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Washboarding or corrugation [1] is the formation of periodic, transverse ripples in the surface of gravel and dirt roads. Washboarding occurs in dry, granular road material [ 2 ] with repeated traffic, traveling at speeds above 8.0 kilometres per hour (5 mph). [ 3 ]
This corrugation causes more noise and corrugation, not only in the original location but elsewhere in the system. In 2015, after replacing 6,500 feet (1,981 m) and grinding down (smoothing) 3 miles (4.8 km) of rail in the tube, BART reported a reduction of noise there and positive feedback from riders. [28]
Ashok Leyland Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturer, with its headquarters in Chennai.It is now owned by the Hinduja Group. [3] It was founded in 1948 as Ashok Motors, which became Ashok Leyland in the year 1955 after collaboration with British Leyland. [4]
An automatic factory is a place where raw materials enter, and finished products leave with little or no human intervention. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of the earliest descriptions of the automatic factory in fiction was the 1955 short story " Autofac ," by Philip K. Dick .
The company was founded on 18 November 1926 as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. by Sakichi Toyoda, the inventor of a series of manual and machine-powered looms.The most significant of these was the 1924 Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G, a completely automatic high-speed loom featuring the ability to change shuttles without stopping and dozens of other innovations.
An automated vacuum waste collection system, also known as pneumatic refuse collection, or automated vacuum collection (AVAC), transports waste at high speeds through underground pneumatic tubes to a collection station where the waste is compacted and sealed in containers.
JATCO Ltd (Japanese: ジヤトコ株式会社, Hepburn: Jiyatoko Kabushiki-gaisha), or Japan Automatic Transmission Company, is a company that manufactures automatic transmissions for automobiles. History
It enabled sophisticated alarm handling, introduced automatic event logging, removed the need for physical records such as chart recorders, allowed the control racks to be networked and thereby located locally to plant to reduce cabling runs, and provided high level overviews of plant status and production levels.