Posted May 10, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
When designing a power protection scheme for their data center, IT and facilities managers must ask themselves whether a distributed or centralized backup strategy makes more sense. Unfortunately, the...
Posted May 9, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy.
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Posted May 9, 2013 by Epicor in Editorial
Continuous process improvement is more critical than ever for manufacturers to become lean. One key area of focus is on the flow of product from supplier to customer. Naturally, any process that imped...
Posted May 8, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Fact or fiction? Stained glass found in medieval cathedrals becomes thicker at the bottom because glass moves over time. For years researchers have had their doubts, now a team at Texas Tech Universit...
Posted May 8, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Cloud computing poses unique power, cooling and availability challenges as well. To meet them, businesses must increase the strength and resiliency of both their electrical and mechanical infrastructu...
Posted May 7, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it -- an object's location, size, s...
Posted May 7, 2013 by Epicor in Editorial
Read this complimentary Aberdeen Group report, ERP in Manufacturing 2012: The Evolving ERP Strategy, now to learn more about best-in-class manufacturing approaches to ERP strategy.
Today, 92% of Ma...
Posted May 6, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Seven years ago, Duke University engineers demonstrated the first working invisibility cloak in complex laboratory experiments. Now it appears creating a simple cloak has become a lot simpler.
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Posted May 6, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
From plug and receptacle charts and facts about power problems to an overview of various UPS topologies and factors affecting battery life, you’ll find a wealth of pertinent resources designed to he...
Posted May 3, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, ...
Posted May 2, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility is ...
Posted May 2, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Your physical IT equipment, especially within a data center, needs to be protected in order to ensure continuous uptime for your organization.
Read this free guide to:
Learn about power, cooli...
Posted May 1, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Just as people have embraced computers and smart phones, they may also give their blessing to talking tissue boxes and other smart objects, according to Penn State researchers.
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Posted April 30, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a unique integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. Compared to today's electric vehicle chargers, they have mana...
Posted April 30, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Arc flashes—the fiery explosions that can result from short circuits in high-power electrical devices—kill hundreds of workers in the U.S. every year and permanently injure thousands more. They ca...
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