Key Benefits
- Production conveyor systems given visibility and instant control
- Reduction in accidents, equipment damage and manual labor.
- Company has been able to grow its Philanthropy and charitable contributions.
Aug 312008
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Rather than use the standard 3GP services of your mobile phone service provider and likewise speed up that usual WiFi connection you have at home, here is one solution to your problem. Linksys has unveiled a new kind of Ethernet router that may very well go in hand with your default wireless router, the Linksys WRT54G3GV2-ST Mobile BroadBand Router for Sprint EVDO.
Apparently, we have had issues as far as faster and efficient connection using wireless Internet connectivity both at home and in the office. But now, with the proper influx of EVDO solutions, no longer will you have to worry about sharing connection and also worry about the slow connectivity. Linksys has addressed the problem and based on the features of this new Mobile BroadBand Router for Sprint EVDO, it is just a matter of time before business and office owners would be out in the market to purchase one of these new solutions by Linksys.
Even customers with just one computer in a household or office may find the 3GV2 useful if they are currently forced to locate their computer where their EVDO signal is best, rather than where they want to actually use their computer. By using the router where EVDO signal is best, their computer can be located where they want it, or they can use WiFi connection to router and wander aimlessly without affecting EVDO performance.
The 3GV2 is also a great solution for other electronics that can use WiFi or ethernet connectivity to access the internet but cannot directly use an EVDO card or USB modem. Gaming consoles like the Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstations and Microsoft Xbox have no way to directly connect to the internet using EVDO, but customers who utilize a 3G router like the 3GV2 can play online games like World of Warcraft (WoW), and Super Smash Brothers Brawl… among others.
Aug 302008
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SMB’s have had their share of wanting to advance with technology but apparently the main obstacle here is determining which networking peripherals such as the right Ethernet switches to consider to make their network stay afloat. However, with this new product from ADTRAN, the NetVanta Ethernet switches should be able to provide a new line of possibilities as far as SMB’s requirements for number of ports and higher density layouts. They are said to be priced somewhere in between $595 to $2,895, depending on which among the NetVanta products (NetVanta 1534 and 1534 PoE (with 24 ports), NetVanta 1234 and 1234 PoE (with 24 ports)) would be preferred.
Further, what perhaps makes these products from ADTRAN attractive is that they are power-efficient. The NetVana PoE models offer the ability to be able to power themselves with the use of standard Ethernet cables, something that adheres heavily towards power consumption and conservation today. For most SMBs, this is a great opportunity considering that as far as networking solutions on their end, obtaining quality networking peripherals such as the ones offered by ADTRAN in the market today are sure to be a big boost towards their drive to efficient technology implementation in enhancing current business trends with regards to operations.
“Everyone is really concerned about how much power is being used,†McClain said, a shift from the past when enterprises generally weren’t too worried about this aspect of networking.
As noted earlier, ADTRAN’s new NetVanta switches are geared mostly toward the enterprise market. In particular, Snyder said, the NetVanta line is marketed as customer premises equipment (CPE) for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises. He defined “small†as a business with 2-100 employees, and “medium†as 100-1,000 employees. Many distributed enterprises run units that fit into the SMB category.
Aug 072008
Zeus smiles as an ancient Greek rock quarry get automation assistance using Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders.
Giving Sight to Production Control Visibility
Rock quarries are inherently an age old business that only automates as business demands drag it along. The age of modern equipment and automation of quarry operations in moving material progress slower and the live visibility of these tools would be pretty limited or non-existent. The time tested method of a manual inspection or intervention is slowing giving way to more automated production controls enabled by the use of Ethernet Extension equipment. Operators now have the luxury of placing remote sensing and conveyor system control gear on a smart LAN driven over extreme and harsh environmental conditions and much of it should be credited to the use of Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders.
Halyps Cement Co (one of the largest companies in all of Greece) has leveraged the technology of Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders to provide new visibility and control over production operations. Extender kits were ruggedized and encased in NEMA/IP rated enclosures in the key production control areas and category rated cabling was able reach the necessary LAN based monitoring and control interfaces. Prior to using the Enable-IT Ethernet Extension equipment, this was not possible and required individuals to regularly venture out to each location to manually operate conveyor systems. Now it is enabled and automated to keep workers safe, and allows monitoring of the live production line and growth of the operations to meet business needs without major increases as far as manpower requirements are concerned.
Reducing Manual Labor and Equipment Costs
With the use of LAN based digital control equipment, more precise handling of live production operations can be monitored, controlled and augmented more quickly. Previously this level of production control was not available without user intervention behind the controls. From that, we can see that it requires a longer time to adjust, not to mention the dangerous environment of a rock quarry. With the Enable-IT Ethernet Extension equipment , worker safety is not only compromised but the LAN equipment making the adjustments due to repetition or lower probabilities of error .Overall production has been able to triple and plant growth is flexible to meet changing output demands.
Increasing Production Output and Philanthropy
Halyps Cement and Italcementi Group have funded many artistic performances to give back to it’s community and worldwide Greek art-loving patrons. As recent as 2008 Halyps actively participated in the effort which began throughout Greece to reconstruct the fire hit areas. Halyps Cement contributed to this effort by offering 3,500 tons of cement for infrastructure projects or/and residences in the afflicted areas, joining in along with the country’s business community via the information and coordination office set up by SEV (Hellenic Federation of Enterprises) in cooperation with the Emergency Aid Fund established for this purpose
Ancient Site propelled into new century on the back of Ethernet Extension Kits
Holy Mount Olympus! The Ethernet Extension equipment has provided the company with a new prospective on how to leverage digital technology to control, manage and profit from this age old quarry business.
