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Here's a question that sounds simple but rarely gets a straight answer: what are lithium cells used for? Most articles give you a recycled list — "smartphones, laptops, EVs" — and call it a day. That's fine if you're writing a middle school science report. It's useless if you're an OEM engineer, a procurement manager, or a product developer trying to figure out which cell chemistry ...
As a machine builder, you rely on your motor controls for a vast array of functions - from maintaining system voltage when you turn on a machine, to speed and torque control, and even scheduling maintenance. All of these processes and more start with, and depend on, the motor. Fortunately, innovations in drives, motor controls, and load management are now designed with your end user’s ...
Service performed: Mold remediation Summary: To address water and mold damage incurred as result of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Mississippi coastal areas in 2005, EFI Global performed mold investigation, surveying, and remediation services at one of the nation’s leading facilities for the design, engineering, construction, and life ...
This paper outlines the 'Collaborative development, manufacturing and field verification for higher product reliability towards sustainability (CDMF–RELSUS) concept' focusing on influences and interdependences of product development, manufacturing planning and field observation regarding the successor development including the combination of reliable and sustainable product ...
Not only are they based on tried and true principles with more than a century of success in their favor, they're built to last and provide value to Owners and tenants Ion building's life cycle. Brilliant in their simplicity and yet engineered to provide unprecedented efficiency, hydronic systems provide building Owners flexibility and ...
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ph.D., computer scientist in the life cycle engineering group in the Systems Integration Division and program manager for sustainable manufacturing at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., says, “We had a program at NIST four years ago on sustainable and life cycle impact-based ...
With the advent of potent network technology, software/system engineering has evolved from a traditional platform-centric focus into a network-centric paradigm where the 'system of systems' perspective has been the norm. Under this paradigm, architecting has become a critical process in the life cycle of software/system ...
Therefore, with the objective to promote energy-saving throughout the entire life cycle of general products or systems, the authors develop a new product design method by integrating the engineering design theory and two new concepts. A case study based on a typical energy-consuming product, a commercial hair dryer, will be presented in the paper ...
This paper analyses the characteristics of Engineer-To-Order (ETO) companies, their markets, products, internal processes and supply chains. ...
Sustainability recognises the interdependence of ecological, social and economic systems and nowhere is the concept of sustainability more critical than in developing nations, whose economies rely heavily on natural resources. Software for life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming increasingly effective in evaluating the potential environmental and resource impacts ...
The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) technique and of existing methods and databases. LCA is a technique to assess the potential environmental impact associated with a product or a service throughout its life cycle from raw material acquisition through production, use and disposal. The ...
Information-Gap Decision Theory (IGDT), an approach to robust decision making under severe uncertainty, is newly considered in the context of environmental performance affected by life cycle uncertainty. An IGDT decision strategy favours the design(s) that can endure the most estimation error while still guaranteeing no worse than some 'good enough' critical ...
It combines two well-established tools: life-cycle assessment (LCA) and energy-engineering models (EEM). The approach has been applied to evaluate different car powertrains and fuels. ...