Automation of Resistor Networks, CTS, USA

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
J. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Quality Improvements ◽  
Direct Production ◽  
Resistor Networks ◽  
Fully Automatic ◽  
Automation Project ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Constant Improvement

For several years, competition within the resistor network industry has greatly increased sizeable increases in demand. To remain competitive and a leader in the field, CTS Corporation has chosen to initiate constantly new technologies for automation. To improve overall costs, automation must take place in the area of support personnel such as clerks, engineers, management and technicians as well as with the direct production workers. It is also believed that automation should take place under a well formulated planning system. Some of the techniques being implemented at CTS of Berne to accomplish this come under discussion. First, the capability of the process should be proven. Dealt with briefly are ways in which this is accomplished and the important role it plays in the fore‐running steps of automating. Before an automation project is undertaken, the payback to the company must be assured. The steps taken to accomplish this, starting with determining the variance in output rates (not cycle rates), yield and/or quality improvements, acquiring quotations, establishing total costs, and finally computing the ROI and payback factors are all reviewed. CTS Corporation has graduated from high labour intensified manual operations to semi and fully automatic ones. Some of the techniques used to effect this transition such as bowl and vibratory feeders, walking beams, and pick‐and‐place units, are discussed. Also portrayed is the way in which a constant improvement in the automation of the process and material handling is being undertaken at CTS. Among the new generation developments are: Multiple handling of parts via tubes, magazines, and pallets; robotics; automatic 100% visual inspection, and computer and microprocessor controlled processes.

Future directions for the discovery of antibiotics from actinomycete bacteria

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Devine ◽  
Matthew I. Hutchings ◽  
Neil A. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Gene Clusters ◽  
Biosynthetic Gene Clusters ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Streptomyces Species ◽  
Genus Streptomyces ◽  
New Antibiotics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Generation

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing societal problem, and without new anti-infective drugs, the UK government-commissioned O'Neil report has predicted that infectious disease will claim the lives of an additional 10 million people a year worldwide by 2050. Almost all the antibiotics currently in clinical use are derived from the secondary metabolites of a group of filamentous soil bacteria called actinomycetes, most notably in the genus Streptomyces. Unfortunately, the discovery of these strains and their natural products (NPs) peaked in the 1950s and was then largely abandoned, partly due to the repeated rediscovery of known strains and compounds. Attention turned instead to rational target-based drug design, but this was largely unsuccessful and few new antibiotics have made it to clinic in the last 60 years. In the early 2000s, however, genome sequencing of the first Streptomyces species reinvigorated interest in NP discovery because it revealed the presence of numerous cryptic NP biosynthetic gene clusters that are not expressed in the laboratory. Here, we describe how the use of new technologies, including improved culture-dependent and -independent techniques, combined with searching underexplored environments, promises to identify a new generation of NP antibiotics from actinomycete bacteria.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON SALES FUNNELS IN B2C AND B2B SEGMENTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kiselicki ◽  
Saso Josimovski ◽  
Lidija Pulevska Ivanovska ◽  
Mijalce Santa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
World Population ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Sales Funnel ◽  
Media Data

The research focuses on introducing social media platforms as either a complementary or main channel in the company sales funnel. Internet technologies and Web 2.0 continue to provide innovations in digital marketing, with the latest iteration being lead generation services through social media. Data shows that almost half of the world population is active on social media, with the new Generation Alpha being projected to be entirely online dependent and proficient in the use of new technologies. The paper provides an overview of the digitalization of sales funnels, as well as the benefits that social media platforms can offer if implemented correctly. Secondary data provides the basis for transforming sales funnels with social media, where previous research provides limited data on the effectiveness of these types of efforts. Primary data demonstrates that introducing social media platforms can provide improvements of up to 3 to 4 times in analyzed case studies, as well as the shorter time when deciding about purchase in use case scenarios. Social media advertising can also be utilized to shorten the sales funnel process and serve as a unified point of entrance and exit in the first few stages.

