous system the inventory count was off by an average of seven percent. With better tracking and inventory ...
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Cloud Computing - Another Buzzword or
From: SymphonyAI IndustrialDescription: Cloud Computing is opening up many possibilities in the world of Predictive Maintenance (PdM). The benefits are quickly realized by companies who choose to leverage this technology. Cloud computing is ...
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COMPARISON OF IDEAL STAGE AND MASS TRANSFER MODELS FOR SEPARATION PROCESSES WITH AND WITHOUT CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Description: The design and optimization of separation processes is carried out using process simulators which utilize various calculation approaches. Two techniques which are widely used for modeling distillation ...
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Breaking Down File Transfer Challenges with Managed File Transfer
From: OpenTextDescription: Engineering files are getting bigger and the sharing of information is getting more complex. Organizations today are transferring information not only between local employees but global departments, ...
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Great Connections for Better Design
From: OpenTextDescription: Good enough can be great with the right tool to bring the world of design together. Exceed onDemand provides the capabilities needed by SOC design teams worldwide and has been adopted by leading ...
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OpenText Managed File Transfer Technical Overview
From: OpenTextDescription: The Email integrated Manage File Transfer Solution from OpenText is a comprehensive file exchange medium that provides an extensive and well balanced solution to file transfer problems. Not bound by ...
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A COMPARISON OF PHYSICAL SOLVENTS FOR ACID GAS REMOVAL
Description: Physical solvents such as DEPG (Selexol™ or Coastal AGR®), NMP or N-Methyl-2- Pyrrolidone (Purisol®), Methanol (Rectisol®), and Propylene Carbonate (Fluor Solvent™) are ...
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AN ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF HYDROCARBON DEW POINTS AND LIQUIDS IN GAS TRANSMISSION LINES
Description: The occurrence of liquid hydrocarbons in natural gas transmission lines has increased in recent years as a result of the shrinking price spread between natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL's). ...
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An Analysis of Hydrate Conditions and Property Predictions in Acid Gas Injection Systems
Description: This paper will focus on the hydrate formation conditions for acid gas mixtures commonly found in acid gas injection systems. Many studies have analyzed the hydrate and solid formation temperatures of ...
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An Evaluation of General
Description: Many "rules of thumb" are widely used in the design and operation of amine sweetening units. These rules have been developed over the years and most engineers accept them even though many have little ...
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Composition Variety Complicates Processing Plans for US Shale Gas
Description: Recently higher gas prices and improved drilling technology have spurred shale gas drilling across the US. Some of the more popular areas are the Barnett, Haynesville, and Fayetteville shales in the ...
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Hydrate Inhibition with Methanol - A Review and New Concerns over Experimental Data Presentation
Description: Hydrate inhibition with methanol continues to play a critical role in many operations. Opportunities exist at many facilities for optimizing the amount of methanol required based on the operating ...
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HYDROCARBONS AND BTEX PICKUP AND CONTROL FROM AMINE SYSTEMS
Description: HC and BTEX absorption into amine solutions has received increased attention over the last decade due to emissions to the atmosphere or to problems in downstream equipment. The collection of VLE and ...
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF CO2 CAPTURE, DEHYDRATION, AND COMPRESSION FACILITIES
Description: On an industrial scale process, a comprehensive engineering design and optimization study was conducted for CO2 capture, dehydration, and compression facilities based on flue gases from natural gas ...
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Investigate Your Options
Description: This paper will investigate how computer aided simulation tools may be used to evaluate the existing acid gas handling systems as well as potential modifications in these units. In particular, the ...
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OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL GAS GATHERING SYSTEMS AND GAS PLANTS
Description: Due to the increase in natural gas prices in the past few years, the benefits of optimizing natural gas gathering and processing systems have become substantially greater. These benefits can be ...
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OPTIMIZING METHANOL USAGE FOR HYDRATE INHIBITION IN A GAS GATHERING SYSTEM
Description: Hydrate inhibition with methanol continues to play a critical role in many operations. Numerous opportunities exist for optimizing methanol usage based on the operating conditions, seasonal variations ...
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PRACTICAL HYDROCARBON DEW POINT SPECIFICATION
Description: Hydrocarbon liquid dropout can cause a number of problems in gas transmission lines, including increased pressure drop, reduced line capacity, and equipment problems such as compressor damage. To ...
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PROPER INTERPRETATION OF FREEZING AND HYDRATE PREDICTION
Description: This paper focuses on the modeling of solid phase behavior in systems that are frequently encountered in natural gas processing. The ability to perform accurate calculation of freezing or solids ...
