MISSION:

Provide the warfighter with 5.56 mm (Ball/Tracer) ammo that improves hard and soft target performance while eliminating more than 2,000 metric tons of lead annually from training ranges.

DESCRIPTION:

The M855A1 Ball Enhanced Performance Round contains an environmentally friendly projectile that eliminates up to 2,000 tons of lead from the manufacturing process each year in direct support of Army commitment to environmental stewardship. The M855A1 is tailored for use in the M-4 weapon system (Colt M4 Carbine and Colt M4A1 Carbine Short Barreled Rifle platforms) but also improves the performance of the M-16 assault rifle and M-249 (FN M249 SAW/LMG) families of weapons. The M855A1 steel penetrator is effective against light armored targets while its three-piece construction maintains operational capabilities against unprotected personnel targets. The M855A1 enhances performance on hard targets or barriers. It contains an improved propellant which reduces flash.

Read more at: asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/peo-ammo-5-56-mm-ball-m85...

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AMâ9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a âfactory of the futureâ continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating âsmartâ and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nationâs âMade in China 2025â strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

A specialist centre to develop new manufacturing processes for lightweight materials for the aerospace and automotive industries is to be set up as a first step towards creating a National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland.

The First Minister announced today that the £8.9m Lightweight Manufacturing Centre, being set up in the former Doosan Babcock facility in Westway, Renfrew, will support highly skilled jobs and help place Scotland at the forefront of lightweight manufacturing.

The company was founded by John Dyson who began mining clay and making bricks in the early 1800s. From the very beginning the business was a success. The 1834 Sheffield trade directory lists - “John Dyson - Brick Maker, Stannington” which indicates that he ran the business on his own. However, by 1838 the business was listed as “John Dyson and Son - Black clay miners and firebrick manufacturers, Griffs House, Stannington.

Dyson's were manufacturers of Refractory material, ceramics for the steel industry, they also produce fire backs and other household ceramic bricks for the likes of Aga's etc. They have also been know to sell clay for use in Well Dressings.

Unfortunately Dyson's traditional manufacturing process relied heavily on gas fired kilns. With increased in energy costs the plants was no longer economically viable, despite the very best efforts of the management and staff alike the site closed around 2005.

The high performance niche products in Dyson's range are still available and are the cornerstone in Dyson's progression. The company have a wholly owned manufacturing facility in Tianjin, PRC which produces is high quality products.

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AMâ9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a âfactory of the futureâ continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating âsmartâ and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nationâs âMade in China 2025â strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

A change-making, industry-shaking fabric, Revolution is a breakthrough in textile circularity.

The first fabric to be produced using Camira’s advanced textile recycling capability, iinouiio, Revolution uses waste wool yarn from our own manufacturing processes to create a fabric that is truly closing the loop, and opening the door to a new, exciting era of sustainability.

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Today, nonwovens are much more than just a fabric. Nonwovens are used in numerous markets such as the automotive or clothing industry, in the construction or medical sector, for numerous purposes. It is also used in the electrical industry: As phase insulation in the production of electric motors, as a resin carrier in laminates or as layer insulation in the production of transformers.

Advantages of nonwovens

Basically, nonwoven offers many advantages as a technical textile. Due to its composition of different fibers, the material can be adapted to its subsequent application in terms of composition, bonding of the fibers and manufacturing process. Spunbonded nonwovens, for example, are suitable as a material for manufacturing numerous hygiene articles such as baby diapers or bandages, but also for technical applications or the construction industry.

Production of nonwovens

Nonwovens are manufactured using innovative technologies and, depending on the production process, are perfectly tailored to the needs of the respective application areas. The product portfolio comprises numerous technical textiles and fabrics – including nonwovens such as staple fiber nonwovens, spunbond nonwovens, meltblown nonwovens or wetlaid nonwovens.

Differentiation of nonwovens

There are 4 types of nonwovens:

Staple fiber nonwovens

Spunbond nonwovens

Meltblown nonwovens

Wetlaid nonwovens

To the individual nonwoven types

Staple fiber nonwovens

Staple fiber nonwovens are used for technical textiles with high elasticity and variable basis weight. Staple fiber nonwovens are made from staple fibers that nonwoven manufacturers usually buy in. These fibers are opened and blended before processing. Nonwovens are formed on carding machines with rotating rolls. If high basis weights are to be achieved, crosslappers are used.

Depending on the application, a wide range of raw materials can be processed, e.g. synthetic fibers including viscose as well as natural, glass and carbon fibers.

Raw materials used for staple fiber nonwovens

Synthetic fibers including viscose, natural, glass and carbon fibers.

Meltblown nonwovens

Meltblown nonwovens are very fine, melt-spun microfibers for a wide variety of applications. The meltblown process is similar to spunbond technology. At the nozzle tip, a hot gas stream flows at high velocity around the extruded, molten polymer. The turbulent hot gas flow below the nozzle scatters the filaments from about 500 microns below the nozzle to about 1 micron on the collection belt.

Compared to spunbond technology, the required melt flow index (MFI) value of the polymer is very high, and the throughput through the single spinneret is very low. The low throughput through very small nozzle holes and the high melt index provide the basis for spinning very fine fibers.

Spunbond nonwovens

Unlike staple fiber nonwoven technology, spunbond technology eliminated the costly first process step of fiber spinning. In this process, synthetic polymers are extruded as granules of different geometries. The molten polymer, mainly polypropylene, polyester or polyethylene, is spun into continuous filaments using spinnerets.

These filaments are first cooled and stretched with air below the spinnerets, and finally deposited on a collecting belt – a process that takes place continuously. In this process, polyester must be spun at higher speeds than polypropylene in order to achieve the desired quality characteristics such as titer, strength, elongation and shrinkage.

Wetlaid nonwovens

In this process, staple fibers of up to 12 mm staple length are dispersed in water in large tanks, often blended with viscose or wood pulp. The water-fiber pulp dispersion is then pumped onto an inclined screen and continuously deposited. The water is extracted, filtered and returned to the process.

In addition to synthetic fibers, glass, ceramic and carbon fibers are also used in this process. To distinguish wetlaid nonwovens from papers, wetlaid nonwovens must process more than 30 percent by weight of fibers with a slenderness ratio greater than 300.

Contract slitting and cutting of nonwovens

We slit nonwovens from all manufacturers into narrow cut rolls on our slitting lines.

