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Productivity-improving technologies date back to antiquity, with rather slow progress until the late Middle Ages. Important examples of early to medieval European technology include the water wheel, the horse collar, the spinning wheel, the three-field system (after 1500 the four-field system—see crop rotation) and the blast furnace.
Controller Area Network (CAN) – an inexpensive low-speed serial bus for interconnecting automotive components; FlexRay – a general purpose high-speed protocol with safety-critical features; IDB-1394; IEBus; J1708 – RS-485 based SAE specification used in commercial vehicles, agriculture, and heavy equipment.
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it ...
Nov. 26—The base's wastewater plant occupies 11.61 acres and processes household and industrial wastewater, providing service for up to 40, 000 people. ... Navy working to speed up upgrades at ...
Cutting speed may be defined as the rate at the workpiece surface, irrespective of the machining operation used. A cutting speed for mild steel of 100 ft/min is the same whether it is the speed of the cutter passing over the workpiece, such as in a turning operation, or the speed of the cutter moving past a workpiece, such as in a milling operation.
S&P Global's flash US composite, which captures activity in both the services and manufacturing sectors, hit its highest level in 33 months during the month of December.
The most notable upgrades are the stabilized, panoramic, independent PK-PAN commander sight with integrated thermal viewer and a V-92S2 1,000 hp engine. [100] T-72B3M obr.2016. T-72B3M obr.2016: a further upgrade of the T-72B3, produced since 2016 by overhauling and upgrading old T-72B tanks from storage. [113]
Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer.He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. [1] He was one of the first management consultants. [2]