Move goods rapidly and economically with transportation technologies.
Whatever your product, the transportation logistics of getting it into the hands of your customers rapidly, cost-effectively, and intact are key to your bottom-line profits. Having effective transportation technology in place ensures that you can get finished goods from Point A to Point Z. Making smart decisions about the process can give you a competitive edge over others who manufacture similar products.
Though technology and transportation might seem like a playing field for the big guys, small businesses can benefit too from shaking up the distribution process. Even familiar names in “getting it there” are mainstreaming transportation software and technology that can accelerate your product to the end user.
The challenge lies in first evaluating your needs and then choosing the process that offers the best transportation technologies to get the job done.
To maximize transportation technology benefits, you’ll want to:
1. Consider hiring a consultant skilled in transportation logistics.
2. Consider the benefits of turning the process over to a third-party provider
3. Look into transportation technology that will lower your cost-per-unit.
4. Explore online transportation technologies for scheduling, shipping and tracking your goods.
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Consider hiring a transportation logistics consultant
Consultants knowledgeable about what it takes to get goods to the end-user can be a valuable resource if you want to keep that process in-house. They can evaluate your current systems and tell you how best to store, package and move out your goods using transportation technologies.
I recommend: Check out transportation logistics and supply chain consultants like Chainalytics, The Progress Group and CTST Supply Chain Experts. Ramp up the search process by doing a fast hunt for transportation consultants at eWork Markets, then post your project for a quick connect.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
THE FUTURE of CYBER-SEX and RELATIONSHIP FIDELITY:
A Brave New World Booklet by Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.*
Rapid Growth of Technology.
The combination of the telephone and the Internet will provide more uses and conveniences than imagined just ten years ago. The telephone is likely to be the pivotal technology, so that people will have personal numbers that can be taken with them as they transfer from job to job, and home to home. It is already possible to use the telephone for receiving email messages and surfing the net. Mobile phone carriers now allow you to pick a variety of news, sports, weather, and stock market reports several times a day. Telephones and Internet services are merging, bringing increased opportunities for virtual lovers to be in email or voicemail contact through telephones.
Email messages are less intrusive than telephone calls or answering machines. They can be read at the recipient's convenience, even in an open area with people nearby. With an increase in the number of people who check cell phones for messages while waiting for other events to occur, several messages from a virtual lover can be received and reciprocated in the course of a normal business day, perhaps even during a business meeting. Just as people check their watches, they can check their email via pager or cell phone during a conversational lull.
The emergence of the wireless Web will make contact with virtual lovers or cyber-sex material possible anytime, anywhere. For purposes of this article, cybersex is defined as occurring when computerized content is used for sexual stimulation. It involves two or more people exciting one another sexually through text, sounds, or images obtained from software or the Internet. Many companies are installing transmitters in airports, business areas, and stores, which will offer high-speed Internet access within a certain range. A laptop computer will only need a transmission card to connect, and a monthly fee will be paid by subscribers. Gas stations may soon double as favorite places to write an email love note to that special someone, and a traffic jam may no longer be a waste of time.
A Brave New World Booklet by Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.*
Rapid Growth of Technology.
The combination of the telephone and the Internet will provide more uses and conveniences than imagined just ten years ago. The telephone is likely to be the pivotal technology, so that people will have personal numbers that can be taken with them as they transfer from job to job, and home to home. It is already possible to use the telephone for receiving email messages and surfing the net. Mobile phone carriers now allow you to pick a variety of news, sports, weather, and stock market reports several times a day. Telephones and Internet services are merging, bringing increased opportunities for virtual lovers to be in email or voicemail contact through telephones.
Email messages are less intrusive than telephone calls or answering machines. They can be read at the recipient's convenience, even in an open area with people nearby. With an increase in the number of people who check cell phones for messages while waiting for other events to occur, several messages from a virtual lover can be received and reciprocated in the course of a normal business day, perhaps even during a business meeting. Just as people check their watches, they can check their email via pager or cell phone during a conversational lull.
The emergence of the wireless Web will make contact with virtual lovers or cyber-sex material possible anytime, anywhere. For purposes of this article, cybersex is defined as occurring when computerized content is used for sexual stimulation. It involves two or more people exciting one another sexually through text, sounds, or images obtained from software or the Internet. Many companies are installing transmitters in airports, business areas, and stores, which will offer high-speed Internet access within a certain range. A laptop computer will only need a transmission card to connect, and a monthly fee will be paid by subscribers. Gas stations may soon double as favorite places to write an email love note to that special someone, and a traffic jam may no longer be a waste of time.
Monday, November 2, 2009
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY
What is Technology?
What Counts as Technology?
