by rakesh | Sep 5, 2006 | Business
Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Senior Vice President, Cranes Software International Ltd., said “This award once again underlines the competence that Cranes has achieved in designing and conceptualizing state of the art products to cater to the needs of engineers and researchers in India and across the globe.”
Dr. Ramdass Keshavamurthy Vice President – Product Development represented Cranes at the grand event to receive the award, said “We are honored to receive this award. This award validates our belief that NISA/CIVIL is one of the few packages which has been designed for the ease of use with the practicing engineers in mind. This award would motivate us to take it further to make it the ultimate tool for the practicing civil engineers for their design and analysis needs”.
NISA/CIVIL offers CAD based solutions to a wide variety of problems encountered in the Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures. Backed by powerful NISA II Analysis and DISPLAY, NISA/CIVIL provides excellent tools for modeling, associating design information and carry out design process in limit state and working stress methodologies of design. Design results are processed to produce structural engineering drawings in AutoCAD™ environment. . A convenient interface to import STAAD™ models into NISA and to export NISA models into STAAD is also provided. NISA/CIVIL is one of the few civil engineering design packages to support the design of irrigation & water retaining structures.
NISA Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software is one of the most advanced engineering analysis tool available for the Automotive, Aerospace, Energy & Power, Oil & Gas, Civil Engineering, Electronic Packaging and Biomedical industry. NISA is an industry leader with proven capabilities in the areas of Stress Analysis, Seismic Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Composite Material Analysis, Motion & Linkage Analysis, Fatigue Analysis, Thermal Analysis, PCB Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetic Analysis and Civil Structure Analysis. It offers a completely integrated pre-post processing environment and seamless interoperability with leading commercial CAD softwares.
by rakesh | Sep 1, 2006 | Business
ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY)(NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced Xilleon® 260, the first System-on-a-Chip that supports Full HD for worldwide DTV (digital television) standards including Europe, Japan, Korea and North America. Xilleon 260 is designed to help consumer electronics manufacturers meet and surpass the high quality video and audio expectations of home theater enthusiasts. ATI is showcasing DTV solutions at IFA from September 1 to 6, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.
Xilleon 260 follows the outstanding success of Xilleon® 240 currently found in TV solutions from leading consumer electronics manufacturers. Xilleon 260 includes an exceptionally powerful video pipeline for SD and HD content. Advanced features include HD deinterlacing, 3D comb filter, dynamic contrast, noise reduction, sharpness, and color control to deliver top quality end-to-end performance. Xilleon 260 also offers a full audio subsystem for home theater applications.
“Xilleon 260 addresses the needs of worldwide TV manufacturers for mainstream and high end applications,” said Dave Di Orio, Vice President & General Manager, DTV Group, ATI Technologies Inc. “Xilleon 260 incorporates all the key technologies in a single chip solution that help to reduce the overall TV design cost compared to traditional multi-chip solutions. We’re confident that Xilleon 260 reaffirms ATI’s technology leadership position in the DTV market.”
Xilleon 260 is currently sampling to customers.
About ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics, PC platform technologies and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world’s foremost graphics processor unit (GPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld device markets. With fiscal 2005 revenues of US $2.22 billion, ATI has more than 3,400 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
by rakesh | Aug 30, 2006 | Business
Inaugurating the National Workshop on Promotion of Co-generation/Captive Power Plants in Pulp and Paper Mills, organized by his Ministry here today, Shri Muttemwar said that the waste generated by rapid industrialization can be utilized for generating power through waste-to-energy conversion technologies. This can address the challenge of waste disposal and Green House Gas (GHG) emission besides making the industry self-dependent for power. Shri Muttemwar explained the imperative to encourage greater use of renewable energy and to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the backdrop of crude oil prices crossing $75/barrel and coal prices doubling in international market in recent years.
The Minister emphasized the importance of such projects in the paper and pulp sector, which is one of the energy intensive and highly polluting sector. He underlined the fact that compared to average fuel consumption per unit output by various industries in India, this sector consumes twice the amount of fuels. He added that paper industry is eminently suited for power co-generation as 75-85% of energy is required for process heat and 15-25% as electrical power. Further, large quantity of wastewater generated in pulp and paper industry can be used for generating biogas through biomethanation of the effluents, which in turn can be utilized for production of thermal energy electricity.
Shri Muttemwar also informed that his Ministry is implementing various programmes/schemes for installation of co-generation projects based on biomass and energy recovery from industrial waste. Financial assistance is extended to encourage setting up of such projects, which in addition to providing energy & helping in creative disposal of waste, also helps to cut down transmission and distribution losses.
