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This product may provide "long-term electrochemical protection" against the deterioration of the steel rebar in the concrete, the article states. When this "pressure-sensitive" zinc-hydrogel solution is applied an "iconic current" is conducted. Wire Continue Reading...
This system has the ease of being used in any lighthouse irrespective of its current lighting and power systems. Due to this, Vega is the sole company in the world having such advanced technological and optical competencies. Through the system, all Continue Reading...
Business Systems
Why is it important to use systems analysis and design methodologies when building a system? Why not just build the system in whatever way seems to be "quick and easy?" What value is provided by using an "engineering" approach?
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Force Management Challenge -- Army
Force Management Challenge - Army
Change management in the short-term is a substantive challenge of any organization. When change management extends far into the future, the challenges increase exponentially. To e Continue Reading...
The examples and the codes show that healthy competition is good, but must not lead to disrespectful cut-throat practices. Further, as these documents say, the engineer must resist the drive for individual gain if it puts the entire profession at st Continue Reading...
It is essential for company managers, safety practitioners and manufacturing engineers to be informed of and gain sufficient knowledge about current research developments in this field and implement safety strategies as well as systems to minimize o Continue Reading...
Human Element
Computer systems design has come a long way from the time when Dijkstra first began exploring time sharing mechanism in the workings of the keyboard. In his day, computers were the realms of scientists and technical people. Operating Continue Reading...
(Wolverine Tube Heat Transfer Data Book, 2009)
Basic components of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers include the following basic components although there is a plethora of existing specific features used in design of the Shell and Heat Tube Exchanger. Continue Reading...
Prototyping?
The development of the prototyping methodology
The Benefits of using Prototyping today
The evolution of Rapid Prototyping
The creation and development of three banking websites using prototypes
Prototyping for banking related GUI
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ICT SME
ICT Utilization in SMEs
The underutilization of information and communication technology (ICT) in small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is well documented. In this segment of the economy companies are slow to integrate ICT technologies i Continue Reading...
The main framework is however the Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) theory that was proposed by Rogers (1995). Other factors are however incorporated so as to make use understand the user adoption of the ENUM technology. The users possessing high adopti Continue Reading...
Levine also notes that the result of the government patchwork of funding is that private firms jump into the technological progress market, with even worse economic results. "Private firms focus their research efforts according to short-term, marke Continue Reading...
Due to the nation having such extremely low wage production costs, it is actually cheaper for China to produce old goods with older and possibly more outdated technologies because they have a greater labor source at much less expensive costs than wo Continue Reading...
In the most successful SMB implementations of collaborative new product development tools including PLM and PDM, priority is put first on process definition and process improvement. Once processes have been defined, continually managed to greater ef Continue Reading...
Kenneth K. Humphreys' book, What Every Engineer should Know about Ethics, is a fairly useful and comprehensive guide to the ethics and ethical codes involved in modern engineering. He begins his book with a chapter entitled "Problem-Solving in Engine Continue Reading...
U.S. statistics indicate that 80% of aviation accidents are due to human errors with 50% due to maintenance human factor problems. Current human factor management programs have not succeeded to the degree desired. Many industries today use performanc Continue Reading...
Within these findings are many insights and differences in opinion as to the benefits and caveats of XBRL adoption. In the a case of HMRC, privacy issues are a key factor in the reason for their partial adoption of XBRL, rather than the full adoptio Continue Reading...
The epoxy supplier knew full well that his brand wasn't good for the long haul and assumed the construction bosses knew that too -- but they did not know that.
So, the bottom line is that the I-35W bridge "apparently lacked the kind of redundancy p Continue Reading...
Nanotechnology
All manufactured products are made from atoms, with the properties of these products based on how atoms are put together. By rearranging coal atoms, diamonds are formed. Similarly, by rearranging the atoms in sand and adding some trac Continue Reading...
Women and the Information Technology Industry: Where is the Attraction?
Opportunities in technology companies are fueling the economy, yet few women pursue them. A recent Pittsburgh Technology Council panel discussion revealed that there are many re Continue Reading...
