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Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:03:46 PDT

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The novel aspect is that it's about everyday life in a time of great historical import." - Bruno Heller

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

"One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued." - Benjamin Franklin

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them." - Rodney Dangerfield

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E430 and E530 go on sale, starting at $459

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:34:50 PDT

Lenovo announced a slew of notebooks back at CES in January, so you'll be forgiven if the ThinkPad Edge E430 and E530 don't ring a bell. Those names are about to hit closer to home, though, because both models are finally on sale in the US and Asia with a base price of $459. To jog your memory, the 14-inch Edge E430 and 15-inch E530 run Intel Core i3-2350M Sandy Bridge CPUs clocked at 2.3GHz and feature 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drives, Intel HD Graphics and a 1366 x 768 displays. Of course, Lenovo lets you customize the processor, storage space and more on its website. Click through to the source links below for the full configuration options.

Just In Time Manufacturing : Seminar Topics, Reports and PPT

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:29:36 PDT

Just In Time Manufacturing : Seminar Topics, Reports and PPT

Laddle

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:32:55 PST

http://g4genious.blogspot.com/2012/01/hydraulic-pipe-bender.html

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:21:57 PST

BMW Z4 sDrive35is full road test car review - BBC Top Gear - BBC Top Gear

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:35:40 PST

BMW Z4 sDrive35is full road test car review - BBC Top Gear - BBC Top Gear

Aston Martin One-77

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:23:40 PST

The rare Aston Martin One-77 made its first appearance at the lovely Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in North America. This supercar is also constructed to have a stunning exterior design and to deliver a powerful performance just like any other Aston Martin cars. This Aston Martin model is made with a combination of the advanced technology to capture the eyes of the prospective buyers. The production of Aston Martin One-77 is only limited because it is expected that few can afford this expensive car.

PRICE:£1,200,000 ($1.7 million).

PERFORMANCE:

You will find a 7.3 liter V12 engine under the hood of an Aston Martin One-77. This huge motor powers the car and gives an output power of 750hp and generate a maximum torque of 533 lb ft. The top speed that this car can reach is 220mph and can accelerate from rest to a speed of 60mph in 3.5 seconds. The transmission used in this supercar is the same to that of the strong transmission of DB9

2012 SSC Tuatara

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:03:24 PST

2012 awaits the entry of the newest offering from Shelby Super Cars (SSC), the 2012 SSC Tuatara. This car is aimed to unseating the Bugatti Veyron SS as the fastest car in the world. Jerod Shelby, founder and CEO of SSC, unveiled the Tuatara in the presence of a few people from the industry. Jerod Shelby is not related to Carroll Shelby, the legend behind all those muscle cars. The name of this supercar is derived from the Maori language that describes a resident reptile from New Zealand, Tuatara, means “peaks at the back.”

Shelby and his team of 16 engineers have put their skills together to produce a high performance production vehicle in the SSC Tuatara by highlighting this rear wheel drive, 1,350 horsepower speedster. SSC produced the Ultimate Aero that was able to topple the record established by the Bugatti Veyron. In 2007, the Ultimate Aero TT had a run of 256 mph on a four mile stretch of a Texas carriageway. The Volkswagen owned Bugatti, not to be denied, came back with the Veyron SS (Super Sport) and clocked a record 267 mph.

With the Tuatara, Shelby SuperCars intends to reclaim that distinction of being the fastest car in the world, by aiming for a record setting 275 mph.

2012 Wheelsandmore Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Epochal

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:56:24 PST

"Maximum powered vehicle", that's the most apt description for the latest SLR McLaren 722. This rare edition is combined with all the up-to-date and finest upgrades which allows it to run like no other. It's all thanks to the whole Wheelsandmore team who's responsible for all the modifications which make the SLR even better than ever.