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STEADY-STATE SIMULATORS ARE DEVELOPING A DYNAMIC PERSONALITY
Description: Process simulators have been used for years to design and model actual operation of all types of different plant processes. The majority of process simulators provide a "steady-state" picture of plant ...
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SYNOPSIS OF SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES USED IN TODAY'S ENGINEERING SOFTWARE
Description: Most engineers have little familiarity with the software technologies that provide the framework for the variety of applications they employ, from word processors to process simulators. While adequate ...
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THE IMPACT OF ACID GAS LOADING ON THE HEAT OF ABSORPTION
Description: In amine sweetening units, the heat of absorption and VOC and BTEX solubility have been found to vary significantly with acid gas loading as well as with temperature, amine type, and amine ...
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USING PROCESS SIMULATORS WILL MAKE YOUR PLANT MORE PRODUCTIVE AND EFFICIENT
Description: The use of process simulators to model plant operations can provide a plant hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in increased production and lower energy costs. This paper looks at several ...
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Waterfall Analysis: Frequency Spectrum or Order Spectrum?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This article addresses two basic approaches to analyzing rotating machinery during transient (sweeping rpm) conditions. The first is the traditional method which uses Frequency (FFT) Spectrum analysis ...
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Implementation Tips from the Trenches
From: IQMSDescription: Lessons learned and battle experience earned from IQMS specialists who triumph every day on the implementation front lines. ...
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Wide Band Integrators - What Are They?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: It has been conventional wisdom that a higher order integrator is 'better'. Now, a rectangular integrator is a zero order integrator and a trapezium integrator is a first order integrator. So ...
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NOVATEL KEEPS AN EYE ON QUALITY WITH SEQUENCE WORK INSTRUCTIONS
From: Sequence SoftwareDescription: NovAtel Inc. is the world's leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier of precision GNSS products, including receivers, antennas, enclosures and firmware. These products are recognized for ...
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16X Speedup in ANSYS Maxwell DSO on 32-Core High-Performance Compute Farm Doubles Traction Motor Design Productivity at General Motors
Description: Optimizing the design of traction motors used to drive electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is challenging because automakers have little experience in this area. ...
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Advanced Numerical Simulation for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Description: WWith concerns over air pollution and petroleum supplies, the use of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) have come to the forefront as alternatives to conventional gasoline and ...
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Battery Thermal Management in Electric Vehicles
Description: Advanced numerical simulation helps accelerate the development of safe, long-lasting and cost-effective batteries for electric vehicles. In the wake of growing concerns over petroleum supplies and air ...
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Breakthrough in Brake Squeal Prediction Helps to Eliminate Noise Problems Early in Design Process
Description: Engineers have succeeded in recent years in reducing many types of automobile noise. However, friction-induced squeal in automotive brakes is an increasing source of customer complaints. Currently, ...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Hybrid/Electric Vehicle Traction Motor Design
Description: Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) have been rapidly gaining traction in the global automobile market by providing high fuel efficiency and near-zero emissions at increasingly ...
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Scaling New Heights in Aerodynamics Optimization: The 50:50:50 Method
Description: Aerodynamics development is all about trade-offs, striking the right balance between styling needs and aerodynamic concerns. Nearly all major automotive and truck manufacturers use computational fluid ...
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"5 steps to ERP Master Data Rationalization"
From: ZynapseDescription: Enterprise software applications have become so indispensable that they have a material effect on company valuations. Over the years, we have seen companies incur charges totalling hundreds of ...
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10 Epic fails in MRO Master Management Data
From: ZynapseDescription: Most business enterprises typically put their energy, resources and investment into things like product design, sales and marketing, production efficiency, tight process control, information ...
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Accounts Payable SIMplified with Supplier Information Management
From: ZynapseDescription: In today's global business environment, supplier information management is vital to the finance champions for a wide variety of reasons. Gartner' research estimates that companies typically spend ...
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CMMS System Optimization with Clean and Accurate MRO Data
From: ZynapseDescription: Most business enterprises typically put their energy, resources and investment into things like product design, sales and marketing, production efficiency, tight process control, information ...
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Discovering Master Data Management in the ERP Blueprint
From: ZynapseDescription: Global economy has undergone a significant transformation over the past several years. Markets have seen tremendous growth across all the verticals. The increase in the competition and the quest for ...
