Tata Motors Action to Assist Surat Customers

by rakesh | Sep 6, 2006 | Business

Tata Motors has discussed the need for urgent action with insurance companies and the All India Surveyors Association for speedy survey and repair approvals. The guidelines for repairs and the survey, including the charges allowed, have already been circulated to all company dealers and authorised service centres.

Arrangements have been made for expeditious supply of spares. The company has received support from vendors and suppliers of lubricants, anti-rust treatment, car cleaning and refurbishing, branded accessories etc for special attention to cater to large volumes and special discounts of upto 25% on most of the treatments. Dealers have also been advised to offer 25% discount on repairs, not covered by insurance companies.

Additional manpower and dedicated teams have been deployed to attend to flood-affected vehicles on all seven days of a week for the next few months.

Of the about 1000 Tata Motors vehicles affected by the floods, approximately 700 have already been brought to the company’s dealers and authorised service centres, since August 17. Of these, about 150 vehicles have already been delivered back to customers after necessary repairs.

Johnson & Johnson Sued

by rakesh | Sep 6, 2006 | Business

Elizabeth Barroso, now 24, began experiencing chest pains and difficulty breathing after using Ortho Evra(R) for only three weeks in 2004. She spent eight days in the hospital, where doctors treated her for blood clots in her lungs. Ms. Barroso had no prior history of such problems.

After being released, Ms. Barroso was prescribed blood-thinning medication for 10 months. She became pregnant in October 2004, but later suffered a miscarriage. When she later became pregnant in 2005, Ms. Barroso was forced to endure daily self-injections of blood thinners to prevent another miscarriage. Due to her injuries from Ortho Evra(R), all of Ms. Barroso’s future pregnancies will carry a risk of miscarriage and will require similar treatment.

“This young lady’s life was put in jeopardy by a company that made a harmful product,” says John David Hart of the Law Offices of John David Hart in Fort Worth, Texas. “And the tragic thing is the company continues to market and sell this product even today.”

The case is the latest of many against Johnson & Johnson, which earlier this year settled other cases involving Ortho Evra(R) and the development of blood clots.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, says the package insert that came with Ortho Evra(R) was misleading and in direct conflict with Johnson & Johnson’s own data. The insert suggests the risk of blood clots among Ortho Evra(R) users is equivalent to that of women using oral contraceptives.

However, from April 2002 to December 2004, the company logged 27,974 adverse events among Ortho Evra(R) users. During that same time period, Johnson & Johnson noted only 5,571 adverse events for one of its oral contraceptives, even though it was used three times more than Ortho Evra(R).

Cranes Software Wins the ‘ACCE CDC Award 2006’

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.