Solutions Used â–º 860 LRE Kit – 100Mbps FD Throughput – worlds fastest Ethernet Extender
Aug 072008
Strong Structural Steel Ltd – Solving Extreme Challenges w/ruggedized Solutions
Solving harsh metal smelting / foundry environment challenges through protected Extended Ethernet solutions.
Key Benefits
- Major reduction in workplace danger/accidents
- Smart LAN gear leveraging Extended Ethernet for live production control
- Tripling of production and plant growth as a result.
Meeting Evolving Production Demand and Growing Business Needs
The reliability of Steel foundry operations can be measured properly through the type of wear and tear environments that they would submit to. Among the potential challenges include extreme heat, micro pollutants and distances to reach monitoring and control equipment that are spread out across a huge production line with lots of very dangerous hazards everywhere.
Strong Structural Steel Ltd tested and then leveraged the technology of Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders to meet and beat these challenges head-on. Extender kits were ruggedized and encased in NEMA/IP rated enclosures in the key production control areas and on the production floor where flexible category rated cabling was able reach the necessary LAN based monitoring and control interfaces. Prior to using the Enable-IT Ethernet Extension equipment, there was lack of expertise and specialization as far as being able to regularly visit out each location and manually operate and collect information. Today, it can be easily enabled and automated to keep workers safe, offering better monitoring of the live production line and grow the operations to meet business demands without a major increase in personnel and manpower requirements.
Improving Performance on the Factory Floor
With the use of LAN based digital control equipment, precise handling of live production operations can be closely monitored, controlled and augmented. Previously, this level of production control required the assistance of manual operators at each of the controls, making it longer as far as being able to make adjustments to the dangerous environment of a foundry floor. The Enable-IT Ethernet Extension equipment has allowed this to be automated in such a fashion so that workers safety is not compromised and the LAN equipment making the adjustments never grows tired of the repetition or makes mistakes. Overall production has been able to do more and plant growth is able to easily flex in meeintg changing output demands.
Reducing Production Downtime
Equipment maintenance on a foundry production floor is critical to overall uptime of production operations. Foundry production has thousands of moving parts, cranes and other heavy-duty mechanical equipment that requires constant monitoring and maintenance. The monitoring chores were performed by visual inspection and manual re-tooling adjustments. Downtime for repairs costs the business, hence the implementation of a new LAN based smart monitoring sensors and re-tooling adjustments is able to more rapidly alert control staff as to potential issues, fix minor problems before they grow into larger more costly breakdowns.
Creating New Value with a High-Performance Extended LAN Solution
The Ethernet Extension equipment has provided the company with a new prospective on how to leverage digital technology to control, manage and profit from this age old foundry business.
Solutions Used
860 LRE Kit – 100Mbps FD Throughput – worlds most popular and fastest Ethernet Extender
820 LRE and PoE Kit – Ethernet Data and PoE Extender – For unpowered remote controls
Aug 072008
Key Benefits
â–º Enables new data sensors to send real time down a flexible tether line
â–º Solid state, low power to meet repeated extreme crash shock challenges
â–º Solves issues for researches requiring more precise data results
Meeting Evolving Industry Safety Needs
In today’s science-assisted world, we take a lot of things for granted. Our food is instant, our music is digital, our mail is electronic and our phones are wireless. Much of the innovations we have been accustomed to today were mostly fictitious some years back. And amid all the advanced gadgetry we use day in and day out is another kind of technology most of us never see or touch or experience in any tangible way. With the advancement of technology, everything is virtually transparent. I’m talking about the devices that help ensure all of the products we do interact with are safe. GM has leveraged the technology of Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders to exceed the challenges of harnessing vital data provided in the live sensors to design superior products to protect us; products that we take for granted and relay on to keep us as safe as possible. The Motor Vehicle fatality rate has dropped about 90 percent since 1922, even with millions more vehicles on the road today. That’s largely due to the ongoing pursuit sof higher levels of safety through mechanical engineering. Drivers and car owners who have ever had the harrowing experience of walking away from an automobile accident are likely to have a GM engineered dummy and the Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders to thank for.
Improving Performance and Quality of Data
Before using the Enable-IT Ethernet Extension solutions, GM design and safety engineers have to rely on more mechanical sensors for capturing crash test results. These results were static and not based on how car crashes occurred. The Enable-IT Ethernet Extension kits revolutionized the dynamic crash results to record them real-time as they happened. By adding thousands of feet of standard CAT5e cabling to the existing car tethers and installing an Enable-IT 895 LRE kit on each end, engineers were able to use network smart sensors and more sophisticated equipment inside the test crash cars to capture more data and place smaller sensors in locations that were not around with older mechanical sensors. The type and amount of new data has dramatically helped designers and engineers to make critical adjustments to car designs for better crash performance and our safety.
Reducing costs for expendable equipment
A key benefit of using the Enable-IT Ethernet Extension technology for high speed, real-time data capture is the replacement of bulky expendable mechanical sensors that are expensive to replace with that of miniature network smart micro digital sensors. They are far superior to crash survivability, cheaper to replace and more numerous for data capture. The weight savings of being able to remove the old equipment and more accurately placing real-world loads into crash test vehicles have increased the quality of data captured and lowered the carbon footprint of the recyclable waste known as the post crash test.
Creating New Value with a High-Performance Extended LAN Solution
Someday, on-screen computer “dummies” may be replaced by actual humans complete with the human body organ systems such as hearts and lungs. But this is not likely that those electronic scenarios will replace the real thing in the near future. Crash dummies will continue to provide GM researchers and others with remarkable insight and intelligence about occupant crash protection for many years to come and Enable-IT Ethernet Extenders will be there to provide the real-time data to the designers and engineers have come to rely on to ultimately keep us safe.
