...for an upgrade to the system. After researching ways to do this, I ran across software that works with Oracle which allows product to be entered through verbally. Baker & Taylor began binding and publishing books in 1828. They made sure their books made it onto library and store shelves and into readers' hands. Baker & Taylor has been in business for over 180 years and is the world's largest distributor of books and entertainment. They are a well known supplier of paper and digital books to libraries and they primarily serve two types of markets. The first market involves the core business of distributing books, videos, and music, as well as providing value services to thousands of school, public, and specialty libraries worldwide. The second market is the firm's retail unit supplies storefront and Internet book and music retailers, as well as independent booksellers, with a million book titles and about 385,000 DVD and CD titles. Voice technology also answers the need to increase worker productivity. This technology—in which a computer is able to identify speech as well as give "spoken" instructions—is muscling its way into the warehouse because it frees up workers' hands so their workflow is uninterrupted while they communicate with a computer. This technology improves such operations as parts inspection, putaway and order selection. Typically, it's used with an order management or warehouse management system (WMS). It takes data from these systems, synthesizes it into...
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...warehouse by giving the advantages and disadvantages of both methods. Automated warehouses use sortation devices, retrieval systems and several other automated solutions. In contrast, Physical employees play a bigger part in a manual warehouse, by picking locations and goods and moving them to the delivery dock. Automated solutions are generally more popular in Germany and Japan than in America and the UK, mainly because America and the UK tend to focus more on the shorter payback period of a manual system. The payback period of an automated warehouse, on the other hand, is commonly around five years. Although an automated system increases (market) risks, the costs to perform logistic tasks decrease significantly. However, automated warehouses are not as flexible as manual warehouses because manual solutions make it easier to add or remove new services. In contrast, adding or removing new services is more difficult and more costly in an automated system. Moreover, manual systems can recover quicker from a poor supply chain design than the automated counterpart. This risk concerning supply chain design is important to keep in mind when one wants an automated system with a high throughput flow. When a company builds an automated warehouse, they should make sure they have good overall visibility to deliveries. This could prevent a company from building more systems than there were required. In conclusion automated warehouses decrease the handling costs but it increases risks across...
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...FILE MANAGMENT AND MEMORY STORAGE Parnell Davis POS/355 December 22, 2014 Professor, Eric Godat FILE MANAGMENT AND MEMORY STORAGE FILE MANAGEMENT, MINIMUM MEMORY AND STORAGE The memory accessible to the kernel and consumer space must be at least 340MB at device implementation. Hardware machinery such as broadcasting systems, video, and other devices as that are not under the kernel's control are excluded from the 340MB designated memory. The absolute value "true" for ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice occurs when the implementation memory accessible to the kernel and user space is less than 512MB. A minimum of 1GB of non-volatile storage space available is required for application confidential data Device implementation. In addition 1GB is required for the datapartition. Android systems are futuristic, although it’s not mandatory; its best have at least 2GB of non-volatile storage available for application personal data as the user may desire to upgrade to the future releases. Application Shared Storage Storage is a major component within implementation as shared storage applications are a requirement for applications and must be 1GB or more available. Configuration with storage mounted by default is an additional requirement. It is necessary that the device include a Linux symbolic link from /sdcard to the actual mount point. It is even more crucial if the If the shared storage is not mounted on the Linux path /sdcard. In addition, system implementations are required...
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...for Agriculture Proprietary Solar Thermal Power and Energy Storage System The rising costs of energy, regulatory issues and pollution concerns regarding fossil fuels are causing the COLD BUILDING and PRODUCE PROCESS agricultural community to evaluate alternative energy systems for powering their operations. The proprietary concept and application is to not only utilize the power of the sun to provide the energy, but to have a low cost and efficient method in creating 24/7/365 power storage when the sun is not producing power. Currently: 1. Solar photovoltaic installations have been implemented in some operations and reasonably lowered the utility cost of electricity. 2. Ice plant implementations have been utilized to transform electricity power to cold thermal power during low utility cost periods ( night) and then fed back during high cost periods (afternoons), helping to reduce electricity costs. 3. In process buildings solar thermal systems have been utilized to provide both low grade heat for water and electricity. These have been partial solutions and have lacked the essential ingredient for 24/7 operation which is storing sufficient energy to run during the night as well as the day at a reduced cost. New Concept: We have an optical hyper-energetic light system: 1) Our system has lower capital costs (approx.35% less); 2) Uses direct sun power, to heat, to heat storage, to energy production 24/7 with 75%-80% efficiency; 3) Potential...