The post Nonwovens: Materials, Technologies & Applications appeared first on Dr. Dietrich Müller GmbH.

www.mueller-ahlhorn.com/nonwovens-materials-technologies-...

In spring 1917, the British Royal Flying Corps introduced the Sopwith Triplane, a three-winged version of the earlier Sopwith Pup fighter. The “Tripe” was only built in limited numbers, but it was issued to elite pilots, such as the famous “Black Flight” of the Royal Naval Air Service—commanded by ace Raymond Collishaw, the Black Flight’s five Triplanes shot down 87 German aircraft in three months.

The German Luftstreitskrafte reacted with shock. To this point, the Germans had usually enjoyed a qualitative advantage over the Allies in the air with their Albatros D.IIIs The Triplane could operate higher and was faster than German fighters, which gave their British and Canadian adversaries the advantage in a dogfight. Germany embarked on a crash program to field their own triplanes, with 37 manufacturers all producing prototypes. The best by far, however, was Fokker’s Dreidekker I, abbreviated Dr.I. After a short period of testing of prototypes, two pre-production aircraft were built and sent to the Western Front for evaluation. Both were given to exceptional pilots—Manfred von Richthofen and Werner Voss. Richthofen, testing the Dr.I in combat for the first time in September 1917, promptly shot down two aircraft and proclaimed the Dr.I a superb aircraft, if tricky to fly. If there was any doubt of its lethality, it was removed on 23 September, when Voss engaged nine British SE.5s of 56 Squadron, all of which were flown by British aces with more than ten victories apiece. Though Voss was killed, his skill and the Dr.I’s manueverability held off nine British aces for ten minutes. Fokker immediately received a production order for 300 Dr.Is.

In combat, the Dr.I was not as fast as the Albatros, but it had a higher rate of climb and phenomenal manueverability—the design was slightly unstable, but an experienced pilot could use its high lift, light controls, and the torque of the engine to make snap rolls to the right almost within the length of the aircraft. It required an experienced pilot, especially on landing, where the torque of the engine and the wings also had a tendency to ground-loop the aircraft. This could be fatal, because the position of the two Spandau machine guns extending into the cockpit could cause a crash-landing pilot to hurtle forward into the gun butts, face-first. The Oberursel engine had a tendency to fall off in power at higher altitudes due to poor lubrication. By far, however, the worst drawback of the Dr.I was its tendency towards wing failures, which were initially believed due to poor workmanship by Fokker. It would be not until after the war that it was learned that the very triple-winged design of the Dreidekker was the problem: the top wing exerted more lift than the bottom two, with the result that the top wing would literally lift itself away from the rest of the aircraft. While it was possible to still fly with the missing top wing, the Dr.I would not fly for long and the pilot would have to make a high-speed landing in an aircraft notorious for crash landings.

Though the Dr.I was issued to two Jasta wings, including von Richthofen’s, in 1917-1918, it was never very popular with the majority of German pilots, and the production of the superb Fokker D.VII, which started about the same time, meant that the Luftstreitskrafte already had a fighter that was faster and more durable than the Dr.I, if not quite as manueverable. A few German aces still preferred the Dr.I, namely von Richthofen—because of the Dreidekker was good at something, it was attacking from ambush. A skilled ace could quickly gain altitude over an unsuspecting enemy, dive down, attack, and then use the kinetic energy built in the dive to zoom back to position, or manuever out of trouble with a quick right roll. Von Richthofen would score his last 20 (out of 80) kills in the Dr.I.

Following the end of World War I, nearly all of Germany’s fighters were purposely burned, either by their own pilots or by the Allies. By World War II, only one Dr.I was known to exist, one of von Richthofen’s aircraft, preserved in a museum in Berlin; the museum was flattened in an Allied bombing raid in 1944. Today, only scattered pieces of original Dr.Is exist. However, the simple manufacturing process of World War I fighters meant that reproductions could easily be built, and several dozen Dr.I replicas continue to fly today.

This is one of those replicas, built by a Frank Heidenreich in 1981. Naturally, as there were no Oberursel engines left, a Warner engine was used instead. It is painted as the most famous Dr.I ever, WK 127/17, flown by the most famous air ace of all, Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron." The original was built as Richthofen's "show plane," which he would fly to war bond tours and for cameras; there is no evidence Richthofen ever flew the aircraft in combat. Though Richthofen became famous for his red aircraft, the Maltese cross had been replaced by the easier to maintain Latin cross by 1917, and Richthofen's combat Dr.Is did not have Maltese crosses. By far, however, WK 127/17 is the most famous Dreidekker ever, and it was the last to survive--the one destroyed in 1944.

Mr. Heidenreich's replica was donated to the Stonehenge Air Museum at Fortine, Montana, and today is displayed at the entrance to the museum building. Though it's not an original engine, it has been modified to spin like the real Oberursel did, and the propeller acts as a ceiling fan! (Hence the blurred prop in the picture.)

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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft

Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.

Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.

*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.

What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.

Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)

To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5

However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.

Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation

Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.

Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes

For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.

Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources

Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.

Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.

As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.

As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).

Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction

Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.

Improved Bow Shock Interaction

Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.

6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance

To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.

*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope

Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling

With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.

Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition

Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.

Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities

Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.

Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)

To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.

A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.

Unimog was conceived in 1944 and built post WW2 in Germany as a 4WD tractor cum off road vehicle cum road worthy lorry. Production began in 1948 at Boehringer in Göppingen but success required a larger manufacturing process so Daimler-Benz took over production in 1951 at Gaggenau and was sold under the Mercedes-Benz brand.

Since 2002 vehicles have been built in the Mercedes-Benz truck plant in Wörth am Rhein in Germany.

David Mellor Visitor Centre

David Mellor was internationally famous for his cutlery.

His chic factory in Hathersage, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, and purpose-built on the site of the old gasworks, is hailed as a minor masterpiece of modern architecture.

Built in local gritstone with a spectacular lead roof, it blends beautifully into the rural landscape.

The factory is open for viewing on Sundays, and visitors are welcome to take a look around and watch the various designs being made.

The manufacturing process is surprisingly low-tech and most of it is done by hand – this explains why the cutlery is so expensive and so collectable.

In addition to the factory, there is also a stylish shop, a classy café and a small but interesting design museum.

David Mellor died in 2009, and his talented son Corin continues the design tradition at Hathersage.

www.davidmellordesign.com/about

The Shop

Davis Mellor’s Embassy Toast Rack.

On display in the stylish shop.

Designed in 1963 for use in British embassies.

A bargain at a mere £1,250.

