The plant used to be part of BAE Systems, building entire Jetstream aircraft until 1996.
At that time, Fiat was fiercely cutting costs by bringing everything from payroll systems to building maintenance in-house.
In fact, it signed up to a fixed-price contract to deliver the same trucks incumbent BAE Systems was building for 30 percent less per vehicle.
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Until recently, building automation, lighting controls, fire safety and other base building systems were designed and deployed to support a single building service and operated independently on proprietary network and cables.
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During the storm, water filled the basement of the Immigration Building, and there was also significant damage to mechanical systems and the building's fire suppression system.
However, where the government will not create such systems, industry can maintain its social license to operate by building such systems itself.
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Lee's home is a new-build, incorporating the latest in rainwater capture systems and sustainable building methods.
Verizon, Intel and Ridell are all building systems to help identify concussed players.
Most building systems operate independently, through a mix of vendors, and have different protocols and transport mechanisms.
In the factory, where the buildings are still being assembled around the clock by DeLuxe Building Systems Inc.
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United Technologies provides a broad range of high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries.
On the contrary, while base building systems have become more efficient, plug loads have done something closer to the opposite.
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These attacks expose the brittleness that comes from building systems that are too rigid, that make too many unchecked trust assumptions.
Smart software systems can analyze building information for trends and comparisons, and feed the results back into ever-improving energy reduction strategies.
The new frontier for enterprise software is building systems that conform and cater to the user and how they want to work.
Mr. Stewart made short-term profits by trading in firms such as NCI Building Systems Inc. that had a stake in energy legislation.
The third-largest stock the two own in common is USG Corp. ( USG) , a company that makes and distributes building systems through its U.S. subsidiaries.
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Such as building systems to make the company run smoother.
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We also looked at several groundbreaking building systems that stand to make our cities stronger and more sustainable, starting with a new type of flexible superglass that is stronger than steel.
By accepting them and building systems around them.
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Seemingly unconcerned with our hesitation, Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp. has announced that we'll be seeing these potential deathtraps commercially installed within the next few years, hopefully with the Otis-type hacks still fully functional.
The industry giants certainly know about and have products in this field, from Siemens to Honeywell, the latter notably with a 2005 acquisition of Tridium for its software that integrates diverse building systems and devices using a Web browser.
That said, if the process really can be made to work, CO2 would go from being a polluting waste product to a valuable raw material, and it might even become worthwhile building systems to capture it and pipelines to ship it around.
Krishnamurthy thinks big data is in many ways a reversion to the old IT approach of building systems and then letting users figure out what to do with them, instead of the standard approach of the last 15 to 20 years of gathering user requirements first.
When all the equipment in a building is fully networked and interactive, when building systems can react to internal and external changes and demands to traffic, pricing and preferences, and to safety threats and hazards--all effortlessly, seamlessly and, critically, in the background, in ways facilities' managers and homeowners will tolerate--true intelligence and true efficiency will have arrived to the chaotic building sector.
Temperature and carbon dioxide sensors can allow bulbs to deliver data to building management systems.
Like public key cryptography, Bitcoin is a fundamental new building block for building digital systems.
Because in the world I was in, building computer systems, determinism was the name of the game.
Investment banks are spending tens of millions of dollars on building sophisticated systems for managing client collateral.
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