Menlo in Partnership With Siemens

Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:03 AM EDT

Menlo Worldwide announced two days ago a contract with Siemens Ltd.'s Communications Group, a global manufacturer of telecommunications and telephony products, to provide warehousing, product configuration and fulfilment services in Australia.

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business, contract, communications, siemens, logistics, menlo, menlo-worldwide, siemens-communications, worldwide-win

Lean Thinking - Result For Growth in SCM Market

Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:54 AM EDT

I saw an interesting analysis by Brian Tinham of Manufacturing Computer Solutions on the influence of lean thinking on SCM market.

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business, market, chain, supply, supply-chain, lean, lean-thinking, growth-market

Prostep Break In To North American Market

Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:05 AM EDT

"North America is a key market for PROSTEP's customers in Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Machinery, and Electronics," said Bernd Pätzold, President & CEO - PROSTEP AG.

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business, market, north, north-american, plm, scm, prostep, into-north, american-market

Patni Won The Supply Chain Customer Satisfaction Award

Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:57 AM EDT

Patni scored the highest customer satisfaction among Indian offshore providers covered in the survey. Patni's supply chain management implementation practice provides services to support planning, scheduling, sourcing, collaboration, logistics and transportation requirements.

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business, india, chain, supply, supply-chain, patni, customer-satisfaction, tops-supply

Spartan's New Supply-Chain Executive

Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:51 AM EDT

Grocery wholesaler Spartan Stores Inc. on Friday named Derek Jones, executive vice president, supply chain, Hemscott reported.

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business, executive, scm, spartan, spartan-stores

Survey on Today's Teens

Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:32 AM EDT

A recent survey of tweens, teens, and young adults shows that the percent considering an act illegal drops from 98% for stealing a CD/DVD to 80% for buying a bootleg CD/DVD to 75% for downloading unauthorized music or videos to 35% for copying a friend's CD/DVD.

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college, music, education, survey, teen, downloading, adult, copying, tweens, children-survey

The Dangers of Burning Plastics

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:53 AM EDT

Can you burn plastics? Some people think that burning plastics in wood stoves, furnaces, or in open fires is better than burying plastics in land fills. Burning garbage produces unpredictable results when burned together.

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energy, science, dioxin, plastic, alternative-energy, polyetheylene, halogenated, briquettes, burn-plastics

Taking Caution Back from the Wind

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:46 AM EDT

In just over a few years, investment companies, banks, and other financing institutions have caught on to the renewable energy fever.

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energy, banks, science, investment, financing, risk, renewable-energy

Chocolate And E.coli Can Be Used To Produce Renewable Energy

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:41 AM EDT

E.coli bacteria will be used to process confectionery wastes (from chocolate factories) to ferment the sugars, generate organic acids, and convert formic acid to hydrogen.

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energy, science, e-coli, bacteria, chocolate, renewable-energy, microbial

Company Plans To Use Garbage As Fuel And Produce Electricity

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:31 AM EDT

Ever since I started looking at renewable energy projects, the world has changed. Unsightly landfills and poor solid waste methodologies used to be a city's bane.

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energy, science, renewable-energy, biomass, gasification, geoplasma, solid-waste-management, obsolete-producing

Does The Use of Biodiesel Affects Vegetable Oil Supply?

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:24 AM EDT

Scott wrote a very interesting post on Biodiesel and its impact on the vegetable oil industry. The article that Scott referred to says that the increased use of biofuels, particularly biodiesel will have a negative impact on vegetable oil supply.

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technology, oil, economics, biodiesel, renewable-energy, supply, biofuel, castor, canola, demand-and-supply

A Breakthrough Design in Gas Turbine

Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:14 AM EDT

University of Florida: The director of the University of Florida's Energy and Gas Dynamics Systems Laboratory, William Lear has revealed a gas turbine engine that features a heat exchanger to reduce fuel costs and use a re-circulating exhaust system to lower emission levels.

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technology, energy, gas, design, university-of-florida, renewable-energy, turbine, william-lear, turbine-design

The Wired Earth

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:34 AM EDT

The man who discovered and initiated research on microbial fuel cells is Yuri Gorby, a scientist from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy. He discovered that a microbe produces tiny electrically conducive wires from its cell membrane.

