Author: Ray Keefe
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Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it
Collaboration So what is Collaboration? The first thing it is not is convincing someone to work for you for nothing with the vague promise you will make it worth their while in the long run. Let’s look at a few formal definitions: Collaboration is working with each other to do a task and…
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Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 Winners Announced
Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 Last night we attended the Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards gala dinner at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney as finalists in the Technology application of the Year category. We didn’t win this year but we also didn’t know what each of our competitors had submitted until the dinner. I was…
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Internet of Things
Internet of Things The Internet of Things or IoT, has been around for a while now as a term. It refers to the ecosystem of smart and connected devices that provide access to remote information and also allow remote control and supervision. There is a lot of technology involved in making this possible and it…
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Electronics Design: Requirements Capture
Requirements Capture Product Development is the core process your use when you have a great idea for a new product, or an improved version of an existing one. The very first step is to define what it is meant to do. This first step is known as Requirements Capture. And requirements break down into…
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Electronics Design: Process
Electronics Design The Electronics Design Process involves a number of steps. Unless what you are doing is a minor tweak to an existing product, you will use these steps. Over the next few weeks I will unpack what is involved in each step but this post is just going to be the list of steps.…
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Electricity Grid 2.0
What if we could start again In the days when DC converters didn’t exist, it made sense to base our electrical distribution system on transformers and AC voltage level shifting. It still makes sense to distribute at high voltage where resistive losses in the wires are a smaller issue than they are at lower voltages.…
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Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards Finalists 2014
Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 I recently spotlighted the Endeavour Awards which are held on the first evening of National Manufacturing Week. This is where we celebrate manufacturing success stories each year. What I didn’t mention at the time was that we had entered this year for the first time. The awards are run…
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Tetris: Big Time
Tetris Tetris was the first Russian game exported to the USA. It is a geometric puzzle matching game where falling clusters of squares can be rotated before they hit the bottom. The aim is to form rows with no gaps. These disappear and the stack drops 1 level. The longer you can keep rows disappearing,…