"It just shows how bad things look for equipment demand in general, " Twigg said.

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"Everybody thinks it's neat, " says Jeffrey Zimmer, general manager of Fallsway Equipment in Akron, Ohio, which sells the Sidewinder.

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Panda then bought some old metal-stamping equipment from a plant that General Motors was shutting down in Ohio.

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The Japanese company is using General Electric engines in some of its latest equipment, even as Cat works with Mitsubishi Electric to power one of its forthcoming lines.

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"Because of the potential risk to the general public, this document also addresses biomedical equipment turned in to the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, " Langston said.

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This new research, then, will serve multiple functions: Using specialized sensors, processors, and algorithms, the project team will measure noise in real time, tracking both the noise generated by various pieces of wave energy equipment and general background noise.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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His was one of nine electrocution deaths in Iraq blamed on "improper grounding or faulty equipment, " according to a Pentagon inspector-general's report released Monday.

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