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science, fuel-cell, yuri, microbial, gorby, pacific-northwest-national-laboratory, us-department-of-energy, renewab

A Microscope To See What's Inside A Fuel Cell

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:25 AM EDT

With the "MRI" for fuel cells, processes inside fuel cells can be examined, understood, and ultimately, improved.

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energy, fuel, northwestern, university, science, cells, magnetic, imaging, renewable, resonance

Photosynthesis: Back to Basics

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:16 AM EDT

Solar energy is used by plants to efficiently produce energy and food, so why cant men to the same? Michael Haumann from the Freie Universität Berlin who is studying the detailed cycles of Photosynthesis in plants, believes that understanding how solar energy is used in plants i …

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energy, radiation, science, solar, european, photosynthesis, renewable, synchrotron, facility

The Case of the Self-Cooling Soda Bottle

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:10 AM EDT

Acting as a thermal coat, the ABE could be applied to various surfaces and transform solar energy generated seamlessly. Self cooling soda bottles are a near second.

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technology, energy, system, solar, abe, renewable, active-building-envelope, rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

The Bioethanol From Corn

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:02 AM EDT

The process involves microbial fuel cells to convert organic material into electricity. The process converts all the available energy to electricity. The possible applications of microbial fuel cells that are based on corn wastes are endless.

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technology, energy, state, penn, waste, electricity, corn, renewable, biomass, bioethanol

A Prototype 3-In-1 Power, Water and Refrigeration Unit

Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:53 AM EDT

The US Army together with engineers from the University of Florida has built a successful prototype power-refrigeration unit that produces power, water, and refrigeration. Africa for example, will benefit from portable biofuel-based power-water-refrigeration units.

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technology, energy, water, electricity, us-army, university-of-florida, refrigeration

Performance Standards For Fuel Cells

Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:45 AM EDT

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched an effort to set performance standards for fuel cells, particularly for residential fuel cells. Learn more about residential fuel cell ratings here.

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technology, energy, fuel, cells, fuel-cells, standards, renewable, national-institute-of-standards-and-technology

Nanostructured Materials To Increase Lifespan of High Capacity Energy Systems

Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:37 AM EDT

Carnegie Mellon University: Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering Professor Prashant Kumta discovered a nanocrystalline material that is cheaper, stable, and produces higher quality energy storage capacity.

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technology, energy, fuel, cells, carnegie, renewable, nanocrystals, mellon-university

Hybrid Solar Lighting – The New Solar Lighting Technology

Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:03 AM EDT

The NREL's Solar Energy Research Facility is in the cutting edge of developing new solar lighting technology called Hybrid Solar Lighting.

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energy, hybrid, science, solar, lighting, renewable

The ProLogis Supply Chain Review

Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:55 AM EDT

ProLogis, global provider of distribution facilities and services, released the latest edition of the ProLogis Supply Chain Review dubbed Moving Freight Today-How Shippers are Creating Greater Capacity, Reliability, and Rate Stability.

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business, report, research, supply, supply-chain, freight, research-report, transportation-strategies

Forrester Research On A New Order Fulfillment Webseminar

Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:49 AM EDT

Industry Week has organized an interesting Webseminar for August 22, 2006 on the subject of order fulfilment management.

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business, research, order, supply-chain, fulfillment, order-fulfillment, forrester-research, featuring-forrester

Scenic Technology Associates With Optricity To Offer Superior SCE Solution

Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:42 AM EDT

According to Supply and Demand Chain Executive, Scenic Technology Corporation, a provider of supply chain execution systems on a service model, is partnering with Optricity Corporation, a developer of supply chain optimization engines, to collaborate on providing enhanced technol …

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business, execution, chain, supply, supply-chain, scenic-technology, provide-enhanced

Ryder System: iGPS's Chosen Supply Chain Logistics partner

Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:34 AM EDT

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) has selected Ryder System as its supply chain logistics partner. iGPS is spearheading a shift in the pallet-rental business from wood and other materials to uniform plastic pallets with RFID tracking capabilities.

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business, system, chain, rfid, supply, logistics, supply-chain, ryder-system, system-supply

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