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...Jasmin Kenjar NT1110 MODULE 3 SHORT ANSWER 3.1 The major components of the motherboard are the system bus and the I/O bus, the chipset, the form factors (intergrated I/O ports and memory slots), expansion slots, and memory storage interfaces. (1) The system bus controls the signals for data, power, control and addresses. (2) The I/O bus connects the storage devices to the system bus. (3) The chipset incorporates all the controllers on the motherboard. (4) The form factor is the layout of the computer’s motherboard.Intergrated I/O ports allows us to connect input/output devices such as keyboards. Memory slots contain the memory module which the system can’t function without. (5) Expansion slots: a. A PCI slot is used for many types of add on cards b. AGP is used for high speed video graphics. c. PCIe sends information faster than the PCI and AGP. d. AMR: Enables motherboard designers to place analog modem and audio connectors and the codec chip used to translate between analog and digital signals on a smaller riser card. e. CNR: A longer design that can support up to 6 channel audio, S/PDIF digital audio, and home networking functions. (6) The attachment point for mass storage devices is a mass storage interface. If you upgrade the motherboard you will only get some performance improvement to a computer system because the computer depends on more than the motherboard. Every bus in the motherboard has a specific function. These buses cannot be replaced with just...
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...carried by the system bus. Data, power, control, and address 3. How are memory locations identified and accessed? By an address scheme, and numbering the bits 4. What is another name for the MCH? What is its function? The Northbridge, its where the RAM goes 5. What is another name for the ICH? What is its function? The Southbridge, its where the input and output slots go. 6. List the 4 most common motherboard form factors. ATX, Micro ATX, BTX, and NLX 7. When was the ATX introduced? What was its predecessor? 1990’s, and AT, BabyAT 8. What was a major problem with the ATX design? How was this corrected? The cooling System, by doing the BTX design 9. Which of the ATX and BTX layouts are the smallest? picoBTX and the FlexATX 10. What is an integrated I/O port form included on all motherboards? Rear port clusters 11. How many memory slots do modern motherboards have? How many memory modules are required to boot a PC? 2 or more slots, and 1 memory module 12. List the most common expansion slots types on modern computers. PCI, PCIe, and AGP 13. What is the speed and bit size of the PCI bus? 33Mhz 32 bit 14. Which port type was developed for 3D graphics? The AGP 15. Which expansion slot types were replaced by PCIe? PCI and AGP slots 16. Explain the speed-per-lane of PCIe and compare the different versions. V1.0=250Mbps, V2.0=500Mbps, V3.0=1Gbps 17. List the major mass storage interface types...
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...involved in mass production. Food safety is an assurance that food being produced is safe for consumption. Rapid food poisoning is resultant from poor handling of food. Food safety is a program that seeks to streamline the handling of food to prevent food poisoning. For this paper, the context of mass production of food is assumed. Food poisoning is not only a health hazard but also leads to loss to such an organization that is involved in food production. Poor food storage and handling is expensive. For instance, it results to loss to the organization in terms of food going bad in mass or in small quantities. On the other hand, it leads to food poisoning especially for when consumed which may result to losses and heavy litigation costs and damages. This makes it necessary to institute food safety mechanisms during handling and storage. Food safety is a process and not a one-off activity. It is a mechanism that ensures that at every stage, handling and storage is monitored to ensure that no compromises are made. There are a number of systems that are employed to facilitate food safety. For instance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) are the most commonly used systems of assuring food safety. GMP is a process employed at processing plants to ensure that pre-packaged food is developed in hygienic processes. HACCP strategy HACCP is a program that is widely used in enhancing food safety. It is a system that employs...