This will not only create a higher level of trust in the actual implementation, it will also set the foundation for more effective ongoing support for these users if they have any problems with the systems once they are installed. An effective chang Continue Reading...
Innovation & Creativity
FedEx was founded as an innovator in a logistics field that had never seen overnight delivery before. The company has always positioned itself as a premium provider in the business, based on its sophisticated technology, Continue Reading...
Facility Location Decision
Facility location has been an imperative research area in economics, regional progress, in addition to industrial management for more than a few decades. More lately, the worldwide propagation of regional industrial center Continue Reading...
Systems Implementation
System Implementations
Describe the company, the business problem the company was addressing with the system implementation, the system chosen to implement, and the company's rationale for selecting the system to solve the pr Continue Reading...
Configuration Management
Design Methodology for producing Modularity
Aspects of modular product design:
Attribute integrity
Process integrity
Process stability
Details oriented
Scope, procedures, goals, and objectives
Simple configuration con Continue Reading...
Challenger Launch Decision
JOE KILMINSTER'S ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE CHALLENGER DISASTER
On January 28, 1986, the Challenger, one of the reusable space shuttle by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA, was launched off at the John Continue Reading...
Problem Solving
Systems Thinking, Technology, and Organizational Change
Models of Problem Solving
Different Approaches to Problem Solving
Brainstorming
Risk Assessment
Flow Charts
Mind Mapping
Identification of Complex Problem
Analyzing the Continue Reading...
Quality, cost-competitiveness, customer service and first-to-market are all essential determinants to global commercial success. All sectors of the economic market are obliged to reduce costs and production times while increasing profits and market Continue Reading...
Organizational Health
Educational institutions generally approach organizational improvement by addressing the performance standards to which students, educators, and administrators are held. The standards movement has been a dominant theme in educa Continue Reading...
There are several reasons why this model is particularly relevant for outsourcing relationship maturity. First, at the lowest level of the model the focus is on purely reacting, which is exactly what many companies do when they are stressed with co Continue Reading...
However, the company did feel it should develop its own Database infrastructure that would work with the new underlying database management system and would mesh with existing organizational skills and the selected enterprise software solution.
Bec Continue Reading...
IT Management Challenges
Business Process Reengineering works with changes in structures and processes within the business environment. Information technology plays a highly critical part in BPR as it deals with the provision of office automation, g Continue Reading...
Normally, the designer's direct involvement into the user-research process is noted to be limited. There is however a need for a close collaboration between the researchers and the designers so that the quality attributes that are desired by the cl Continue Reading...
i.e. modifying the domain name system.
7. DNS-Based Phishing ("Pharming"): This offense is based on interference in the domain name searching process by modifying the domain name resolution sending the user to a different IP address.
8. Content-In Continue Reading...
Dotcom.com Management and Communication Problem Resolution
Discuss how you would begin redesigning dotcom.com's project management processes to minimize the problems it is experiencing with poor scope management.
To minimize Dotcom.com's problems i Continue Reading...
Organizational Structure
According to Pugh (1990), the organizational structure is an instrument that appears from the need to fulfill the organizational aims and objectives with the tools and activities that are available. Following the way that th Continue Reading...
Problem Solving Case Study
Merging Information Technology and Cultures at Compaq-Digital (B):
Becoming a Single Firm
The many challenges and opportunities evident for Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) illustrated in the case study Mer Continue Reading...
Filling these top positions are cumbersome and, occasionally, controversial. Appointment tenure takes time to decide and may often be short leading to confusion within the administration itself, to inaction in decision and work, rapid turn-around an Continue Reading...
F.A: Yes, if you work with any software especially developing websites you will face many problems, but you should be patient to solve them (1).
I.A: Definitely, my career has always centered on developing various applications and programs to our Continue Reading...
Damns on Wildlife and the Environment
Background to Dams and Levees - One of the issues resulting from civilization and urbanization is that most of the places humans chose to locate, for reasons of convenience, agriculture, transportation, and eco Continue Reading...