The sports car originally came with a 650 horsepower and a torque of 820 Nm which was did not make many clients happy. However, the McLaren 722 is now pumped up to a higher level with a newly customized V8 engine that produces 727 hp and a torque of 701 lb-ft. How's that possible?

Well, it all comes down to the newly designed exhaust system that has sports catalysts, as well as flaps that can be engaged by remote control; which are all easily adapted greatly by the V8 engine's pulley and recently mapped ecu software.

However, these modifications require a specialized suspension for the model. Due to that, the Wheelsandmore team decided to contact KW, their coil specialists in order to have a new suspension built which features a rebound adjustable contraption, and better compression which is highly compatible with the McLaren Mercedes-Benz SLR 722.

Bugatti

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:09:39 PST

The Bugatti Company is a producer of high quality vehicles. It was founded by Ettore Bugatti, who is as Italian refugee depicted as an odd genius in Molsheim, France. The original corporation is celebrated for manufacturing a number of the most elite automobiles in the world, as well as a numbers of the quickest.

Bugatti’s original brand name did not succeed with the coming of the Second World War, like a lot of high-end marques at the time. Another contributing factor is the death of Ettore Bugatti’s sone, Jean. The business struggled monetarily, and launched one final model in the 50s, prior to being bought eventually for its aircraft parts trade in the 60s. At present, the name is possessed by the Volkswagen Group, who has restored it as an engineer of limited manufacture elite sports cars.

The cars of Bugatti were as much considered as works of art as they were naturally mechanical productions.

Alfa Romeo

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:08:11 PST

The Alfa Romeo Automobile Company is an Italian auto producer which was launched in Milan on the 24th of June 1910. Alfa Romeo Company has been part of a team called Fiat Group since year 1986. The corporation was held by Instituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, an Italian state holding corporation, between the later parts of 1932 until 1986. The corporation was initially known as Lombard Automobile Factory, Public Corporation.

A lot of well-known automobile design headquarters located in Italy have allowed commissions to make concepts and manufacture vehicle forms for Alfa Romeo. An assortment of these would be the following:

• Centro Stile Alfa Romeo
• Zagato
• Pininfarina
• Italdesign / Giorgetto Giugiaro
• Bertone

The first that is mentioned, which is the Centro Stile, has quickly attained international reliability because of its work. The MiTo hatchback and the 8C Competizione super coupe are the outcome of the Centro Stile’s work

Audi

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:40:10 PST

The Audi AG Company is a German production firm of cars traded under the brand of Audi. The corporation is based in Ingolstadt, Germany. Since the year 1964, Audi has been an entirely owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG or also the Volkswagen Group. The Volkswagen Group commenced the Audi brand once again through the 1965 entrance of the line of Audi 60. Soon after that, the name was obtained as a part of the purchase of Auto Union assets by Volkswagen from Daimler-Benz, the past owner.

The company’s name is derived from the family name of the originator August Horch, whose name itself is an English equivalent of the English word which is ‘hark’. Hark means listen, and when you translate then into Latin, it becomes Audi.

The Audi Company manufactures 100% electrified automobiles in order to avoid corrosion, which made them the first mass market car to do so.

Aston Martin

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:38:25 PST

The Aston Martin Company is a British production business of luxurious sports cars. It is founded in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company’s name originated from one of the corporation’s founders’ names, which is Lionel Martin, and also from Aston Hill speed hill climb that is in Buckinghamshire near Aston Clinton.

From the years 1994 to 2007, Aston Martin was considered part of Ford Motor Company. It became a part of the corporation’s Premier Automotive Group in the year 2000. On the 12th of March 2007, Aston Martin was bought by a multiparty venture corporation, which is co-owned by John Sinders and Investment Dar and Adeem Investment of Kuwait, for £479 million.

The Aston Martin Company was started by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin in the year 1913. The very first automobile to be labelled Aston Martin was made by Lionel Martin through setting a 4-cyl Coventry Simplex engine into the 1908 Isotta-Fraschini’s framework.