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AM–9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a “factory of the future” continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating “smart” and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nation’s “Made in China 2025” strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AM–9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a “factory of the future” continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating “smart” and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nation’s “Made in China 2025” strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

Here's where Experience truly counts. As previously stated, I figure that a large LED clock or scroller would fit into my home decor rather well. But only for a certain desperately-low price.

$10? Perfect. But I passed on this. First, the seller couldn't vouch whether or not it worked (he himself had bought it untested, and had never tested it). Secondly, I examined it and it requires a power supply with very weird specs.

A missing power supply usually isn't a problem. You have to have the exact voltage but the current isn't important so long as the power supply can meet or exceed the device's needs.

I have a whole bucket of random power supplies. Chances are excellent that I have what I need. I even have a couple of bench supplies that let me "dial in" the right power.

But this thing needed something kind of exotic. I knew I didn't have anything in the bucket and buying something that I could plug and leave in the wall could have quadrupled the cost of the display.

IF it worked. And I had no clues about that. I might have bought it just so I could take it apart and repurpose what appeared to be a series of 5x7 LED matrix displays. Even there: I had no idea how it had been assembled. If each component had just been soldered in, extraction would have been straighforward, if tedious. If the company had simplified the manufacturing process by using an epoxy to hold all of these things in alignment, then it'd be a huge, messy hassle.

So: pass. With a pang of regret.

Beyond Prototyping is a research project looking at the dynamics between the designer, manufacturing process and the consumer in creating everyday products in the age of digital fabrication. The “meaning” of an artifact transcends its physical utility and technical characteristics and is increasingly a personal narrative. The three case studies, Ciphering, Locatable and Highlight illustrate different strategies of how the experts and the target audience can together create meaningful, unique artifacts, based on an algorithmic design idea and through an online platform for intuitive interaction.

credit: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair

ethnic Tamil labor

--- 4600 feet elevation

--- each tea leaf is picked by hand rather than by mechanization

--- no artificial preservatives are added at any stage of the manufacturing process

Nuwara Eliya District

Sri Lanka --- the world's fourth largest producer of tea

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AMâ9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a âfactory of the futureâ continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating âsmartâ and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nationâs âMade in China 2025â strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

040

Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AM–9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a “factory of the future” continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating “smart” and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nation’s “Made in China 2025” strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

Graver - "PALEO TOOLS: The kinds of tools used by the Paleoindians can tell us much about their way of life. Most of the tools surviving today are made of stone. Spear points, knives, drills, and scrapers are typical Paleoindian artifacts. They were used for a variety of tasks, including hunting and butchering animals, processing plants, and working raw materials to make other tools. Archaeological sites of the Paleoindians contain mostly chipped stone tools and waste flakes left from the manufacturing process. However it is almost certain that these people made wide use of other raw materials including bone, wood, ivory, and antler. Objects made of these materials do not preserve as well as stone and have likely decayed over the past 10,000 years. Springs, sinkholes and deep river beds offer good conditions for preserving organic materials because of their high mineral content and lack of oxygen. Fragments of bone, wood, and other plant remains will give clues to future archaeologists who research the skills that Paleoindians needed to survive in Ice Age Florida. " ~ Display at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Photo 091712-013.jpg) Paleoindians section of the Division of Historical Resources - Florida Museum of History - Where I used to work - September 17, 2012: A Walk Down Memory Lane - revisiting College Town - Tallahassee, Florida. (c) 2012 - photography by Leaf McGowan, Thomas Baurley, Eadaoin Bineid - technogypsie.com. To purchase this photo or to obtain permission to use, go to www.technogypsie.com/photography/

"PALEOINDIANS: The earliest people who inhabited North America are called Paleoindians. They came to Florida during the end of the last Ice Age, at least 12,000 years ago. Their way of life lasted for about 2,500 years. Archaeologists have found few Paleoindian sites. If, as it seems likely, these early people lived along the coast of Florida, their settlements have been covered by the rising sea level. Compared to later Florida Indian cultures, Paleoindians lived in small, widely dispersed groups. Their artifacts are often found around outcrops of a flint-like rock called chert. Pieces of chert were chipped, or knapped, to make stone tools. Paleoindian artifacts are also found in springs, sinkholes and rivers that were probably ancient waterholes. These were important sources of fresh water in an otherwise dry landscape.

PALEO TIMELINE: 12,000 B.P. to 9,500 B.P. (Before present) - EARLY PALEO PERIOD: 12,000-10,000 BP - Simpson point on mammoth ivory foreshaft (circa 11,500 BP) - First evidence of people on the Florida peninsula, Paleoindians live a semi-nomadic life, hunt big game like mastadon, climate was drier than today, and sea level is more than 100 feet lower than today. - Bison antiguns skull with embedded spearpoint, Wacissa River (circa 11,000 BP).

LATE PALEO PERIOD: 10,000 to 9500 BP - stone bola weight (circa 10,000 BP) had most big game animals extinct, wetter climate prevails, sea level rises gradually, several new styles of stone points appear, like the side notched bolan point. " ~ Display in the Florida Museum of Natural History.

For more information visit:

Paleoindians: www.technogypsie.com/science/?p=939 (expected publication December 2012)

Tallahassee: www.technogypsie.com/reviews/?p=5093 (Expected publication November 2012)

Florida: www.technogypsie.com/reviews/?p=5079 (Expected Publication December 2012)

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For travel tales, visit:

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Until its closure in 1968 Thomas Nelsons was one of the most successful publishing houses in the world. The company had been trading in Edinburgh since 1798 when Thomas Nelson established a second-hand bookshop at the West Bow. The experience as a bookseller convinced Thomas of the existence of a ready market for cheap, standard editions of non-copyright works, and he satisfied it by issuing popular editions of classics.However, with the building in 1845 of a new printing house at Hope Park, the complete book manufacturing process was carried out under one roof, with a pay-roll of over four hundred employees.

A fire devastated Hope Park in 1878, causing damage estimated between £100,000 and £200,000. Within two months Thomas Nelson and Sons were back in operation, albeit on a limited scale. Within two years the production works moved to a new site at Parkside near the brothers’ own properties. The calamity at Hope Park had brought the fortuitous benefit of investment in new plant from which a flood of reprints, schoolbooks, prize books and religious books poured – all at inexpensive prices. The New Factory, capable of producing 200,000 books a week, was built at Parkside in 1907 to undertake the various Classics series. It stood in extensive grounds facing the Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. The works themselves covered about five acres of ground and the New Factory an additional acre.