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...Thermal Management 3.5 PCMs Thermal Management 3.6 Effectiveness comparison 3.7 Cost efficiency comparison 3.0 Background Information on PCMs 4.8 Description of Organic and Non-organic PCMs 4.9 Standard of Selecting PCMs for Thermal Management 4.10 The chemical and thermal characteristics of paraffin wax (Organic) 4.11 The chemical and thermal characteristics of stearic acid (Non-organic) 4.0 Thermal Conductivity Improvement of PCMs Using Expanded Graphite (EG) 5.12 Microstructures of Composite PCMs 5.13 Thermal Characteristic of Composite PCMs 5.14.1 Paraffin Wax with EG composite 5.14.2 Stearic Acid with EG Composite 5.14 Comparison on Thermal Storage Performance of paraffin/EG with stearic acid/EG 5.0 Conclusion and Recommendation 6.0 Bibliography Table of Figures Figure 1 - Power Battery Pack Figure 2 – Thermal Management Using Air Figure 3 – Thermal Management Using Liquid Figure 4 – Thermal Management Using PCM Figure 5 - Thermophysical Properties of PCMs Figure 6 - SEM Micrographs of the Paraffin/EG Composite PCM Figure 7 – SEM Micrographs of the Stearic Acid/EG Composite PCM Executive Summary Emissions from transportation purposes accounts for 34% and 13%, respectively, of US and global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG). Fossil fuel powered automobiles significantly contribute to not only global warming but also the depletion of fossil fuel...
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...MAJOR ISSUES AND TRENDS IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT I. COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING/COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN * It is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. * It also refers to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a manufacturing plant, including planning, management, transportation and storage. * Its primary purpose is to create a faster production process and components and tooling with more precise dimensions and material consistency, which in some cases, uses only the required amount of raw material (thus minimizing waste), while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. * It is a subsequent computer-aided process after computer-aided design (CAD) and sometimes computer-aided engineering (CAE), as the model generated in CAD and verified in CAE can be input into CAM software, which then controls the machine tool CAD / Computer-Aided Design Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer programs to create two- or three-dimensional (2D or 3D) graphical representations of physical objects. CAD software may be specialized for specific applications. CAD is widely used for computer animation and special effects in movies, advertising, and other applications where the graphic design itself is the finished product. CAD is also used to design physical products in a wide range of industries, where the software performs calculations for determining an optimum shape...
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...Efficient use and installation of Thermal Mass to utilize solar thermal energy Submitted to: Dr. M.S. Soni Submitted by: Prateek Jain(2011B1A4696P) Chintan Singhvi(2011B2A4811P) Contents ABSTRACT...................................................................................................................................................... 3 KEY WORDS ................................................................................................................................................... 3 BASIC OPERATING PRINCIPLE ....................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 4 THEORY ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................................................... 10 Data Collected: ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Analysis of material thermal properties and performance: ................................................................... 11 Measurements of the hostel rooms: ...........................
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...____________________________________ 8 Chapter 3 Technological applications _____________________________________________________ 11 Solar-powered adsorption icemakers _____________________________________________________ 12 Self chilling beer kegs _________________________________________________________________ 15 Solar-powered adsorption air conditioners ________________________________________________ 16 Chapter 4 Key issues for future development _______________________________________________ 18 The heat/mass transfer issue ___________________________________________________________ 19 Heat recovery _______________________________________________________________________ 21 Bibliography _________________________________________________________________ 24 2 Introduction Although adsorptive processes have been extensively studied for gas separation, catalysis, etc., it is only recently that they have been proposed for heat management. The interest in adsorption systems started to increase, firstly due to the oil crisis in the 1970s that lead to a concern about the energy shortage, and then later, in the 1990s, because of ecological problems related to the use of CFCs and HCFCs as refrigerants. Such refrigerants when released into the atmosphere, deplete the ozone layer and contribute to the greenhouse effect. Furthermore, with the increase of the energy consumption worldwide, it is becoming even more urgent to find ways of using the...
