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The RNLD02SM series’ pliable design conforms to most applications. It offers better night visibility with perimeter or border lighting for store fronts, strip malls, restaurants, and commercial and office buildings. They are also ideal for escalator and elevator lighting, signage letters, and accent lighting for staircases, pathways, cabinets, counters, landscaping, and more.
Some of the disadvantages of the outdated neon lights are heat, buzzing, flickering, UV radiation, RF interference, and ballast failures. Even worse issues are hazards such as shards of glass and toxic mercury vapor from broken tubes. Not only do the LED rope lights eliminate all of those shortcomings, but they also reduce power usage by up to 50 percent with their low power consumption of only 9.6 watts per meter.
Likewise, in the U.S. the market for packaging machinery accounted for $20 billion in 2018 with a higher stake for domestic manufacturers. Manufacturers in processed food and beverages represent almost 60 percent of the market whereas pharmaceutical vendors accounted for more than 10 percent. Other end-user segments such as agriculture, household industrial chemicals, and personal care products exert a high influence over the packaging industry. At present, manufacturers face a challenge of intense competition in various sectors all across the globe.
The market is highly driven by increase in consumerism across the world. Technical competence to cater to the packaging of items is gaining higher grounds. Growth in e-commerce transactions have resulted development of efficient machines. Use of automation for packaging of items plays an important role in ascertaining product safety. Innovative packaging techniques in the food sector such as edible packaging, micro packaging, smart packaging, anti-microbial packaging and water soluble packaging is likely to gain traction during the forecast period.
On the other hand, a high irregularity exists in the market pertaining to manual and robotic packaging. For instance, organizations that are used to manual packaging may experience glitches after implementing automated packaging machines at their units hence lack of awareness is a major restraining factor. In addition, the high cost of maintenance for these machines is more likely to hinder the market growth in the forecast period.
Amazon has considered installing two machines at dozens more warehouses, removing at least 24 roles at each one, these people said. These facilities typically employ more than 2,000 people.
That would amount to more than 1,300 cuts across 55 U.S. fulfillment centers for standard-sized inventory. Amazon would expect to recover the costs in under two years, at $1 million per machine plus operational expenses, they said.
The plan, previously unreported, shows how Amazon is pushing to reduce labor and boost profits as automation of the most common warehouse task – picking up an item – is still beyond its reach. The changes are not finalized because vetting technology before a major deployment can take a long time.
Amazon is famous for its drive to automate as many parts of its business as possible, whether pricing goods or transporting items in its warehouses. But the company is in a precarious position as it considers replacing jobs that have won it subsidies and public goodwill.
“We are piloting this new technology with the goal of increasing safety, speeding up delivery times and adding efficiency across our network,” an Amazon spokeswoman said in a statement. “We expect the efficiency savings will be re-invested in new services for customers, where new jobs will continue to be created.”
(Dave Clark is Amazon’s senior vice president of worldwide operations)
Amazon last month downplayed its automation efforts to press visiting its Baltimore fulfillment center, saying a fully robotic future was far off. Its employee base has grown to become one of the largest in the United States, as the company opened new warehouses and raised wages to attract staff in a tight labor market.
A key to its goal of a leaner workforce is attrition, one of the sources said. Rather than lay off workers, the person said, the world’s largest online retailer will one day refrain from refilling packing roles. Those have high turnover because boxing multiple orders per minute over 10 hours is taxing work. At the same time, employees that stay with the company can be trained to take up more technical roles.
What items can be packed by automatic packaging machines?
The hygiene standards imposed by national and international regulations make it necessary to preserve products efficiently. It’s important to rely on packaging machines designed to pack a wide range of products. Those proposed by Zambelli, for example, allow to package various types of products, including:
Food (ice cream, milk & dairy, spices, sauces and jams, pet food, baby food, edible oil, canned food)
Beverage (water, coffee, juice, energy drink, soft drink, spirits)
Home care (napkins, wet wipes, detergent powder and liquid)
Industrial material (for the welding industry, lube oil)
The complementary functions of packaging machines
In an increasingly competitive market, it’s necessary to have integrated systems that are able to perform a greater number of activities than just packaging. In order to make the entire production chain more efficient it will be useful to integrate in your company packaging machines equipped with additional functions, useful to create packaging tailored to every need. Zambelli, thanks to the constant development of new technologies, is able to integrate to its machines, for example, robotized Pick & Place for the insertion of gadgets.