Parkside was equipped with the most modern printing and bindery machinery of their day as it was the aim that every process of book production should be undertaken within the factory. Many of the machines, especially in the bindery were constructed by the Nelsons. With the new space provided at Parkside, Thomas Nelson junior was able to investigate new processes including developing a surface paper. This paper was partly made by hand, for use with half tone blacks, a technique which was nearly as innovative as his development of the rotary press

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between the City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by the City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org

Image courtesy of SAPPHIRE

A specialist centre to develop new manufacturing processes for lightweight materials for the aerospace and automotive industries is to be set up as a first step towards creating a National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland.

The First Minister announced today that the £8.9m Lightweight Manufacturing Centre, being set up in the former Doosan Babcock facility in Westway, Renfrew, will support highly skilled jobs and help place Scotland at the forefront of lightweight manufacturing.

The pulp and paper manufacturing process relies heavily on water usage. APP has implemented a range of innovative water treatment and conservation initiatives across its pulp and paper mills in Indonesia.

The company was the first in the Indonesian pulp and paper industry to introduce combined aerobic and anaerobic waste water treatment processes to generate bio-fuel. This combined waste water treatment system generates a significantly higher quality effluent than the conventional single system.

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AM–9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a “factory of the future” continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating “smart” and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nation’s “Made in China 2025” strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

100118-F-0782R-013 Kabul- A Kabul Milli factory employee cuts out boot pattern layers to begin the boot manufacturing process in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 2010. Members of NTM-A and the Afghan National Army visited the boot factory to observe the boot manufacturing process and to initiate a process improvement program..

(U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr., Released)

David Mellor Visitor Centre

David Mellor is internationally famous for his cutlery.

His chic factory in Hathersage, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, and purpose-built on the site of the old gasworks, is hailed as a minor masterpiece of modern architecture.

Built in local gritstone with a spectacular lead roof, it blends beautifully into the rural landscape. The factory is open for viewing on Sundays and visitors are welcome to take a look around and watch the various designs being made.

The manufacturing process is surprisingly low-tech and most of it done by hand – if nothing else this explains why the cutlery is so expensive (and so collectable).

In addition to the factory, there is also a stylish shop, a classy café and an interesting design museum.

David Mellor died in 2009, and his talented son Corin continues the design tradition at Hathersage.

www.davidmellordesign.com

Museum

My image shows the interesting design museum.

David Mellor Visitor Centre

David Mellor is internationally famous for his cutlery.

His chic factory in Hathersage, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, and purpose-built on the site of the old gasworks, is hailed as a minor masterpiece of modern architecture.

Built in local gritstone with a spectacular lead roof, it blends beautifully into the rural landscape. The factory is open for viewing on Sundays and visitors are welcome to take a look around and watch the various designs being made.

The manufacturing process is surprisingly low-tech and most of it done by hand – if nothing else this explains why the cutlery is so expensive (and so collectable).

In addition to the factory, there is also a stylish shop, a classy café and an interesting design museum.

David Mellor died in 2009, and his talented son Corin continues the design tradition at Hathersage.

www.davidmellordesign.com

Café

My image shows the classy café.

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Friday, December 8th, 2017

Fortune Global Forum 2017

Guangzhou, China

8:00 AM–9:20 AM

SMART MANUFACTURING AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Around the world, factory floors and assembly lines are becoming highly automated, combining human ingenuity with data and technology to revolutionize product and productivity outcomes. As the notion of a “factory of the future” continues to evolve, how are companies incorporating “smart” and connected products into their manufacturing process? From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business. Here in China, manufacturers have been asked to deliver on the nation’s “Made in China 2025” strategy and are aggressively pursuing their own strategies to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. As these changes take hold, what are the implications for those doing business in China and for supply chains worldwide? And how are companies redeploying and reeducating their workforces as traditional factory jobs become automated and the need for technically proficient talent increases?

Hosted by The City of Guangzhou

Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson Group

Till Reuter, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA

Tony Tan, Partner, Shanghai Office, McKinsey & Company

Wang Wenyin, Chairman, Amer International Group

Shoei Yamana, President and CEO, Konica Minolta

Zhang Jing, Founder and Chairman, Cedar Holdings Group

Moderator: Adam Lashinsky, Fortune

Photograph by Vivek Prakash/Fortune

John Allison is William F. Hosford Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and a National Academy of Engineering member.

His major research interest is in understanding the inter-relationships between processing, alloying, microstructure and properties in metallic materials – and in incorporating this knowledge into computational tools for use in research, education and engineering. An important part of his research is development of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) tools – and thus collaborations with other computational and experimental groups are an essential element of my work. Central to my research are investigations on the evolution of microstructures - current examples include precipitate evolution, recrystallization and grain growth and texture development in magnesium, aluminum and titanium alloys. He is also interested in mechanical behavior of these materials, with an emphasis on development of mechanistic and phenomenological understanding of the influence of microstructure on properties such as strength, ductility and fatigue resistance.

Allison comes to the University from Ford Motor Company, where he was a senior technical leader in the Research and Advanced Engineering organization. Over the twenty seven years of his tenure at Ford, he led teams developing integrated computational materials engineering, or ICME, methods. He helped develop advanced computer software that simulates manufacturing processes and predicts the influence of the manufacturing process on material properties. The output of these models is then coupled with product performance models to predict how manufactured components will behave during service.

July 11, 2023.

Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering

The first of a series of lines designed to maximize our commitment with environmental sustainability, the Rotsen Ferpas Collection uses scraps of harwood collected from our own manufacturing process, when making larger furniture items such as cocktail tables, dining tables and consoles.

The Ferpas Coffee Table has a round top made as a mosaic of salvaged wood pieces and details in polished aluminum. The metal base is made of steel and finished using a powder coating process.

A round glass top is optional. 1/2" thick suggested.

Customization options include sizes, shapes, metal base finishes, base materials.

The Ferpas Line includes coffee tables, consoles, dining tables and planters.

Rotsen Furniture creates furniture and artwork integrating wood's organic characteristics with a clean, graceful, modernist aesthetic. Each piece is individually and meticulously hand-crafted, often combining wood with metal, glass or Plexiglas resulting in pieces of exquisite craftsmanship. For custom work information and stock availability, contact our sales team at sales@rotsenfurniture.com

Scan of a panel display about Matthew Carter’s Olympian typeface as reproduced in Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter by Margaret Re.

