"As in the car industry for quite some time, dynamic simulation of complete vehicles is being practiced more and more in the development of off-road machinery. However, specific questions arise due not only to company structure and size, but especially to the type of product. Tightly coupled, non-linear subsystems of different domains make prediction and optimisation of the complete system's dynamic behaviour a challenge. Furthermore, the demand for versatile machines leads to sometimes contradictory target requirements and can turn the design process into a hunt for the least painful compromise. This can be avoided by profound system knowledge, assisted by simulation-driven product development. This paper gives an overview of joint research into this issue by Volvo Wheel Loaders and Linkoping University on that matter, lists the results of a related literature review and introduces the term "operateability". Rather than giving detailed answers, the problem space for ongoing and future research is examined and possible solutions are sketched."

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"Up until World War I, the archetypal manufacturing CEO was production oriented—usually an engineer or inventor of some kind. Even as late as the 1930s, business school curriculums focused mostly on production. Khurana notes that many schools during this era had mini-factories on campus to train future managers."

"Unless we want to keep America from moving up the value chain, we will have less manufacturing.

True enough, especially since China consolidated a lot of lower-end manufacturing from a lot of neighboring Asian states, becoming the final assembler of note.

The opposing school of thought says we must retain our industrial base or lose our fundamentals--as it were.

But here's the trick with the manufacturing lobby: many produce in China as well as the U.S."

"Chinese police are investigating the case, including whether or not Sun was brutalized. But the Chinese media and bloggers have surged to the case as a sign of workplace pressure gone awry. They have posted what they say is a Foxconn confidentiality and non-compete agreement, which promises fines for workers who break it. More fundamentally, they have enshrined the story of Sun Danyong as a bitter symbol of China’s industrial age."

"Think it can't be done? Surprise: What is past is prologue.
Great Britain faced an existential threat back in the 1940s in the form of the overwhelming Nazi military juggernaut that conquered all of continental Europe. Hitler then blockaded and prepared to invade isolated England.
Without enough metal to re-build new airplanes with, England turned to home wood workers and small furniture builders to build a wood-bodied, twin engine light fighter bomber that became known as the de Havilland Mosquito. The resulting plane became the fastest (>400 mph) bomber of the war and contributed in large part to eventual Allied victory. 7,800 wooden planes were made."

Something I had no idea about.

"Maybe someday we’ll think of soap that isn’t anti-bacterial as a high-quality, artisanal product."

"Of course it’s crazy to imagine retargeting our industrial capacity in such dramatic fashion, and turning it on a dime, isn’t it?

Not necessarily. For months I’ve been meaning to blog a segment from a Lester Brown podcast, which I can’t find now, but here’s the same point from his book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization:..."

"A warning from Sunpower (SPWRA) last week is a sign that big solar companies are in trouble. US solar demand will not catch up in 2 years, even with solar tax credits in place. Overall, the solar sector may have some weakness in the short term, though I remain bullish long term."

"Wind power generating capacity has been growing quickly in the U.S. In 2007, wind capacity grew by 46%, adding 16 million megawatt-hours of electricity to our annual production. The wind turbines were manufactured by seven companies."

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