One of the biggest upcoming challenges for electric cars is having an adequate supply of lithium batteries.A new report by Benchmark Minerals, first cited by CleanTechnica, shows battery makers are working quickly to meet growing demand for new lithium-ion battery cells from automakers.solar street light lithium battery
According to the company's Battery Factory Data, battery suppliers ramped up their forecast supply from 922 gigawatt-hours in 2023 to 965 in February, an increase of 4 percent in February alone. Extrapolated to an annualized forecast, that would increase battery supplies available in that year by 50 percent this year alone.It's unclear, of course, whether growth in supply forecasts will continue soaring on that trajectory for the rest of the year, but constraints in battery supplies have already emerged as a likely obstacle to planned electric-car production by the middle of the next decade.
The Volkswagen Group alone has ramped up its investment in developing future electric cars to $50 billion by 2023. Other automakers including BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler.So far, most electric car batteries have come from just a handful of suppliers, including Korean LG Chem, Nissan's SAIC, CATL, Panasonic (for Teslas), Samsung, and SK Innovation.
That has left some automakers planning big investments in electric cars at the mercy of battery suppliers and led to delays in some products and likely to lower production of some models than the automakers could sell.
The Benchmark Minerals report shows production capacity for lithium-ion battery growing to almost 1.6 terawatt-hours by 2028.
I’m not sure how we missed it, but in May, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery received the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal.
Professor John Goodenough from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin received the medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize. Already a fellow of the Royal Society, Goodenough was honored for his exceptional contributions to materials science, especially his discoveries that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium battery. In case you’ve been living under a rock, lithium-ion batteries are a big part of the re-emergence of electric vehicles, improvement of grid storage, and the compact size of smartphones — all things that have made immeasurable impacts and will continue to.Lithium Battery Cell voltage
Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said, “Professor Goodenough has a rich legacy of contributions to materials science in both a fundamental capacity, with his defining work on the properties of magnetism, to a widely applicable one, with his ever-advancing work on batteries, including those powering the smartphone in your very pocket. The Royal Society is delighted to recognise his achievements with the Copley Medal, our most prestigious prize.”
Over decades, the professor has worked on a variety of projects that have had big impacts, including work that led to the invention of Random Access Memory, or RAM, an critical component in modern computing. Professor Goodenough continues to work on new battery technology at UT Austin. Though his lithium-ion breakthrough provided a reliable, rechargeable battery, there are still shortcomings that Professor Goodenough aims to overcome with his latest work on solid-state batteries.The Copley Medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize. As the latest recipient of the Royal Society’s premier award, Professor Goodenough joins an elite group of men and women, such as Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, and Dorothy Hodgkin, who have been awarded the Copley Medal for their exceptional contributions to science and engineering in the past. In recent years, recipients include eminent scientists such as Peter Higgs, the physicist who hypothesized the existence of the Higgs Boson, as well as DNA fingerprinting pioneer Alec Jeffreys, and Andre Geim, who discovered graphene. Last year’s winner, Professor Jeffrey Gordon, was honored for his contributions to understanding the role of gut microbial communities to human health and disease.
The security industry is fast growing and it is necessary to be informed about new door security trends and developments. The reason for that is that products change very quickly and new technology is developed frequently. Magazines and blogs can be helpful to to find all necessary information to keep up to date.
The following magazines and blogs will keep you informed about new product launches and innovations in the security and facility industry.
Video It's never easy to crack into a market with an innovative new product but makers of the "world's first smart fingerprint padlock" have made one critical error: they forgot about the existence of screwdrivers.Electric Cabinet Lock manufacturers
Tapplock raised $320,000 in 2016 for their product that would allow you to use just your finger to open the "unbreakable" lock. Amazing. Things took a turn for the worse when the ship date of September came and went, and backers complained that the upstart has stopped posting any updates and wasn't responding to emails nor social media posts.
But after months of silence, the startup assured El Reg that everything was still moving forward and the delays were due to "issues with manufacturing in China."
Fast forward 18 months and finally – finally – the $100 Tapplock is out on the market and it is… well, how do we put this kindly? Somewhat flawed.
