The $300 House: Not Charity, Innovation!
Some believe home ownership is a key to a feeling of personal security and some call it “empowering the poor”. In the developed world housing prices and the financing of home loans seem to be…
Engineering
In Depth: Industrial Internet Will Add $15 Trillion to Global GDP by 2030
The Industrial Internet is described as an “ecosystem of connected machines and software” designed to increase efficiency, minimize waste, and help people make better decisions. A recent GE white paper “Pushing the Boundaries of Minds…
Largest Power Generating Hydroelectric Dams in the World
According to IEEE Spectrum energy from water makes up about one-fifth of the world’s electricity or about 900 gigawatts; the trend will continue due to a large number of powerful rivers and hydro’s low cost…
Epic Engineering Failures Can Lead to Massive Loss of Life
Failure is a part of life and serves as a “teachable moment” for those who are open to learning. Human history is full of failures, sometimes very tragic as is evident in the following examples…
Building Automation & Controls Market to Reach $50 billion by 2018
Building Automation and Controls (BAC) are a combination of hardware and software that control a building’s power systems; lighting and illumination; electric power and control; security, observation and magnetic card access; heating, ventilation and air-conditioning…
Programming Cells to Perform Disease-Fighting Computations
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Surgical Snake Robots: Accessing Organs and Tissues Deep in the Body
In a recent IndustryTap article “InSightec of Israel . . .” we looked at the next generation non-invasive operating room; clearly the development of minimally invasive technologies to repair and diagnose illnesses is a major…
Haskel’s “No-Hassle” Liquid Pump Selector Saves Time and Money
Unproductive online searching for critical information on key products is so “last century.” Keeping with its history and mission of providing excellent products and service Haskel International (Haskel) has introduced an innovative online search tool.…
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion May Have Been Prevented by Limit Switch Technology
Wednesday night a fire broke out at 7:00 pm at an industrial fertilizer plant owned by Adair Grain Inc. in West, Texas, a town of about 2,600 people, just north of Waco. As many as…
Looking for CAD Models? GrabCAD has them for free.
GrabCAD collaboration platform, at 350,000 members, is building the largest mechanical engineering team in the World Founded in 2009 in Estonia by Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk, GrabCAD, now headquartered in Boston, MA, is a…
