Seth Hulst, Engineering Manager, and Loren Kamstra, Design Engineer, Groschopp Inc. I. Introduction For electrical and mechanical design engineers in the process of developing applications, choosing a gearmotor can be a tricky and ...
A Texas manufacturing company making large gearboxes for the petrochemical industry needed to invert a large heavy gearbox casting up to 8 ft long x 6 ft wide x 4 ft high, weighing up to 10,000 lb, during their machining and assembly ...
Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
Tags: Nationwide Insurance, best-of-breed strategy, technology neutral
The latest milestone to be reached in Nationwide's GBP1bn five-year IT transformation sees the launch of its mobile banking service as the project moves towards the final straight. The building society launched its mobile banking service ...
Tags: Mobile Banking, building society, internet bank, virtual desktops
The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
Tags: government, second G-Cloud framework, UK, double number of suppliers
Designing for the Web isn't what it used to be--thank goodness!HTML5,CSS3,and advances in JavaScript make it possible to do things today that yesterday's Web designers could only dream about. Of course,Web design has also become much more ...
Tags: Web frameworks, HTML5, Web Design, Web designers
With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
Tags: cloud service, IT industry, IT technology, SETI
Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
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The European Commission(EC)plans to have its broadband policy formally adopted by member states by the end of 2012. EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda,Neelie Kroes,outlined key aspects of the policy during a speech in ...
Tags: EC, Broadband, Policy, Private Sector