No less than three major problems with the lock have been discovered that make it less than useless because presumably people intend to use the lock to secure valuable things.
One of the first things to note is that the Tapplock used zinc aluminum alloy Zamak 3: something that it claims lends the lock "unbreakable durability." Unfortunately, as materials engineers are happy to point out, aluminum may be a lovely lightweight metal and this alloy does provide an enviable degree of detail when die cast, but it is not exactly the best choice for something that is supposed to be unbreakable.
It isn't very strong, it melts at high temperatures, and it is quite brittle. It looks cool. But it's more suited for its more common use: door handles. It will be easy to cut through this lock with bolt cutters.
Smart locks are a popular addition to many modern homes. Some locks
can be controlled with Bluetooth connectivity, some with keypads, some
with remote controls, and some with all three.
Although this
electronic touchpad keyless entry door lock from MiLocks arrived in a
plain shipping box, it includes everything needed—except for the
installation tools—for adding this lock to your door.electromagnetic lock manufacturers
MiLocks apparently saves money by not adding glamour to their plain shipping boxes, which is perfectly acceptable if you ask me.
The electronics contained inside the external door lock are rather simple; all that's included is a keypad with some LEDs and a cable. The door lock, itself, the metal plate, and the metal enclosures are all impressively sturdy, but one should expect no less given their purpose in life.
Removing the keypad from the door lock was quite simple. Only a few strips of double-sided tape secures the keypad in place.Separating the membrane keypad from the PCB (and its pushbuttons) was a matter of merely unpeeling the keypad from the PCB. The figure below shows the thirteen pushbuttons. The eight LEDs have also been called out.
The pushbuttons, by the way, are not soldered to the PCB but are simply held in place by the membrane keypad, itself.This is the normal design approach when using such snap doom tactile switches, like these (PDF).
The remaining electronics—including the "brains" of this smart door lock—reside inside the in-the-house portion of this door lock assembly. The four AA batteries are easily accessible by sliding the battery cover out of the way. Also located underneath the battery cover are the controls (pushbuttons and switches) for programming the door lock.
With the metal plate removed, we can see the gears, the DC motor, wires, switches, and of course the PCBs. And with all the electronics removed from the door lock enclosure, we can see how simple of a design this electronic touchpad entry system really is.
The smarts of this electronic touchpad keyless entry system consists of only two PCBs, one of which includes the Bluetooth circuitry that uses an apparent OTS (off the shelf) module. The other PCB provides a home for the brains (the microcontroller), the FETs (which are used for dictating the direction of the current flow and, thus, the direction of the motor), and the buzzer.
A mix of testosterone and olive oil known as “the oil” was in use in elite cycling from 1998 to 2007, the US Anti-Doping Association (USADA) claims.
Testosterone is an anabolic agent that can increase muscle mass and strength. It is also used in small doses to promote muscle recovery from strenuous exercise and increase endurance.Oxiracetam
But what was the olive oil for?
USADA documents explain that the form of the steroid in “the oil” was Andriol, which consists of testosterone undecanoate and is designed to be mixed with oil and taken orally.
“This way the drug can be absorbed into the lymphatic system without being transported to the liver, making the drug more effective and reducing the prospect of liver damage” they say.
When asked to speculate on why olive oil was used instead of other edible oils, a person close to the investigation told Olive Oil Times a possible reason is it “helped athletes avoid rousing suspicions from authorities should their apartments, cars, or hotel rooms be searched.”
“Because it can easily be concealed in bottles labeled as typical olive oil and with the same color and taste, even if Andriol is dissolved within” the source said.
“The oil” is mentioned in various parts of a huge dossier recently released by USADA and containing its evidence for its sanction of lifetime ineligibility and disqualification against cyclist Lance Armstrong, who maintains his innocence.
Among the references is that of cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who reported that the olive oil-testosterone mixture “was to be squirted under the tongue to get a recovery boost after races.”
Olive extracts and exercise recovery
There is no reference to any of olive oil’s many proven health benefits being cited as a reason for its use, but the hydroxytyrosol in olive oil is nevertheless said to promote muscle health.
According to a patent application from Dutch inventors, it can help protect muscles during exercise, promote recovery from injuries, and relieve muscle soreness.
“The olive extracts can decrease the accumulation of lactic acid present post-exercise, and can also work by maintaining glutathione levels” they say.