From LEGO sets to enterprise IT equipment, examples abound of establishing a loyal customer base through the development of a flexible framework.
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Recognizing that these trends are here to stay, IT equipment manufacturers are innovating a new generation of data center, software tools, and networking products that are more energy-efficient than predecessors.
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The CEC recently gave itself permission to pursue new regulations for a wide range of high-tech consumer products and IT equipment, including computers, displays, game consoles, imaging equipment, servers and set-top boxes.
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While the massive and ambitious UPMC project involves a lot of sophisticated IT equipment, the ultimate value will be expressed in healthier patients, better-informed doctors and nurses, and lower healthcare costs, UPMC said.
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React to outside power grid risks and demand response requests: To reduce risk of application outages, data centers must be able to closely monitor the facility and surrounding environment as well as their IT equipment.
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It meant equipment that would normally automatically close the barriers had been switched off and was being operated manually by an attendant at the crossing.
To move that mountain, the military has three options: It can fly equipment out, move it south to Pakistani ports, or send it north through Central Asia.
Economists expect healthier output in 2013, partly because U.S. companies are sitting on large amounts of cash and appear poised to invest some of it in equipment and machinery.
The company is also talking to the export-credit agencies of countries that supply it with equipment (such as the United States) or that might import its oil (such as China).
Agencies should assess current device inventories and usage, and establish controls, to ensure that they are not paying for unused or underutilized information technology (IT) equipment, installed software, or services.
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It deployed equipment that automatically reports power cuts.
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The MPs also said the MoD was "juggling its budgets" because it is struggling to afford all the equipment it wants to buy.
The 230-year-old firm, based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, said it is mainly putting the money into new equipment it has developed.
There was some evidence that Lucent verbally promised it would buy back the equipment if it went unsold.
It is now installing equipment to enable it to make such backplanes at paperback (A5) size, and then plans to move on to 150ppi displays at magazine (A4) size.
Furthermore, since the US entered its period of very low interest rates we have seen that industrial production in business equipment has well outperformed that of consumer goods and indeed, it is business equipment that is driving what recovery we have.
If his invention works as he says it will, Intel could make a 20-gigahertz Pentium chip with the equipment it now uses to make a 2-gigahertz chip.
Another advantage for Hainan: it won't have to update its equipment because it will already be far ahead of the pack.
Aid To Hospitals Worldwide said it had exported 800 tonnes of re-conditioned equipment since it was set up in Bury St Edmunds ten years ago.
Such techniques have pushed the cost of carrying traffic on fiber down to about 1% of what it would cost on all-electronic equipment, and it will keep falling.
Shell had planned to have six new wells fully drilled in the Chuckchi Sea (Alaska) before year-end, but snafus when it tested spill containment equipment and the onset of the winter freeze left it with no wells completed.
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The outlook for business investment depends on whether it is for equipment or buildings.
It supplies all equipment and staff, and uploads the huge amounts of data to central processors.
And agency-level strategic sourcing of goods like IT and medical equipment have saved hundreds of millions more.
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This strength should continue to fuel investments in IT infrastructure and equipment purchases in the second half.
The automaker needs to recoup the enormous investments in plants and equipment it has already made before it starts consolidating vehicle development.
Although China runs a large trade surplus with America, it runs deficits with other Asian countries from which it imports capital equipment and components.
The U.S. gives Egypt hundreds of millions of dollars in additional military aid by offering it excess military equipment, such as radar systems, aircraft, and command vehicles.
For example, he said, when Tepco cleans the inside of the reactor, it uses specialized equipment and robots, but humans must manipulate them remotely and inevitably they get closer to radioactive material.
NATO, whose equipment it will need to borrow for even the modest Europeans-only missions it has in mind, and started mustering the 60, 000 troops it wants to have at the ready by 2003.
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