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HANDLING KEY MASTER DATA OBJECTS DURING AN ERP DATA MIGRATION
From: ZynapseDescription: The focus of an ERP solution is to provide clear visibility into business, both past and present to help the enterprise make the right business decisions. However, in most cases, even with systems ...
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Killing Supply Chain Inefficiency with Greater Material Master Data Visibility
From: ZynapseDescription: The material master database contains descriptions of all materials that an enterprise procures, produces, and keeps in stock. It is the central repository of information on materials/items (such as ...
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Master Data Management: Adding value to MRO and strategic sourcing initiatives
From: ZynapseDescription: Organizations around the world face many types of challenges today. The current tumultuous economic scenario, coupled with an ever-intensifying competition in the global market, has placed them under ...
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Optimizing Global Trade & Compliance Management with actionable information
From: ZynapseDescription: In a world gone flat, organizations around the world face continuous changes and increased regulations which are focused on protecting national security and appropriate corporate governance. These ...
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Vendor Information Management for the Banking and Financial Services Sector
From: ZynapseDescription: In recent times, increased outsourcing and heightened regulatory concern has generated a need for financial institutions to carefully manage and evaluate their relationships with vendors of all shapes ...
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Waterfall Analysis: Frequency Resolution and Smearing
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: When measuring noise and vibration in rotating machines, especially complex devices like automobile engines, it is very important to fully understand what is being measured and what analyses need to ...
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Become an ERP Sleuth
From: IQMSDescription: Do Your Due Diligence When Selecting a New ERP Vendor ...
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Bruno Independent Liiving Aids Improves Work Processes With FFD'S LockStep & Sequence Software
From: Sequence SoftwareDescription: Bruno Independent Living Aids is a leading global manufacturer of personal mobility device transportation equipment. Since 1984, the company has become the industry standard for unwavering quality ...
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Case Study: Industrial Cyber Security Designs a Network Architecture for Noranda Income Fund
Description: Noranda Income Fund (NIF), a privately held zinc refinery, wanted advice about how to achieve a secure process network as well as the equipment that would be required to build this new network. ...
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Why is the microphone pressure reference 2*10**(-5) Pascals?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This seemingly simple question is actually quite fundamental. To answer the question we need to consider sound intensity. Now sound intensity is defined as "the average rate of flow of energy through ...
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White Paper- Successfully Executing a System Integration Project
From: Beamex Oy AbDescription: For process manufacturers today, having a reliable, seamlessly integrated set of IT systems across the plant, or across multiple sites, is critical to business efficiency, profitability and growth. ...
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Negative Frequencies - What Are They?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Normally when we are analysing a signal it is a purely real signal, that is it has no imaginary part. A classic example is of course a sine wave. When we analyse a signal with a Fourier transform, ...
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Why Price Shouldn't Be the Final Factor When Investing in Manufacturing ERP Software
From: IQMSDescription: In today's world of business, the word free doesn't really mean free. It's a tempting word - free - but it raises hairs on the backs of people's necks. Nothing is ever free. You know the company with ...
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High speed troubleshooting for process monitoring
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: Industrial equipment represents one of the largest, and most important investments most production companies will ever make. Not only is the equipment itself a sensitive and complicated infrastructure ...
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Real-time Video Merge and Streaming
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: The nature of certain industrial operations does not lend itself well to wide-scale demonstrative training efforts, whether due to security constraints, the physical realities of the facility itself ...
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PIC32 Bootloader
Description: The bootloader for PIC32 devices is used to upgrade firmware on a target device without the need for aprogrammer or debugger. The bootloader consists of the following applications: *The bootloader ...
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A Collaborative Approach to Solving Engineering Problems with CFD
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: Ongoing advances in software and hardware, combined with the rapid growth of highperformance computing, have created exciting opportunities to take engineering simulation to new levels of scale, speed ...
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Advances in Core CFD Technology
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: Product developers may see it as a perfect storm of challenges: increased product complexity, tighter quality requirements, and higher yield and productivity indexes. Even with such constraints, ...
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Cutting Design Costs
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: With engineering managers increasingly sensitive to the cost of product design, it is no longer enough to justify engineering software based on gut feelings about its value. Managers want to see cold, ...
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What is Synchronous (Angular) Sampling?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The term synchronous data is usually applied to vibration or acoustic data that is captured from an item of rotating equipment at regularly spaced angle intervals as distinct from regularly spaced ...
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A Validated Methodology for Designing Safe Industrial Systems on a Chip
Description: Industrial automation, transportation, smart grid, and many other industries require machinery and products to be safe and certified for functional safety. Flexibility and the incremental cost for ...