Space elevator

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:29:53 PST

A space elevator is a proposed non rocket space launch structure. A space elevator made of a carbon nanotubes composite ribbon anchored to an offshore sea platform would stretch to a small counterweight approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 km) into space.

Hydraulic Pipe Bender

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:33:33 PST

Introduction:

Hydraulic pipe bender is used for bending almost all types of pipes except conduit pipes. The pipe benders are ideal for pipe fitters and general engineering applications. The bending capacity of hydraulic pipe bender varies as per the strength, power and performance. They are designed with extra power for large jobs and are suited for various types of bending and forming operations.

Construction:

The hydraulic pipe bender setup consists of a hydraulic jack, die of required angle, supporting blocks, pins for supporting blocks, and plates of required shape and size which are drilled with holes of required diameters. A lever having a cut slot at one end is used to loosen or tighten the pin of the jack and also to move the piston up or down by pimping action. The whole assembly is mounted on a base plate, and the plate having drilled holes is attached to the base plate by welding.

Working of Hydraulic Jack:

This system uses a piston type hand pump to power a single hydraulic cylinder and the operation is as explained:

A manual force is applied at a point A of handle ABC, which is pivoted about point C. The piston of the hand is pinned to the input handle at point B. The hand pump essentially consists of a cylinder containing a piston, which is free to move up and down. The piston and rod are rigidly connected together. When the handle is pulled up, the piston raises and creates vacuum in the space below it. As a result the atmospheric pressure forces the oil to leave the tank and flow through the check valve 1 and this is the suction process, where a check valve is a component that allows the fluid flow in only one direction as indicated by the arrow.

When the handle is then pushed down, the oil is released from the hand pump and flows to check valve 2 which enters the bottom of the load cylinder. The load cylinder is similar in construction to the pump cylinder and contains a piston. From Pascal’s law we know that the pressure acting on the load piston equals the pressure generated by the pump below its piston. Thus each time the input handle is cycled up and down; a specified volume of oil is ejected from the pump to raise the load cylinder to a given distance against its load resistance. The below valve is hand operated valve which, when opened allows the load to be lowered by bleeding oil from the load cylinder back to the oil tank. It should be noted that oil enters and exits from each cylinder at only one end.

Working:

The whole assembly is first placed on a flat surface and the pin of the jack is tightened. The piston of the jack is retracted with the help of a lever; the die is mounted on the piston and the supporting blocks are placed in between the two plates using a pin, which is for the support.

The holes in the plate are provided so that the supporting blocks can be adjusted as per the requirement. If the diameter of the pipe which is to be bent is more than the supporting blocks, then the positioning of the block will depend on the diameter and the angle to which the pipe has to be bent. As the die and the piston reciprocates, the pipe which is placed on the support will be pushed towards the supporting block and the further pushing of the block will result in bending of pipe. After the desired angle of bending is attained, giving 3 revolutions to it loosens the pin of the hydraulic jack. A special care should be taken while tightening and loosening the pin. When the pin is half loose, the piston shouldn’t be pressed which will apply pressure on the seals and they may fail and leaking of oil might occur, which is undesirable

Hydraulic Pipe Bender angle plate

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:26:03 PST

Samsung buys Sony's entire stake in LCD joint venture

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:51:41 PST

Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy out Sony's entire stake in their liquid crystal display (LCD) joint venture.

The Korean electronics maker said it will pay Sony 1.08tn won ($939m; £600m) in cash for its stake.
The move comes as Sony has been restructuring its TV business, which has been making a loss for the past seven years.
Samsung, meanwhile, has gone on to become the world's largest maker of TVs and flat screen panels.
"Under the agreement, Samsung will acquire all of Sony's shares of S-LCD Corporation, the two companies' LCD panel manufacturing joint venture, making S-LCD a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung," Samsung Electronics said in a statement.
Tough times The joint venture between two companies was established in 2004, when a boom in the global economy saw a surge in demand for consumer electronics.
However, things have take a dramatic turn in the last three years.