Transcription of captions from the panel:

Olympian, a newspaper text face, was designed for both Linotype hot-metal composition and filmsetting.

On the far right are three factory proofs of Linotype fonts showing the companion Italic and Bold faces. Non-TTS versions were also made.

The existing Freeport Community Center & a historic Edward B. Mallett house has been joined by a spacious addition to provide new social services offices, thrift store, teen center, coffee bar & multi-funtion community room. Not only was there a goal to preserve history landmarks....but to obtain serious energy savings!

Hunter XCI Foil product is used in the construction of the renovation & addition of the Freeport Community Center.. XCI Foil is a high thermal, rigid building insulation composed of a closed cell polyiso foam core bonded on-line during the manufacturing process to an impermeable foil facing material. It is designed for use in commercial cavity wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.

Hunter Xci polyiso products:

- Have the highest R-Value per inch of any insulation

- NFPA 285 TEST - Passed

- Energy Star approved

- Contribute toward LEED certification credits

- HCFC, CFC, zero ODP, and negligable GWP.

Construction by: Warren Construction

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Quality inspection at every stage of the manufacturing process. SolarWorld manufacturing facility Hillsboro, Oregon.

800 yen, Overall 7.0/10

Do not order ramen ! Order tsukemen!!

This ramen above is tsukemen ramen. Simply saying, noodle and broth are served sepalately. Customers eat noodle with dipping into broth. Broth is usually more solid and straightfoward taste, because of smaller volume of broth like sauce.

The highlight of this ramen shop is home-made noodle manufactured manually by a shop staff in front of the shop kitchin. This is a performance for sales promotion. ones who walks through this shop are able to view his performance. His noodle manufacturing process is mixing water and wheat, kneading and expanding them many times and finally cutting them for boiling noodles into hot water. Customers may surprise with beating sounds when a shop staff fitfully throws down a wheat lump to long (cooking) board strongly. Noodle texture is quite chewy and each noodle is quite long! so that I felt hard to cut off noodle by using chopsticks for eating easly. I like such chewly noodle, so that I really impress every time I eat noodle in this ramen shop. But broth served from this ramen shop is not outstanding taste. So that I recommend to focus on enjoying to eat noodles, not broth.

This shop staffs are a little bit lazy. In fact, sometimes they mistakes bowls to serve with other person. Sometimes, they miss requests from customers like "Please give me another a cup of water". But, home-made noodle from this shop offsets this shop's drawback.

Address

Kaminarimon 2-7-6, Taito-ku Tokyo-to

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JCC received a grant award through the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council’s Consolidated Funding Application to offer the Machinist Training Program which features classroom and hands-on training and consists of a mixture of college credit and non-credit classes spread over 12 months. Training for the manufacturing environment includes drafting, shop math, CNC machining, teamwork, and lean manufacturing processes.

austin, texas

1977

motorola semiconductor plant

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

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picked by ethnic Tamil labor

--- 4600 feet elevation

--- each tea leaf is picked by hand rather than by mechanization

--- no artificial preservatives are added at any stage of the manufacturing process

Nuwara Eliya District

Sri Lanka --- the world's fourth largest producer of tea

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Saw this old canal bridge over a river in Coventry. Says Horseley Ironworks on it.

Vignoles Bridge

Vignoles Bridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the City of Coventry in the West Midlands of England. The bridge is a single-span iron footbridge over the River Sherbourne in the Spon End area, just to the west of Coventry city centre and 100 metres (330 ft) west-north-west of Sherbourne House (an office building in use by Coventry City Council).

Thomas Telford developed the first techniques for maximising the potential of cast iron as a construction material, realising that the lighter frames could use flatter angles and less substantial foundations than timber bridges while preserving the single span, and thus the navigability of the waterways they cross. English Heritage, which is responsible for scheduling ancient monuments in England, considers all examples of iron bridges "which retain significant original fabric" to be of importance. Vignoles Bridge is of particular interest because it "survives well and retains its original features thus demonstrating its engineering design and reflecting the manufacturing process", despite having been moved from its original site.

The bridge originally occupied a site on the Oxford Canal (which runs from Coventry to Oxford). It is cast iron and was built at Horseley Iron Works—whose name is cast into the span of the bridge on one side—in Tipton around 1835. The bridge, which was designed by Charles Vignoles (after whom it is named), was moved to its current site in 1969. The walkway is covered with tarmac and has cast iron balustrades either side, while the abutments connecting the bridge to the river bank are brick.

(En) Founded in 1906, the Coking Plant of Anderlues was specialized in the production of coke for industrial use.

Coke was obtained by distillation of coal in furnaces and, thanks to its superior fuel coal properties, it was used afterwards to feed the blast furnaces in the steel manufacturing process.

Closed and abandoned since 2002, the site has since undergone many losses and damages, not including an important pollution. While some buildings have now been demolished, there are however still some important parts of the former coking plant.

Among them, the former coal tower, next to the imposing "battery" of 38 furnaces, where the coke was produced. Besides them, we still can see the administrative buildings, the power station with its cooling tower, and buildings for the by-products, which were obtained by recovering the tar and coal gas. There are also a gasometer north side, the coal tip east side and a settling basin south side.

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(Fr) Fondées en 1906, les Cokeries d'Anderlues étaient spécialisées dans la fabrication de coke à usage industriel.

Le coke était obtenu par distillation de la houille dans des fours et, grâce à ses propriétés combustibles supérieures au charbon, il servait par après à alimenter les hauts-fourneaux dans le processus de fabrication de l'acier.

Fermé et laissé à l'abandon depuis 2002, le site a depuis lors subi de nombreuses pertes et dégradations, sans compter la pollution qui y règne. Si certains bâtiments (comme l'ancien lavoir à charbon) ont aujourd'hui été démolis, on retrouve encore toutefois certaines parties importantes de cette ancienne cokerie.

Parmi celles-ci, l'ancienne tour à charbon suivie de près par l'imposante "batterie" de 38 fours, où était produit le coke. A côté d'eux, on découvre également les bâtiments administratifs, la centrale électrique avec sa tour de refroidissement, ainsi que les bâtiments des sous-produits, lesquels étaient obtenus par récupération du goudron et du gaz de houille. Et en périphérie, on retrouve un gazomètre côté nord, le terril à l'est et un bassin de décantation côté sud.

A beautiful Prim Sport "Igen" 38 being rebuilt in the watch restoration and assembly room at Prim.