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...Along with the growth of the numbers of vehicles produced, conventional forms of transport undergo radical reconstruction: speed was increased, design was changed, efficiency enhanced, more cars became available for people with different financial positions. At the same time some transport problems have emerged. These problems caused mostly by excessive development the automotive industry. Hypertrophied fleet of large cities in Europe, Asia and America is causing constant traffic jams on the streets. Moreover, these problems deprives citizens of the advantages of fast and maneuverable way of moving. The most important aspect of rapidly grooving production of vehicles seriously degrades the environment. Transport as a particularly dynamic system has always been one of the first “customers” for the discoveries and achievements of various sciences, including fundamental. It is difficult to come up with a field of research that have no relation to transport. Fundamental research in sciences such as mathematics, physics, mechanics, thermodynamic, fluid dynamics, optics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, hydrology, biology have particular importance for...
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...memory. Basically, a program is loaded into memory, and that program could modify itself and be written to perform other functions. Binary instructions are fetched at the same time that data operations occur since they share the same bus. From the computer’s memory, instructions are processed in order and executed by the central processing unit (CPU). The focal point is the CPU, which contains an arithmetic login unit (ALU), control unit (CU), and registers (small storage areas). The ALU performs mathematical functions, especially addition. The CU controls the data traffic in and out of the CPU. The registers are small high-speed units that store instructions and data for the CPU. The CPU accepts input and provides output to external devices. A crystal clock, known as the System Clock times each step in the fetch-execute cycle that Von Neumann uses. The faster the clock became, the faster the computing speed became. Once the clock’s maximum potential speed of around 100 MHz was realized, the architecture of the system bus had to be revamped, and several smaller, specialized buses were created to only connect with the CPU and memory. Using Von Neumann architecture is important because this technology allows the transfer...
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...How Speed of a Computer Is Affected By Different Storage Devices Traci Benge CIS/201 May 7, 2012 Charles Jacks Abstract Today’s computers have different ways to store data. Some examples of these ways are devices as the hard disk (aka magnetic disk), floppy disk, RAM, CD ROM, tape, and the flash (aka jump drive, USB memory stick, and thumb drive). Storage devices come in two different sources; primary or secondary. Each of these devices causes the computer to process data at different speeds. This paper will show how each of these devices store data and how they affect the speed of the computer. How Speed of a Computer Is Affected By Different Storage Devices The hard disk of a computer is a secondary type of storage. It can be either an external or internal source of storage for a computer. It is primarily to store a mass amount of data. The data remains stored on the hard disk indefinitely until permanently deleted. The hard disk stores the operating systems and application instructions. Without the hard disk the computer would not know how to open any of its operating systems or any of the other applications for the user. In this RAM (Random Access Memory) works with the hard disk. RAM is part of the primary storage; it contains a software program with small amounts of data for processing. When the computer boots up, it loads the whole program from the hard disk through RAM. Its storage capabilities get larger the farther away it is from...
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...Abstract Computer architecture and its history are important to understanding how a computer works. The Von Neumann architecture is the basic building block to the modern day computer. There are different types of functions within the Von Neumann architecture that have helped create an efficient design and allow computers to perform multiple functions rather than being used for one specific purpose. The Von Neumann model uses memory, system buses, and Boolean operators to communicate programs and perform functions. Computer Architecture- Von Neumann Architecture Explained A computer is an electronic device that operates under the control of instructions that are stored in memory. The concept of storing memory or instructions within the computer came from John Von Neumann. Von Neumann architecture can be best described as a stored program design. A stored programmed design means that the program that operates the computer and the instructions that carry out the program are stored on the computer in one location, memory. By having a stored program design, the computer doesn’t have to go through a rigorous process to be reprogrammed, or to perform multiple functions. The basic design of today’s computers is founded on the architecture of Von Neumann, which can be referred to as the “fetch-execute cycle”. The Von Neumann model consists of five major components that work together to make the computer perform. There is an area for memory to be held and processed; today we know...
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