Positioners are mainly used to manipulate and position the Jobs for IG position for easy down hand welding, independent of operator's skill. Once the job is loaded it can be manipulated conveniently to complete all the welding operations in down hand position. This reduces handling time and frequent use of crane. The job can be tilted from 00 to 1350 depending on the requirement of specific location of welding. Positioners can be conveniently used for complete circumferential welding, strip cladding, for down hand position welding, to set the job conveniently for easy accessibility to intricate assemblies etc. Along with Column & Boom, a positioner can carry out any welding tasks which are impossible otherwise.

When you need to Replace Shocks

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Real time condition monitoring has become a well accepted tool for thermal assessment and accurate rating of transmission and distribution assets. However, the use of fibre optics as sensors for distributed temperature sensing (DTS) is a rather complex technology with many parameters to consider.

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R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services, a nationwide demolition and rigging contractor, recently obtained their new NYC Buildings Safety Registration.

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A battery can not accept a charge for several reasons. Your battery may have a cell orbe a bad internal short and therefore irreparable. Or it could be released so severely thatwill require a professional calliber charger to charge. Home chargers Many low voltage which must be present in the battery before the charger starts. Normally, these low voltages are well below those presented by a battery that seems to be "death ".

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Are there enough different types of PCI Express 2.0 COTS option cards available today that will enable us to take full advantage of PCIe 2.0 in various embedded computing applications?

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R&D can work together with the Casino Industry

Diversification is needed to share the risk in your financial portfolio.  But what happens when cities and towns do not share that same risk idea?  There is an initiative to bring different high tech jobs and manufacturing to the desert area we call Las Vegas.  Casinos and Shows can be exciting but jobs are needed for the large work force that is outside of that industry.  A Research and Development Center is being thought about if the right people can get behind it.  A Silicon Valley in the Desert?

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Gulf Oil Spill What Happens Next? Informational Article Post

While the state of the economy might still be cloudy and uncertain, a recent study by the Reed Information Group provides a positive outlook on the future of engineering careers. The study, conducted as part of an overall assessment of the prevailing trends in the engineering sector, analyzed responses from over 1,600 engineering professionals. The report evaluated their responses on job satisfaction as well as compensation. 

Last week we provided you with a couple of highly insightful questions that interviewees should ask potential employers during interviews. As an addendum to that guide, we thought it would be appropriate to remind you of some of the topics and actions that should be avoided at all costs.

Why we should do it.

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Over the next few months, we will regularly feature profiles of engineers who have made significant contributions to our profession. This exercise is an attempt to not only recognize and educate ourselves about these engineers, but to also remind us of the crucial role that engineers have played and continue to play.
To nominate an engineer to be part of this ongoing list, please email the details to kabaki@engineering.com.

BP recently made some headway in coming closer to the capping the notorious gusher. Here are some of the images from that effort.

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Considering Design for Manufacturability (DFM) during the design process can help reduce manufacturing costs, improve delivery time by eliminating the all-to-common "back and forth" with your board house, and increase yield.

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So what is a good question? Well, it basically depends on the position you are interviewing for and how the interview has gone thus far. Ordinarily, you will get the opportunity to ask questions after you have been interviewed; so, if your interview has been sour up to this point, this will be the only chance you get to redeem yourself. On the contrary, if you feel that you have had a good interview, then you have to maintain this perception.

In product design we have methods for preventing failures and methods for handling them when they occur - What could BP have learned from Product Design that could have prevented, helped in stopping the leak, or could help clean up the gigantic resulting mess?

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Dear Colleagues,

a new 30 min IOSO video tutorial is available for you on-line: http://vimeo.com/13029874

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None of the eight dispersant tested, including the product in use in the Gulf, displayed biologically significant endocrine disrupting activity. While the dispersant products alone – not mixed with oil - have roughly the same impact on aquatic life. 

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What Happens When Oil Coats the Ocean Surface?

By Corporal Willy, June 30th, 2010

        I had to do a little backyard experiment to test out what I was pretty sure I knew already.  It is not surprising that Crude Oil and Ocean Water affect each other, but did you think about this?  The results were alarming.

This would be used with a Jet Ski as the work horse here. A slow moving scooping action will gather up many, many barrels of oil threatening the near coast line areas. Cleanup crews already have their procedures to use when gathering the oil, tar balls and Blogs and Globs on the beach. But just off shore a hundred meters or yards or even further need to be attacked also. Mr. Crawford’s idea will deal with that.

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