On September 26, 2008 my family and I were privileged to spend the day in the beautiful town of Nové Mesto nad Metují in the east of the Czech Republic, close to the Polish border. Our host was Mr. Jan Prokop, Marketing Director (and principal designer) at the ELTON hodinárská, a.s. - the manufacturers of fine bespoke Prim wristwatches.

Mr. Prokop collected us from our hotel in Prague, drove us to Nové Mesto nad Metují and back (a round trip of three hours), presented their current product range, guided us through their interesting museum, and led us on a tour of the full manufacturing operation at Prim. This was a fantastic opportunity, and we got to see everything from the manufacturing of cases, dials, hesatite crystals and hands through to the final assembly process. We also saw great examples of their bespoke manufacturing capability as well as their top class restoration service. Mr Prokop ended a fine day with a meal and good local beer in a restaurant on the old town square.

Six weeks after our visit I sent my prized Prim Sport "Igen" 38 (produced in the 60's and early-70's) to ELTON where it is currently being restored and modernised to my specification, as well as being personalised. I can't wait to get it back - my first bespoke wristwatch and an heirloom to pass on to my son!

Although obviously sensitive about certain parts of their operation, Mr. Prokop graciously allowed me to take many photographs during our visit, and here they are for your viewing pleasure. As you will see, these are truly hand-made watches that combine both leading edge design and manufacturing processes and age-old processes and technologies. It is this progressive traditionalism and craftsmanship that gives these unique timepieces their individual character...and I love them!

during the manufacturing process of tsipouro

Katoen, borduursel / Cotton, embroidery

Hella Jongerius (1963) geldt internationaal als een van de belangrijkste ontwerpers van haar generatie. In 1993 start zij in Rotterdam haar studio Jongeriuslab, waar zij zowel in eigen beheer als in opdracht van nationale en internationale bedrijven producten ontwerpt. Jongerius introduceert in de jaren negentig ambachtelijke imperfecties en individualiteit in industriële productiemethodes. Ambachtelijke kwaliteiten zijn volgens Jongerius niet afleesbaar aan de perfectie waarmee dingen zijn gemaakt, maar aan de afwijkingen, ‘misfits’, de zichtbare sporen van de hand van de maker.

Hella Jongerius (1963) is internationally regarded as one of the most important designers of her generation. She began her own studio Jongeriuslab in Rotterdam in 1993, designing products for international clients and also self-initiated projects. In the 1990s she introduced imperfections and individuality into the industrial manufacturing process. Jongerius believes that the quality of craftsmanship is not legible in perfect products but only in the ‘misfits’ that betray the process and the hand of the maker.

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, a region sometimes called the "American Heartland". Iowa is bordered by the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River and the Big Sioux River on the west; it is the only U.S. state whose eastern and western borders are formed entirely by rivers. Iowa is bordered by Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Minnesota to the north.

In colonial times, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana; its current state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, settlers laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy made the transition to a diversified economy of advanced manufacturing, processing, financial services, information technology, biotechnology, and green energy production. Iowa is the 26th most extensive in land area and the 30th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Des Moines. Iowa has been listed as one of the safest states in which to live.

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EXHIBITION

100 Best Posters 14

GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND

MI, MO 11/11/2015, 03/28/2016

MAK Art Print Hall

Already for the tenth time, the MAK in the exhibition 100 Best Posters 14. Germany Austria Switzerland shows the hundred most compelling design concepts in the probably hottest medium of visual everyday culture: the poster. The current winning projects of the popular graphic design competition are characterized by an enigmatic pictural humor, explosive colors as well as precise designs and demonstrate impressively that a poster can be more than just an banal advertising space. Many of the award-winning works furthermore also rely on a subtle play with typography. Innovative ideas can also be found in the manufacturing process: This year's competition shows that you can readily knit posters in high-tech process or use a thermo-insulating space blanket as carrier material for screen printing.

Hardly any medium is such clocked on the consumption and nevertheless sets trends at the cutting edge. "[...] The poster designer challenges himself repeatedly and enjoys himself at gained symbols." Says Götz Gramlich, President of the association 100 Best Posters eV, and he postulats. "A good poster unfolds in the mind of the beholder."

From over 1 800 submitted individual posters, composed of contract work, self-initiated posters/self-promotion as well as student project orders from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, awarded the international jury, consisting of Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, Chairman), Christof Nardin (Wien), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin) and Ariane Spanier (Berlin), the 100 winning posters of the year 2014.

In the competition participated 575 submitters (men and women), of which 48 are from Austria, 128 from Switzerland and 399 from Germany. The leader among the winning 100 best is Switzerland with 51 winning projects, followed by 44 German and 5 Austrian contributions.

The by sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig and Florian Koch, Vienna) designed catalog offers in addition to the illustrations of all the winning posters and the contacts with the designers also this year a captivating essay by Thomas Friedrich: On the dialectics of image and text in the poster today. In a concise way, he looks at the contextuality of posters and explains the theme facetiously and pictorially based on a poster for a bullfight. Read more in the catalog!

For the corporate design of this year's competition and the new Web Visuals also sensomatic design, Vienna, is responsible. Since June 2014, the new online archive on the homepage of the 100 Best Posters Registered Association offers a comprehensive overview of all award-winning works from the years 2001-2014.

The exhibition takes place in cooperation with 100 Best Posters e. V.

100-beste-plakate.de

Curator Peter Klinger, Deputy Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

AUSSTELLUNG

100 Beste Plakate 14

DEUTSCHLAND ÖSTERREICH SCHWEIZ

MI, 11.11.2015–MO, 28.03.2016

MAK-KUNSTBLÄTTERSAAL

Bereits zum zehnten Mal zeigt das MAK in der Ausstellung 100 BESTE PLAKATE 14. Deutschland Österreich Schweiz die einhundert überzeugendsten Gestaltungskonzepte im wohl heißesten Medium der visuellen Alltagskultur: dem Plakat. Die aktuellen Siegerprojekte des beliebten Grafikdesignwettbewerbs bestechen mit hintergründigem Bildwitz, explosiver Farbgebung sowie exakten Ausführungen und demonstrieren eindrücklich, dass ein Plakat mehr als nur banale Werbefläche sein kann. Viele der prämierten Arbeiten setzen außerdem auf ein subtiles Spiel mit Typografie. Innovative Ideen finden sich auch im Herstellungsprozess: Der diesjährige Wettbewerb zeigt, dass man Plakate ohne Weiteres im Hightech-Verfahren stricken oder eine thermo-isolierende Rettungsdecke als Trägermaterial für einen Siebdruck verwenden kann.