Throughout the twentieth century the uses of the term have increased to the point where it now encompasses a number of “classes” of technology:
1. Technology as Objects:
Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the physical devices of technical performance
2. Technology as Knowledge:
The know-how behind technological innovation
3. Technology as Activities:
What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines
4. Technology as a Process:
Begins with a need and ends with a solution
5. Technology as a Sociotechnical System:
The manufacture and use of objects involving people and other objects in combination
The Nature of Technology
Technology has a number of distinct characteristics:
1. It is Related to Science?
Although there is certainly a relationship between science and technology, there is, except in certain high technology industries, very little technology that could be classified as applied science. Technology is marked by different purposes, different processes a different relationship to established knowledge and a particular relationship to specific contexts of activity. Change in the material environment is the explicit purpose of technology, and not, as is the case with science, the understanding of nature; accordingly its solutions are not right or wrong, verifiable or falsifiable, but more or less effective from different points of view.
2. It Involves Design
At the centre of technology lies design. That “design is the very core of engineering” is affirmed by the requirement that all degree engineering courses should embody it. The design process in technology is a sequential process which begins with the perception of a need, continues with the formulation of a specification, the generation of ideas and a final solution, and ends with an evaluation of the solution.
3. It Involves Making
The motivating factor behind all technological activity is the desire to fulfil a need. For this reason all designs should be made or realised - whether that be through prototype, batch- or mass- production or some form of three-dimensional or computer model - if the need is to be truly fulfilled, the design is to be legitimately evaluated, and the design activity is to have been purposeful and worthwhile.
4. It is Multi-Dimensional
Not only may design and production involve co-operation between different specialisms (between, for example, designer, production engineer and materials scientist), but may involve “technologists” in performing a multitude of functions, such as working with others, operating within budgets, persuading decision makers, communicating to clients and working to deadlines.
5. It Is Concerned With Values
Technology is informed by values at every point. Value decisions may be called for not only in relation to the specific design criteria (i.e. aesthetic, ergonomic and economic judgements, suitability for purpose and ease of manufacture) but also in relation to the rightness or wrongness of a particular solution in ethical terms.
6. It is Socially Shaped/Shaping
Technological enterprises are determined not by advances in knowledge nor simply by the identification of needs, but by social interests. Of the potential new technologies available at any one time only a few are developed and become widely implemented. In this way technology is shaped by society, by consumer choice. yet it could also be argued that technology shapes society - the technology of the motor car, for example, has shaped our environment and our whole way of life.
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The AIM Lab
Science and New Technology Concept Map
What is a Technological System?
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Manufacturing Systems
Construction Systems
Communication Systems
Transportation Systems
What Counts as Technology?
Throughout the twentieth century the uses of the term have increased to the point where it now encompasses a number of “classes” of technology:
1. Technology as Objects:
Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the physical devices of technical performance
2. Technology as Knowledge:
The know-how behind technological innovation
3. Technology as Activities:
What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines
4. Technology as a Process:
Begins with a need and ends with a solution
5. Technology as a Sociotechnical System:
The manufacture and use of objects involving people and other objects in combination
The Nature of Technology
Technology has a number of distinct characteristics:
1. It is Related to Science?
Although there is certainly a relationship between science and technology, there is, except in certain high technology industries, very little technology that could be classified as applied science. Technology is marked by different purposes, different processes a different relationship to established knowledge and a particular relationship to specific contexts of activity. Change in the material environment is the explicit purpose of technology, and not, as is the case with science, the understanding of nature; accordingly its solutions are not right or wrong, verifiable or falsifiable, but more or less effective from different points of view.
2. It Involves Design
At the centre of technology lies design. That “design is the very core of engineering” is affirmed by the requirement that all degree engineering courses should embody it. The design process in technology is a sequential process which begins with the perception of a need, continues with the formulation of a specification, the generation of ideas and a final solution, and ends with an evaluation of the solution.
3. It Involves Making
The motivating factor behind all technological activity is the desire to fulfil a need. For this reason all designs should be made or realised - whether that be through prototype, batch- or mass- production or some form of three-dimensional or computer model - if the need is to be truly fulfilled, the design is to be legitimately evaluated, and the design activity is to have been purposeful and worthwhile.
4. It is Multi-Dimensional
Not only may design and production involve co-operation between different specialisms (between, for example, designer, production engineer and materials scientist), but may involve “technologists” in performing a multitude of functions, such as working with others, operating within budgets, persuading decision makers, communicating to clients and working to deadlines.
5. It Is Concerned With Values
Technology is informed by values at every point. Value decisions may be called for not only in relation to the specific design criteria (i.e. aesthetic, ergonomic and economic judgements, suitability for purpose and ease of manufacture) but also in relation to the rightness or wrongness of a particular solution in ethical terms.
6. It is Socially Shaped/Shaping
Technological enterprises are determined not by advances in knowledge nor simply by the identification of needs, but by social interests. Of the potential new technologies available at any one time only a few are developed and become widely implemented. In this way technology is shaped by society, by consumer choice. yet it could also be argued that technology shapes society - the technology of the motor car, for example, has shaped our environment and our whole way of life.
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Links
What is Technology?
Ed Dean
ECMS Technology Education Room
John Martin
Massachusetts Department of Education
Michael Scott
Ohio State University
Trenton State College
The Virtual Library
Diagrammatic Representations of Technology
The AIM Lab
Science and New Technology Concept Map
What is a Technological System?
The Virtual Library
Manufacturing Systems
Construction Systems
Communication Systems
Transportation Systems
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