Applied Physics

BEIJING, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Italian Based Software Company, With Operations in Europe, USA, India and Japan and the Chinese Company Have Sealed a Strategic Deal to Become the Leading Supplier of Software Solutions for Manufacturers in China Think3 Inc. the only supplier to offer technology solutions that combine product concept, engineering and tooling environments, and Beijing Extech Science and Technology Co Ltd, a Chinese leading PLM software vendor, have announced the creation of a joint venture called EXTECH. This is supported by new investment in think3 from world leading…

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Founder and CEO Jeffrey Herzog to Serve as Vice Chairman iCrossing, a global digital marketing company, announced today that Don Scales, president, has taken on the additional role of CEO and will be responsible for worldwide operations for the company. Previously, Scales served as president and COO of iCrossing. iCrossing founder and CEO Jeffrey Herzog will continue to guide the strategic direction of the company as vice chairman of iCrossing's board of directors. Herzog founded iCrossing in 1998. The company has grown from its roots as a search…

TROY, Michigan, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Newest version of Altair's simulation platform delivers on-demand access to ISV applications and offers multi-core licensing business model Altair Engineering, a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the release of Altair HyperWorks 9.0, the next generation of its popular integrated suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software applications. HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation platform to support product lifecycle management (PLM) processes. It is the leading simulation-…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonium, the Swedish tech company behind Pacemaker, the pocket-sized DJ system, has announced the launch of the Pacemaker music community. Hosted on www.pacemaker.net , the Pacemaker music community allows members to upload and legally share the mixes of their music, created by them using a Pacemaker or the free Pacemaker Editor software. The Pacemaker music community is the next step in the evolution in social networking. Thanks to a unique licensing agreement with music rights societies, STIM ( www.stim.se ) and IFPI ( www.ifpi.se ), Tonium is the…

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays. The breakthrough in laser technology, based upon commercially available nanotechnology, has the potential to become a standard Terahertz source to support applications ranging from security screening to chemical sensing. Spearheaded by research associate Mikhail Belkin and Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical…

CRANBURY, New Jersey, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Belgium office further enhances support and deployment of customers' packaging operations Systech International, the innovator of packaging execution systems (PES) for the pharmaceutical industry, today announced the opening of its international headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The new office compliments its U.K.-based operations and will further enable its sales and professional services teams to readily oversee in-region deployments. On May 21st and 22nd, Systech will host an open house for all of its customers to tour the state-of-the-art…

LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - E3 Academy Enterprise Welcomed by CBI Director-General as Engineering Graduate Numbers hit Crisis Point The E3 Academy, an engineering industry initiative to encourage more students to choose engineering related degree courses, has been launched today - Friday May 16th at the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) in London. The launch was attended by Richard Lambert, Director-General, CBI, who gave a keynote speech supportive of the work and objectives of the E3 Academy. The number of engineering students has continued to fall year on year, from…

MIT engineers have created ultrathin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation. The inexpensive, easy-to-produce films could provide a valuable layer of protection for the health care industry by helping to reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections, which take the lives of 100,000 people and cost the United States an estimated $4.5 billion annually. The researchers found they could control the extent of bacterial adhesion to surfaces by manipulating the mechanical stiffness of polymer films called…

MOSCOW, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces a new appointment to the management at its Southern Kuzbass OAO coal mining subsidiary. Victor Skulditskiy (50), who previously held the position of Director of Coal Concentration and Processing Division, was appointed Managing Director of Southern Kuzbass OAO. Mr. Skulditskiy succeeded Sergei Popov, who was Acting Managing Director and now becomes the First Deputy Managing Director - Director for Operations. Previously, Mr. Skulditskiy was Director of Southern Kuzbass OAO…

Six Sigma is a business strategy designed to use smarter data and methodology to reduce defects - six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit. Statistically it is 3.4 defects per million. Could this business practice be used to help turn companies green by reducing their energy use? According to mechanical engineer Prabhakar Kaushik of NC College of Engineering in Haryana, India, and colleagues, energy conservation should be at the forefront of company efforts. In a global economy with environmental pressures high on the agenda, organizations are under…