Kaum ein Medium ist derart auf den Verbrauch hin getaktet und setzt dennoch Trends am Puls der Zeit. „[…] der Plakatgestalter fordert sich immer wieder selbst heraus und erfreut sich an gewonnenen Sinnbildern.“ so Götz Gramlich, Präsident des Vereins 100 Beste Plakate e. V., und er postuliert: „Ein gutes Plakat entfaltet sich im Kopf des Betrachters.“

Aus über 1 800 eingereichten Einzelplakaten, zusammengesetzt aus Auftragsarbeiten, selbst initiierten Plakaten/Eigenwerbungen sowie studentischen Projektaufträgen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, prämierte die international besetzte Fachjury, bestehend aus Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, Vorsitz), Christof Nardin (Wien), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin) und Ariane Spanier (Berlin), die 100 Siegerplakate des Jahres 2014.

Am Wettbewerb hatten sich 575 EinreicherInnen beteiligt, davon 48 aus Österreich, 128 aus der Schweiz und 399 aus Deutschland. Spitzenreiter unter den prämierten 100 Besten ist die Schweiz mit 51 Siegerprojekten, gefolgt von 44 deutschen und 5 österreichischen Beiträgen.

Der von sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig und Florian Koch, Wien) gestaltete Katalog bietet neben den Abbildungen aller Siegerplakate und den Kontakten zu den GestalterInnen auch dieses Jahr einen bestechenden Aufsatz von Thomas Friedrich: Zur Dialektik von Bild und Text im Plakat heute. In pointierter Form geht er auf die Kontextualität von Plakaten ein und erklärt das Thema witzig und bildhaft anhand eines Plakats für einen Stierkampf. Mehr dazu im Katalog!

Für das Corporate Design des diesjährigen Wettbewerbs und die neuen Web-Visuals zeichnet ebenfalls sensomatic design, Wien, verantwortlich. Seit Juni 2014 bietet das neue Online-Archiv auf der Homepage der 100 Beste Plakate e. V. einen umfassenden Überblick aller prämierten Arbeiten aus den Jahren 2001 bis 2014.

Die Ausstellung findet in Kooperation mit 100 Beste Plakate e. V. statt.

100-beste-plakate.de

Kurator: Peter Klinger, Stellvertretende Leitung MAK-Bibliothek und Kunstblättersammlung

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Nao Victoria replica at the Ice Factory

On the top floor of the old Ice Factory, now the Doñana Visitor Center, there is a scale replica of the Nao Victoria, one of the five ships that set off in search of the spice route from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 20, 1519, being the only one that returned to the same port of Sanlúcar, on September 6, 1522, thus completing the First Circumnavegation of the World three years after his departure.

The link between Sanlúcar, Seville, Portugal and the Basque Country is latent in the representation of the Nao Victoria, since its name comes from the church of Santa María de la Victoria in Triana, where Magellan, captain of the expedition, swore to serve the King Carlos I. In addition, the Guadalquivir river would make Sanlúcar the protagonist in this feat, as it is the umbilical cord between this port and that of Seville, with Sanlúcar having a fundamental role in the Journey, since it is here where the expedition of spices was born and ended .

Likewise, tradition tells that the ship was built in the shipyards of Zarauz, in the Basque Country, being the Basque Country the place of origin of Juan Sebastián Elcano, who would be the commander who finished the expedition when Magellan died in April 1521, in the island of Mactan, just before reaching the Moluccas islands, where the long-awaited spices were found.

As for this replica of the Nao Victoria, it is a 1:8 scale model of the original. On the exhibition base, barrels, pipes, bales, and boxes are represented in which the supplies and provisions, water, food and other elements for the journey were carried.

Without a doubt, the Doñana Visitor Center, the Ice Factory, is a place of interest to learn about the History and Culture that surrounds the surroundings of Doñana and the Guadalquivir river.

The Ice Factory is a modernist style building built in 1944, under the name of Marqués de Valterra. It is located on Avenida Bajo de Guía in Sanlúcar

This supplied ice to the fishing boats in Sanlúcar and remained in operation in its original role until 1978, after having overcome a serious explosion caused by the gases used in the manufacturing process. It is decorated with tiles from Triana (Seville).

In the year 2000 it was converted into the Visitor Center of the Doñana National Park

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EXHIBITION

100 Best Posters 14

GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND

MI, MO 11/11/2015, 03/28/2016

MAK Art Print Hall

Already for the tenth time, the MAK in the exhibition 100 Best Posters 14. Germany Austria Switzerland shows the hundred most compelling design concepts in the probably hottest medium of visual everyday culture: the poster. The current winning projects of the popular graphic design competition are characterized by an enigmatic pictural humor, explosive colors as well as precise designs and demonstrate impressively that a poster can be more than just an banal advertising space. Many of the award-winning works furthermore also rely on a subtle play with typography. Innovative ideas can also be found in the manufacturing process: This year's competition shows that you can readily knit posters in high-tech process or use a thermo-insulating space blanket as carrier material for screen printing.

Hardly any medium is such clocked on the consumption and nevertheless sets trends at the cutting edge. "[...] The poster designer challenges himself repeatedly and enjoys himself at gained symbols." Says Götz Gramlich, President of the association 100 Best Posters eV, and he postulats. "A good poster unfolds in the mind of the beholder."

From over 1 800 submitted individual posters, composed of contract work, self-initiated posters/self-promotion as well as student project orders from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, awarded the international jury, consisting of Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, Chairman), Christof Nardin (Wien), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin) and Ariane Spanier (Berlin), the 100 winning posters of the year 2014.

In the competition participated 575 submitters (men and women), of which 48 are from Austria, 128 from Switzerland and 399 from Germany. The leader among the winning 100 best is Switzerland with 51 winning projects, followed by 44 German and 5 Austrian contributions.

The by sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig and Florian Koch, Vienna) designed catalog offers in addition to the illustrations of all the winning posters and the contacts with the designers also this year a captivating essay by Thomas Friedrich: On the dialectics of image and text in the poster today. In a concise way, he looks at the contextuality of posters and explains the theme facetiously and pictorially based on a poster for a bullfight. Read more in the catalog!

For the corporate design of this year's competition and the new Web Visuals also sensomatic design, Vienna, is responsible. Since June 2014, the new online archive on the homepage of the 100 Best Posters Registered Association offers a comprehensive overview of all award-winning works from the years 2001-2014.

