Tag: Engineering

Bots-Investition treibt Rekordwachstum für britischen Hersteller Contracts Engineering voran | Stadt & Wirtschaft | Finanzen

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Produktivität ist kein Rätsel für den Blech- und Fertigungsspezialisten Contracts Engineering Ltd (CEL), dessen hochqualifizierte, von Robotern unterstützte Arbeitskräfte auf Hochtouren laufen und Rekordleistungen erzielen.

Die Anlagefinanzierung für die Automatisierung stammt von Lombard der NatWest Group und untermauert das hohe Volumen und die Wachstumsfähigkeit des Herstellers in Sittingbourne, Kent. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Belieferung von Erstausrüstern (OEMs) und Tier-1-Unternehmen (oberste Ebene) mit einer Fabrik oder einem Montagewerk im Vereinigten Königreich.

Über diese Kunden werden die Produkte von CEL nach

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Microsoft bietet Tipps für bessere Anzeigentexte mit Prompt Engineering

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Laut einer Studie von Microsoft hilft inklusive Werbung Marken dabei, Verbindungen zu Verbrauchern der Generation Z aufzubauen, was zu einer stärkeren Kaufabsicht führt.

  • 76 % möchten Marken mit authentischen Botschaften unterstützen.
  • 70 % werden einer Marke, die Vielfalt in Werbekampagnen darstellt, mehr vertrauen.
  • 47 % werden einer Marke mehr vertrauen, wenn sie sich in Anzeigen repräsentiert fühlen.

Am wichtigsten ist, dass inklusives Messaging das Endergebnis eines Unternehmens beeinflussen kann. Marken verzeichneten einen Anstieg der Kaufabsicht um 23 %, wenn sie

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‘Nuts and Bolts’ showcases the 7 building blocks of modern engineering

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Nuts and Bolts
Roma Agrawal
W.W. Norton & Co., $29.99

What do you get when you pose a challenge, weave in a cast of characters driven by hunger, frustration, curiosity, compassion or maybe even a little spite, and throw in a few twists and turns? A book about engineering.

In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal offers an updated twist on the list of six basic machines — the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and

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A new UN report lays out an ethical framework for climate engineering

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The world is in a climate crisis — and in the waning days of what’s likely to be the world’s hottest year on record, a new United Nations report is weighing the ethics of using technological interventions to try to rein in rising global temperatures.

“The current speed at which the effects of global warming are increasingly being manifested is giving new life to the discussion on the kinds of climate action best suited to tackle the catastrophic consequences of

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What Financial Engineering Does to Hospitals

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Riverton, Wyoming, a city of about 11,000 people at the feet of the Wind River mountain range, seems far away from the world of Big Finance. Yet like so much of America, Riverton has become well acquainted with the business that most epitomizes today’s Wall Street: private equity. In 2018, the local hospital, SageWest, was purchased by Apollo Global Management as part of the giant private-equity firm’s $5.6 billion deal to buy a chain of hospitals called LifePoint Health. Even

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ALEX BRUMMER: Britain must harness its science and engineering prowess to deliver lasting growth

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Britain has immense vision and ambition for big projects to drive higher productivity and a better economic future.

But the ability of government, regulators and managers to deliver is feeble.

Advocates of HS2 cannot but be appalled by the way that public confidence in a transforming infrastructure project is being undermined by leadership upheavals, budget over-runs and internecine wars over the Euston terminal in London.

The scheme has only become ‘unachievable,’ in the words of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority,

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Francois Castaing dies: Engineering ace behind Chrysler hits

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Paul Wilbur, a product planner who worked with Castaing on the cab-forward LH cars — the Chrysler Concorde, Eagle Vision and Dodge Intrepid — that debuted in 1993, said the platform team approach changed everything. “The whole company was split from chimneys and silos into platform teams, and it was really revolutionary,” said Wilbur.

“I remember very vividly talking about line rates with manufacturing guys and color choices and how many colors we should have. These were discussions that typically

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A New Generation of Robots Seems Increasingly Human

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In 1775, a Swiss watchmaker named Pierre Jaquet-Droz visited King Louis VI and Queen Marie Antoinette, in Versailles, to show off his latest creation: a “living doll” called the Musician. She was dressed in a stiff rococo ball gown and seated at an organ; as her articulated fingers danced across the keyboard, her head and eyes followed her hands, and her chest rose and fell, each “breath” animating her apparent emotional connection to the music. Jaquet-Droz proceeded to demonstrate his

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