Chinese import has been a center of debate for all sorts of reasons. It is a threat or opportunity depending solely on how you view it. There are numerous protest groups which will advocate banning import from China, citing reasons from ...
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A new American national robot safety standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Developed by Robotic Industries Assn. (RIA), the ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 standard has been updated for the first time since ...
Tags: Robot, Electrical, Electronics
We all know the siren call of eBay: The one-of-a-kind finds. The chance to score them at low prices. The excitement that comes with the potential of being outbid. It’s a regular thrill ride. And, for those of you searching for used ...
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The country's apex trade body for garment manufacturers instructed its member factories in Ashulia to prepare a biometric database of their workers within three months. "We have been trying to make a central workers' database for a long ...
Modern Medical has rolled out its Opioid Defense Manager (ODM) solution in an effort to curb increasing opioid abuse in the workers' compensation industry across the US. Initially introduced in November 2012 in a test phase, the ODM is a ...
Millenials don't mind mixing their work lives and personal lives, and they look for offices that seem less corporate and more homey. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone from the Millenial generation who never pushed his desk around a ...
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One of the most politically charged phrases in IT these days is "skills shortage." That phrase may come up Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee, as expected, takes up a series of industry-sponsored amendments to the immigration bill. ...
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So Google Glass is finally in the hands of the public and we're pounded daily with commentary about how it's the death of privacy, looks lame, and is rife with potential exploits. All possibly true. What if your company required every ...
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A choice of packaging machinery includes technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility ...
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Food Packaging requires protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It also shows the product that is labeled to show any nutrition information on the food being consumed. It is ...
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A Lexus LFA owner in Norway has successfully campaigned his local council to remove a speed hump that was too high to drive his car over. Norwegian website Broom reports Rune Berge Vik first realised he had a problem soon after collecting ...
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The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, a collaboration of six leading U.S. and Canadian apparel and retail trade associations, sent a letter to the Prime Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wazed regarding the serious ...
High-tech's leading advocate in the immigration bill fight, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), has bought himself some time, perhaps until Tuesday, to try get the immigration bill changed to the liking of the tech industry. Negotiations are ...
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Vocollect, a business unit of Intermec, and a leader in voice-enabled solutions for mobile workers, has unveiled its new Talkman A700 solution that introduces a voice industry first – integrated voice and scanning in one wearable ...
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This week, Clerkenwell will be London’s centre of creativity. Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 will host 60 showrooms, a large number of manufacturers with new projects and designs, with special guests, designers and architects. For three ...
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