The exhibition takes place in cooperation with 100 Best Posters e. V.

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Curator Peter Klinger, Deputy Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

AUSSTELLUNG

100 Beste Plakate 14

DEUTSCHLAND ÖSTERREICH SCHWEIZ

MI, 11.11.2015–MO, 28.03.2016

MAK-KUNSTBLÄTTERSAAL

Bereits zum zehnten Mal zeigt das MAK in der Ausstellung 100 BESTE PLAKATE 14. Deutschland Österreich Schweiz die einhundert überzeugendsten Gestaltungskonzepte im wohl heißesten Medium der visuellen Alltagskultur: dem Plakat. Die aktuellen Siegerprojekte des beliebten Grafikdesignwettbewerbs bestechen mit hintergründigem Bildwitz, explosiver Farbgebung sowie exakten Ausführungen und demonstrieren eindrücklich, dass ein Plakat mehr als nur banale Werbefläche sein kann. Viele der prämierten Arbeiten setzen außerdem auf ein subtiles Spiel mit Typografie. Innovative Ideen finden sich auch im Herstellungsprozess: Der diesjährige Wettbewerb zeigt, dass man Plakate ohne Weiteres im Hightech-Verfahren stricken oder eine thermo-isolierende Rettungsdecke als Trägermaterial für einen Siebdruck verwenden kann.

Kaum ein Medium ist derart auf den Verbrauch hin getaktet und setzt dennoch Trends am Puls der Zeit. „[…] der Plakatgestalter fordert sich immer wieder selbst heraus und erfreut sich an gewonnenen Sinnbildern.“ so Götz Gramlich, Präsident des Vereins 100 Beste Plakate e. V., und er postuliert: „Ein gutes Plakat entfaltet sich im Kopf des Betrachters.“

Aus über 1 800 eingereichten Einzelplakaten, zusammengesetzt aus Auftragsarbeiten, selbst initiierten Plakaten/Eigenwerbungen sowie studentischen Projektaufträgen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, prämierte die international besetzte Fachjury, bestehend aus Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, Vorsitz), Christof Nardin (Wien), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin) und Ariane Spanier (Berlin), die 100 Siegerplakate des Jahres 2014.

Am Wettbewerb hatten sich 575 EinreicherInnen beteiligt, davon 48 aus Österreich, 128 aus der Schweiz und 399 aus Deutschland. Spitzenreiter unter den prämierten 100 Besten ist die Schweiz mit 51 Siegerprojekten, gefolgt von 44 deutschen und 5 österreichischen Beiträgen.

Der von sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig und Florian Koch, Wien) gestaltete Katalog bietet neben den Abbildungen aller Siegerplakate und den Kontakten zu den GestalterInnen auch dieses Jahr einen bestechenden Aufsatz von Thomas Friedrich: Zur Dialektik von Bild und Text im Plakat heute. In pointierter Form geht er auf die Kontextualität von Plakaten ein und erklärt das Thema witzig und bildhaft anhand eines Plakats für einen Stierkampf. Mehr dazu im Katalog!

Für das Corporate Design des diesjährigen Wettbewerbs und die neuen Web-Visuals zeichnet ebenfalls sensomatic design, Wien, verantwortlich. Seit Juni 2014 bietet das neue Online-Archiv auf der Homepage der 100 Beste Plakate e. V. einen umfassenden Überblick aller prämierten Arbeiten aus den Jahren 2001 bis 2014.

Die Ausstellung findet in Kooperation mit 100 Beste Plakate e. V. statt.

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Kurator: Peter Klinger, Stellvertretende Leitung MAK-Bibliothek und Kunstblättersammlung

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“VITA GLASS FOR SCHOLARS. The photograph shows the extension which has been built to the Greenfield's Roman Catholic Orphanage at Billinge. There were some 100 scholars at the Orphanage and the extension is designed to catch the sun's rays, vita glass having been put into the window frames.”

Vita-Glass was invented by Francis Everard Lamplough in 1925. Minimising the amount of iron introduced during the manufacturing process enabled more ultraviolet light to pass through the finished product; a property which appealed in particular to Sir Henry Gauvain and other advocates of the various “sunlight therapies” then in vogue.

The first practical application of Vita-Glass was at London Zoo. According to a special “Sunlight and Health” supplement published by The Times

“Dr. [Sir Peter Chalmers] Mitchell, on behalf of the Zoological Society, commissioned the inventor of “Vita” glass to make a sufficient quantity to glaze the experimental house. The usual difficulties in the change from laboratory to manufacturing scale arose, but were surmounted, and the Zoo's experimental house was the first building to be provided with “Vita" glass. Spectroscopic examination showed the transparence of the new material to ultra-violet rays, and the effect on the animals was so good that the Lion House and the new Reptile House, and, later, the full-size new Monkey House, were all lighted with “Vita” glass with complete success in every case, as shown by the better health and better spirits of the animals”.

In 1928 the UK manufacturing rights and control of the Vita-Glass trademark were sub-licensed by Pilkington Brothers of St Helens. An extensive marketing campaign encouraged householders and the owners of public buildings, schools and factories to “bring outdoor health indoors” and so “save the money you now spend on expensive patent medicines and special foods”. Despite this Vita-Glass was not commercially successful, and production at St Helens was discontinued after WWII.

An episode in Enid Blyton's “The Twins At St Clare's” (Methuen, 1941) may give a clue to why the large Vita-Glass windows at what is now Nugent House School have not survived:

“They came into their classroom, chattering as usual -- and saw that one big pane of the middle window was completely broken! Miss Roberts was at her desk, looking stern...

"Who did it?" said Pat.

"I don't know," answered Miss Roberts. "But this is what broke the window." She held up a

hard rubber lacrosse ball... "I am sorry to say that no one has owned up," she said. "So I have had to report the matter to Miss Theobald. She agrees with me that the window must be paid for by the whole class, as the culprit hasn't owned up. The window is made of vita-glass, and will cost twenty shillings to mend. Miss Theobald has decided instead of letting you go to the circus, which would cost one shilling each, she will use the money for the window."

There was a gasp of dismay from all the girls. Not go to the circus! That was a terrible blow...”

The Wigan Observer photograph is credited “H Parkes”. The advertisement (right) is from The Architectural Review, January 1935.

Photo of an Intel 40486 microprocessor circuit on a silicon wafer, part way through the manufacturing process.