A new generation of collaborative robots for material handling

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Gambao ◽  
M. Hernando ◽  
D. Surdilovic
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Collaborative Robots ◽  
New Generation

Constructing a Model of the Adoption of New Technologies of U-Commerce

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humphry Hung ◽  
Vincent Cho ◽  
Y.H. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
New Generation

The rapid growth of u-commerce, the new generation of e-commerce, together with the need for the adoption of new technologies, has necessitated the need for effective organizational changes to this challenging and eminent trend. The authors posit that firms should explore the consumers’ perception of u-commerce and further exploit the strategic advantages of u-commerce with reference to their adoption of new u-commerce technologies. They propose a conceptual reference framework for helping organizations deal with this dynamic situation.

Stochastically Balancing Trees for File and Database Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Aziz Barbar ◽  
Anis Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
The Self ◽  
List Structure ◽  
Indexing Structure ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Storage Technologies ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Disk Access ◽  
Constant Improvement

With the constant improvement in data storage technologies, a new generation of indexing mechanisms is to be created to exploit the improvements in disk access speeds that were previously impractical. The self-balancing tree B-Tree, has long been the indexing structure of choice for reducing the amount of disk access at the expense of size of data block to be read or written. A new technique based on a dynamically growing multilevel list structure, which is stochastically balanced rather than self balanced, is discussed and compared to the B-Tree. An analogy between the technique and the structures is established to better compare the computational complexities.

scholarly journals INTEGUMENTARY REHABILITATION- AN IGNORED AREA IN PHYSICAL THERAPY

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Usman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Healing Tissue ◽  
Health Related ◽  
New Generation

Besides many other health related fields, Physical therapy is expected to grow with an average rate of 40% in 20171. New generation entering in the field of physiotherapy are experiencing revolutionary changes. Integumentary rehabilitation is one of undergoing radical changes as the research work is revealing the anonymities of complex manners of the wound healing, tissue reparation, deprivation and revival of tissues.Evidence-based practices bring innovation and new technologies helping in the wound healing, but it is an ignored field in Pakistan, where physiotherapists lack in knowledge of Integumentary rehabilitation. Rehabilitationteams are working for about five decades on the dynamic changes occurring in wound careconcept2.

scholarly journals Evolution of the Web: from Web 1.0 to 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Asaad Khaleel Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Interaction Network ◽  
Web Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
New Generation

The internet has become a vital component of the twenty-first century as technology has advanced. The number of new technologies emerging in tandem with the qualities supplied by the Internet is rapidly increasing. The World Wide Web (WWW), which is commonly referred to as the world's largest information environment, is a vital virtual environment in which internet users may trade, read, and publish information using a Web browser. Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 technologies have all been seen and are still being observed in this review paper. However, there is no clear definition for Web 4.0, which is a 4th generation web technology, in the literature. Web 4.0 has multiple dimensions, as seen by the first examples that have appeared. Big data, augmented reality, machine-to-machine communication (M2M), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as well as smart agents, will be able to integrate in the future years. Web 4.0 is a web technology revolution that includes a new internet of things (IoT) that interacts with a variety of models. The goal of this study is to clarify the notion of Web 4.0, which is viewed as an intelligent and symbiotic (human-machine interaction) network with massive interfaces and linkages, as well as to contribute to the literature by studying its many dimensions and investigating its links with new generation technologies.

scholarly journals The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksim Sharabov ◽  
Georgi Tsochev
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Industrial Robotics ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Generation

This article presents a brief overview of the effect of new technologies, how they are changing the manufacturing process, and how the machines are starting to get a lot smarter thanks to the artificial intelligence. The focus is over the examination of Industry 4.0 and how it revolutionized the whole manufacturing segment and what promise of a better, more efficient future it brings. This analysis focuses primarily on how artificial intelligence is integrated, what benefits it brings, and how big of an improvement it is over basic programming. Part of the research is based on 771 publications tracked over the past three to five years. Publications are within some of the well-known databases Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEE. We will examine the basic use case scenarios where AI is crucially needed and how a new generation of the factory can look and feel like a living human being. Keywords: Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, predictive maintenance, industrial robotics, computer vision.

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