On this occasion, Shri Muttemwar released the National Master Plan (NMP) for Development of Waste-to-Energy prepared by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources under the UNDP/GEF assisted project on High Rate Biomethanation Processes. He said that the NMP provides a framework for waste-to-energy programme for the country by covering all the waste streams from urban and industrial sector. The primary objective of NMP is to catalyze additional decentralized power generation capacity through projects for energy recovery from urban and industrial wastes in a cost-effective manner by deployment of technologies that are suitable to the Indian conditions. The NMP is expected to serve as a Road Map for planning and implementation of projects in the urban and industrial sectors, in a phased manner over the next decade.
The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has organized the one-day workshop in association with Cogeneration Association of India and Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association to discuss various issues including Policy & Financing, Technology Configurations & Case Studies and Action Plan for promotion of Cogen/Captive Power Plants at Pulp & Paper Mills. The Workshop was attended by representatives of industry from all over the country along with State Nodal Agencies.
by rakesh | Aug 30, 2006 | Business
Addressing the company’s directors here, he said SAIL’s growth plan needs to be completed within three years instead of five as scheduled earlier. He called upon them to take all steps to make the organization strong enough not only to withstand all impediments but develop into a leading international enterprise as well. Shri Paswan asked the SAIL management to opt only for the best proven technology and never compromise while implementing the modernization and expansion plans. He directed them to speed up the expansion of its distribution network covering each district in the country to make quality steel available to the consumers.
The SAIL Board accorded approval for three new projects at an estimated cost of Rs. 350 crore. The projects cleared include the re-building of the Coke Oven Battery (COB) No.6 at the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) at a cost of Rs. 176 crore. This project will help the BSP meet its coke requirement for enhanced hot metal capacity envisaged in its modernization and expansion plan on a sustained basis. It would be the 6th COB of SAIL to be taken up for revamping and retrofitting with the state-of-the-art pollution control measures under this growth plan.
Another project approved at the SAIL Board Meeting was installation of a computerized project system at the Steel Melting Shop (SMS)-II of the Bokaro Steel Plant at a cost of Rs. 31 crore. The on-line process system is the latest of its kind and will be integrated with the existing system for improvement in the quality of steel produced by SMS-II and for upgrading its efficiency.
As on date, projects involving a total investment of around Rs. 17,300 crore are under various stages of implementation by SAIL. Among the major projects is the Rs. 1,553 crore expansion plan for the Salem Steel Plant.
by rakesh | Aug 10, 2006 | Business
Bangalore, August 08, 2006
Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services Division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that findings from a survey, conducted jointly with Outsourcing Center, on trends in outsourced R&D revealed that global organizations see an increased value from outsourcing R&D functions and believe that it provides an opportunity to improve time to market. The survey, which was conducted among CTOs of global companies who are subscribers of Outsourcing Center portal, sought to understand key drivers to outsource R&D and how this aligned with their overall R&D strategy.
The study revealed that the greater value that companies see in R&D outsourcing is the opportunity it provides to tap into worldwide skills and capabilities to improve existing products and services and accelerate new R&D. The study also revealed that selecting an R&D partner with a deep knowledge of emerging markets and new geographies will enhance the value that companies can achieve through their outsourcing strategy.
Commenting on the report, Debra Floyd, COO, Outsourcing Center said, “This study indicates a strategic change that is taking place in the way companies are looking at their R&D and new product development strategies. There is an increased trend of companies partnering with various outsourcing providers to achieve faster time to market and more cost-effective innovation. There is clearly an increase in companies adopting a collaborative model of product development to be able to stay competitive in a global marketplace.”
“As the world’s largest independent R&D Services provider, we have been spearheading the emergence of a ‘global innovation network’ where we work with the principal as well as several partners across the complete product development lifecycle starting from product strategy to IP development, embedded engineering and chip design right up to building a prototype of the finished product”, said Ramesh Emani, President, Product Engineering Solutions, Wipro Technologies. “Increasingly, we are playing the role of an aggregator and not just a vendor, in some cases even partnering on a ‘risk-sharing’ compensation model”, he added.
The research polled close to 100 subscribers at the Outsourcing Center portal during March 2006. The results were based on inputs from Chief Technology Officers, Product Managers and Engineering Managers on the following:
• Access to 24/7 global R&D processes
• Ability to exploit pools of skilled labor
• Reduced R&D costs
• Reduced time to market for innovations
• Ability to tailor goods and services to particular markets
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