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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

Moreover, driverless truck convoys will be safer and more fuel efficient than human-driven trucks. " The long-haul vehicles have the most to gain, both in terms of safety and economic benefits,” says Mike Baker, the chief engineer at Ricardo UK Ltd, the lead firm of SARTRE. It now seems very likely, if not a given.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! Ford or Tesla?

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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. 3 This was developed to provide better insights into how the heart operates and what happens when something goes wrong. .

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. Consider examples like data analysis experts, Google search engine advisors, and CRM strategists. Travel costs matter less than capabilities. . workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

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If We Are Doing So Great…Why is Morale So Low?

Peter Stark

I can travel all week doing presentations for clients. When I travel for two or three weeks in a row, I start to focus on the negative impact the travel is having on my body, my family and my team at work. Encourage innovation to ensure your processes are efficient and support today’s business needs.

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