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Saitech Inc. is proud to announce, for a second year in a row, their place on the prestigious Inc. 5000 yearly list of awardees.  They are humbly grateful to all their employees, partnerships, and last but not least their customers. They are ranked 22nd in the nation in the Computer Hardware category.  They will continue to strive to grow with the strength of their business relationships in the IT industry.

VIMANA, The Language of Smart Manufacturing, is proud to announce William Sobel's participation in the Smart Manufacturing Experience. William Sobel, VIMANA's CSO and Founder, is the author of the MTConnect Standard and continues to participate in revolutionizing the collection and analysis of data that is driving the new era of manufacturing intelligence and analytics.

vimana by System Insights was featured as one of the most important new platforms in the recent issue of M2M NOW. vimana provides the industry’s first Big Data platform specifically designed for manufacturing. The article, authored by industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, noted with the sudden interest in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing has finally received the attention it deserves. Even without the love of the technology companies, manufacturers were still able to produce amazing amounts of high quality products with incredible accuracy; there is a lot of room for improvement. According to Cisco, by 2017 there will be 1.7 billion wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) connections across the supply chain. They also estimate that smart factory technology can create US$1.95 trillion in value by 2022 by improving control, agility, and flexibility in the manufacturing processes. This is money saved by the industry because of more efficient practices; the improvement is a return on investment – which considers the cost of the technology.

System Insights announced that Hartzell Propeller Inc. selected vimana as their manufacturing software platform for improving shop floor production efficiency. Hartzell Propeller Inc. is the global leader in advanced aircraft propeller and airplane propeller design and aircraft propeller and airplane propeller manufacturing technology. Because of their concentration and commitment to propeller driven aviation, they are the supplier of choice for nearly every major aircraft manufacturer.

Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights, explained the project his organization ran under contract from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in a recent issue of Plant Services. Sobel noted, “When we tested the failure scenarios at NIST, we found the system to be very resilient. Since each device can determine if it can recover from an alarm or error, there is no need for a central system to arbitrate simple situations like out of material or a dropped work piece.”

As with many industries African Americans have had to work a bit longer and harder to gain notice, and the writing industry has proved to be no different. The early published works of most African Americans writers of all genres were published under pen names, and were written from a perspective that would not give the reader a clue of the ethnicity or culture of the author.

vimana by System Insights was featured as one of the most important new platforms in the current issue of M2M NOW. vimana provides the industry’s first Big Data platform specifically designed for manufacturing. The article, authored by industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, noted with the sudden interest in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing has finally received the attention it deserves. Even without the love of the technology companies, manufacturers were still able to produce amazing amounts of high quality products with incredible accuracy; there is a lot of room for improvement. According to Cisco, by 2017 there will be 1.7 billion wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) connections across the supply chain. They also estimate that smart factory technology can create US$1.95 trillion in value by 2022 by improving control, agility, and flexibility in the manufacturing processes. This is money saved by the industry because of more efficient practices; the improvement is a return on investment – which considers the cost of the technology.

Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights said, “To achieve a true 4.0 revolution, we will need to instrument and collect huge amounts of data from machine tools and tie the success of the process, quality, into a feedback loop to identify where in the process defects were introduced. The defect detection must be done as close as possible to point at which the defect was introduced so there is the least amount of interference that may make attribution more complex. “

The recent hot topic for the venture capitalists and the industry visionaries is the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Will Sobel, CEO with System Insights, “They have suddenly realized there are more things than people, and unlike people, things produce data. Things are the new buzzwords, but nobody has figured out how to make real money from things or what is the value of a thing. Manufacturing keeps coming up as an area of focus, but again, while the broad strokes are there, the ideas are not grounded. There has been a lot of focus on security and protocols, very necessary, but less focus on how to generate the business value from things.”

According to the United States Census Bureau, in November 2013, America increased exports to $194.9 billion, an increase of $1.8 billion over the previous month. Increases occurred in industries such as capital goods and industrial supplies and materials while decreases were seen in consumer goods as well as foods, feeds, and beverages. "With increases such as this, companies involved in international trade need to ensure they retain the services of a firm specializing in export control compliance as trade legal and regulatory requirements are continuously changing and non-compliance can be costly," Jennifer Kessinger of Global Trade Expertise declares.

Longevity welding equipment if well known for providing numerous welding machines and is presently promoting a new range of stick welders for sale. Unlike other manufacturers, Longevity Stick Welders have portability and power in mind. Longevity stick welders are efficient when welding rusted or painted metals. Stick Welding or shielded metal arc welding are ideal solutionsfor industrial welds and are enhancing the productivity for users by reducing operating cost and overhead expenses. Longevity welders can handle all 6010, 6010, 6013, 7018 welding rods, and will benefit the customer.

The iEnvision Group, LLC, a pharmaceutical consulting / marketing company, based in the Silicon Valley of N. California, announced ?today? its? OFFICIAL? launch of its new, innovative drug formulary platform, MyVirtualFormulary.com (MVF) . This virtual, novel, cloud-based platform enables Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners access to current pharmaceutical information online anytime they need, without having to wait for a pharmaceutical representative or be interrupted in their office by a telemarketer. The physician can request samples, ask to attend an informational program, report to the pharmaceutical company any adverse events, view regulatory approved product presentations, analyze clinical information, and much more. Both platforms can be accessed by any computer, iPad, iPhone or Android / Microsoft / Google operating devices, all on the customers schedule, 24/7/365. Virtually anything that a live sales representative can do, MyVirtualSalesRep.com can do better and more efficiently.