Qingdao Haiwan

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:56:24 PST

China has unveiled the worlds longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais and longer than a marathon. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge was completed on December 27, 2010 and is 26.4 miles long - the equivalent of 174 Tower Bridges, links the main urban area of Qingdao city, East Chinas Shandong province, with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas. The road bridge, which took four years and cost a cool 5.5 billion pounds to build, will be open for use in the New Year and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

Stars congratulate the Bachchans on baby girl

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:56:19 PST

Mumbai: As soon as Amitabh Bachchan announced that Aishwarya Rai has given birth to a baby girl, congratulatory messages from Bollywood stars started pouring in, welcoming the new arrival in the Bachchan family.

"Congratulations!! Baby B had a baby girl!! @juniorbachchan!!! All the love and happiness...am sure she will be the prettiest girl ever!!! (sic)," filmmaker Karan Johar wrote on twitter.

"OMG! So excited Baby B is Daddy to a little Angel! Congrats Ash n @juniorbachchan and to the entire family! Welcome sweet baby girl:)," actress Bipasha Basu said.

Javed Akhtar: "Congratulations Amitabh ji, this has evoked my memory of the day when Shweta was born. Time flies and how swiftly !!"

Anupam Kher: "CONGRATULATIONS @juniorbachchan and Ash. So so Happy. May the new arrival in the family bring more happiness, joy and peace. Love."

Petrol prices may change every 15 days: BPCL

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:55:06 PST

Mumbai: In a new development, oil distribution company BPCL has suggested that petrol prices are likely to change again over the next few days.

According to the company, a regular fortnightly revision is likely to happen in petrol prices.

It has further said that rupee depreciation and crude prices would be reflected in petrol in the next fortnight.

This comes a day after petrol prices were slashed by Rs 1.85 per litre, which was the first cut in the last 33 months.

Reacting to the cut, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas RPN Singh had said, "Crude oil have come down by $4 and we have passed it on to consumers. Petrol prices are deregulated."

Cyan Nokia Lumia 800 hitting UK in December, pink in early 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:22:45 PST

As you probably know the Nokia Lumia 800 will be offered in three color versions - black, cyan and pink. However, it turns out that only one of those will be available at the launch of the smartphone next week with the other two colors arriving in the following months.
According to the latest bit of online gossip, the first Nokia Lumia 800 adopters in the UK will have no choice, but to get the black version. The cyan units will be arriving shortly after that - in the first week of December, while the pink edition will hit the shelves after Christmas.
So if you were a lady looking to buy herself a cute pink smartphone for Christmas, you might have to look elsewhere. Or settle for another color - the non-painted unibody is making this one a great looker no matter the color, really.
If you are still undecided on whether or not to jump on the Nokia Windows Phone bandwagon, you might want to check out our Nokia World 2011 coverage for plenty of live shots, videos, benchmarks and impressions of the Lumia duo.

Apple iPhone 4S

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:17:28 PST

Apple iPhone 4S

Hydraulic Pipe Bender

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:47:56 PST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ct-XrXX2vc

Just-In-Time Manufacturing

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:37:51 PST

JIT is a philosophy of continuous improvement in which non-value-adding activities are identified and removed for the purposes of
Reducing Cost
Improving Quality
Improving Performence
Improving Delivery
Adding Flexibility
JIT is not about automation. JIT eliminates waste by providing the environment to perfect and simplify the processes. JIT is a collection of techniques used to improve operations It can also be a new production system that is used to produce goods or services.

Waste from Overproduction

Waste from Product Defects

Processing Waste

Transportation Waste

Hydraulic Elevators

noreply@blogger.com (Gavin fernandes) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:00:32 PST

http://www.isr.umd.edu/~austin/ense621.d/projects04.d/project-elevator.html