San Ramon Dentist Victoria Dillingham announces milestone achievement of five thousand successfully treated patients. To celebrate, Dr. Victoria Dillingham, DDS is offering new patients without insurance an $89 Special, which includes cleaning, necessary X-Rays, oral examination & treatment consultation. And now through February 28, 2014, Dr. Dillingham includes FREE whitening gel.

The British Hernia Society invited sports hernia diagnosis and management experts to contribute to a consensus conference held in October 2012. A physiotherapist, a musculoskeletal radiologist and 150 surgeons were on hand to present and share their individual experiences with sports hernias. Following the conference, the Society concluded that a sports hernia should be referred to as an inguinal disruption (ID) because no true hernia is present in this common condition afflicting athletes.

System Insights, based in Berkeley, California, with offices in Chennai, India, is a leading global supplier of manufacturing software in both machining based, discrete and process industries. The SI flagship product - vimana - delivers predictive analytics solutions to improve clients’ efficiency, productivity, and profitability. vimana provides these data while enabling customers to realize sustainable manufacturing objectives. The vimana software platform delivers a unique combination of Cloud Computing and Big Data capabilities that sets out to revolutionize the economics of manufacturing. System Insights is a proud member of both AMT (Association for Manufacturing Technology) and NTMA (National Tooling and Machining Association).

Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights argued, “Intelligent applications can become a virtual machinist by learning best practices from the shop floor and then guiding machines and employees as it determines how to optimize the process. These technologies seem very futuristic to many manufacturers, but most of what is needed is available today in the form of sensors and data analytics. We need to do some intense research to determine how to filter the signals to best find the value in the noise.”

Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights recently shared, “The combination of MTConnect with vimana is a perfect example of a safe and secure Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) system. Using read only data from the devices that is compressed and encrypted and using a sophisticated analytics platform like vimana that can contextualize and interpret the patterns in the data with specific rules for each device and process allows us to provide immense amounts of business value with little risk of data getting intercepted or stolen and no risk of safety for the operators of the devices.”

A machinist is a person who can manually make parts using machine tools. The role is considered different, especially by expert machinists, than operators since they have honed their skills and has the ability to understand when the machine is operating correctly using their training and experience. The machinist often considers themselves an artist and their skills and training allow them to create remarkably complex parts with high accuracy.

According to Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights, “The issue with the industrial solutions is the data used to make decisions and coordinate actives on the shop floor is almost always lost. No record is kept of the movements of a robot or a machine tool since this is considered a byproduct of the process. What now realized is the data produced by these processes has the potential to unlock the hidden potential to improve efficiency and reduce machine downtimes.”

The recent hot topic for the venture capitalists and the industry visionaries is the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Will Sobel, CEO with System Insights, “They have suddenly realized there are more things than people, and unlike people, things produce data. Things are the new buzzwords, but nobody has figured out how to make real money from things or what is the value of a thing. Manufacturing keeps coming up as an area of focus, but again, while the broad strokes are there, the ideas are not grounded. There has been a lot of focus on security and protocols, very necessary, but less focus on how to generate the business value from things.”

Case & Point, which aims to serve indigent people who have been put on trial and lack the resources to utilize computer forensic evidence in their own defense, is pleased to announce that they have begun a campaign on Indiegogo.com to help raise funds to implement the initial infrastructure required to set up digital forensics lab. Case & Point is asking for $9,000 to obtain the necessary software and certain peripherals that are specific to digital forensics in a social justice cause.

The promise of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and the sudden interest and enthusiasm in industrial automation come from a realization that the manufacturing domain is one of the most dynamic and economically valuable areas that has been underserved by our technology advancements. System Insights had this revelation in 2009 after the founders were instrumental in the development of the MTConnect standard.

Will Sobel, CEO of System Insights recently shared, “The combination of MTConnect with vimana is a perfect example of a safe and secure Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) system. Using read only data from the devices that is compressed and encrypted and using a sophisticated analytics platform like vimana that can contextualize and interpret the patterns in the data with specific rules for each device and process allows us to provide immense amounts of business value with little risk of data getting intercepted or stolen and no risk of safety for the operators of the devices.”

Great, hardworking employees are the most important assets of any organization. A good employee brings a wealth of gainful knowledge, experiences and skills to a firm which makes such a person an irreplaceable paragon for any firm. Recently a bright new mind has emerged in the world of business and is currently seeking an internship in one of the highly reputable, top companies in the United States where he can have the opportunity to implement his knowledge and experience to effectively participate in the development of the organization.

Ms. Mulholland is the author of two novels for the young adult audience: “This Girl Climbs Trees” and “Birds on a Wire”. Logos has released a reformatted second edition of Mulholland’s first novel, “This Girl Climbs Trees”.

System Insights, the leading global supplier of manufacturing software in machining based, discrete and process industries, developed an R-package called the ‘vrtk,’ essentially a set of tools for reading and working with data from the vimana platform. William Sobel, CEO of System Insights explained in the company’s blog, “‘vrtk’ is short for ‘vimana Research ToolKit’ or ‘vimana R ToolKit’. It is intended to be an open-source set of the basic tools needed to read and work with data. It is built to work with manufacturing data obtained from System Insights. The motivation behind the project is simple -- to facilitate research using data obtained using the vimana platform. Anyone, in the possession of vimana data should not have to reinvent the wheel in trying to import it into R in the right formats, converting timestamps. This is where the vrtk comes into the picture.”

According to manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, in the current issue of Industrial Automation, “OEE is a composite metric, combining machine availability, part quality, and schedule adherence. At best, OEE conflates each of these individual aspects of productivity, and at worst, OEE incorrectly inflates a device's productivity by one of the three metrics, overwhelming the others.” System Insights is profiled as a fast-paced, ever-changing company of automation impacting manufacturing, material handling, and logistics.