Sep 20, 2019 | Tech
HELSINKI, Finland (September 19, 2019) – Tech company CollectiveCrunch has launched its ground-breaking forestry AI platform Linda Forest for commercial use.
The launch took place at the Digital Excellence Forum, an EU event on digitalization, held in Helsinki on September 19, 2019.
“Digital Excellence Forum is about digitalization and its forerunners in every industry. It felt like a natural place for us to launch the leading AI product in forest inventories and the digitalization of the forestry industry,” CollectiveCrunch”s CEO and Co-founder Rolf Schmitz says, speaking at the event.
CollectiveCrunch is an AI leader in the forestry industry. The company collects climate, geo and process data and crunches this information into AI models for better prediction of forest inventories and forest management parameters. Linda Forest”s current users include forest management companies, forest funds and wood product companies. They use it to make better buying and selling decisions, use wood-based raw material more efficiently, and reduce their costs. “It could also be used to predict the risk of forest fires,” Rolf Schmitz adds, giving an interesting look into potential future uses of the product.
The largest AI initiative in forestry
Earlier this year, CollectiveCrunch successfully raised a total of EUR 600,000 and won a competitive bid at Metsähallitus, the company responsible for the Finnish state”s land assets and managing one third of Finland”s surface area. The two companies aim to improve harvesting and forest development planning through deep learning and big data analysis.
“We believe this to be the largest AI initiative in the forestry sector globally. Results from this close partnership will have a huge impact to the industry as a whole and benefit many across the value chain by utilizing Linda Forest,” says CollectiveCrunch”s Chief Product Officer Jarkko Lipponen. Currently, CollectiveCrunch is focused on the Nordic and Baltic markets, although long-term plans involve adopting the solution to Northern America, Russia and other forestry markets.
One of their clients is Setra, a large Swedish wood product company. According to Setra”s CDO, Axel Simonsson, they have been very happy with the progress of the on-going pilot project. “CollectiveCrunch has acted as a change agent between us and our supplier, making us think outside the box,” he describes.
Sep 19, 2019 | Business
The swiss company HTS Global AG produces high quality heating cables for any kind of heating application. Their brand ThermTrace is very well received within the industry and ranks among the top heating cable brands. Fabian de Soet, CEO of HTS Global AG says that the company serves the needs of each individual customer.
It is not only the high quality of the brand ThermTrace that gave HTS Global AG its good reputation, it is also due to the delivery of great personal customer service. The customer is rather seen as a partner, than just someone purchasing products. No matter what the customer’s concern in terms of the product and the handling of it are, HTS Global AG always handels the customer’s enquirie with care. It is no surprise, the customers stay loyal to HTS Global AG.
Working on a global scale, HTS Global AG has positioned itself with offices in Switzerland and Germany as well as in the UK and the United States, serving customers all over the world.
All of the heat tracing solutions fulfill international quality standards for both hazardous and safe areas. HTS Global AG and its professionally trained partners in various countries provide marketing, distribution and customer service for our entire heat tracing product range.
The ThermTrace series of heating tapes includes a complete collection of self-regulating products. Starting with heating cables for very small piping systems with special applications, HTS Global AG also provides high-end industrial grade cables for temperatures up to 240 ° C.
In addition to the self-regulating cables, HTS offers constant wattage cables as well as a broad variety of accessories. ThermTrace products offer solutions for all kinds of temperature ranges and applications, says Fabian de Soet.
If you have any questions about ThermTrace, the team of HTS Global AG is happy to help you. You can also find their current product range online on www.hts-global.com.
Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Las Vegas, Nevada – September 19, 2019
The manufacturer Mods4cars has announced the SmartTOP additional cabriolet top control for the new BMW Z4 (G29). The clever convertible module will be available before the end of this year. The SmartTOP module enables the convertibles top to be opened and closed while driving with One-Touch. The tedious continuous pressing on the tops button is thereby eliminated.
In addition to simpler convertible top operation from inside the vehicle, the top can also be opened and closed from a distance using the existing vehicles remote control with One-Touch. For this, a press on the button on the vehicles key is all that is needed. No changes to the vehicles remote control is required for this function.
The following additional functions will also be included: Windows can be opened and closed via the vehicles key. It will be possible to reverse the operating direction of the convertibles top button. The Valet Mode will prevent the convertibles top from being operated via the interior button and the remote control. This allows the top to be completely locked when a third party is using the vehicle.
“We are pleased that we will soon be able to offer our SmartTOP convertible module for the BMW Z4 (G29), which was presented a few months ago. Our customers will be able to enjoy the advantages of our sophisticated comfort modules as of the coming convertible season,” explains PR spokesman Sven Tornow. “Also the installation of our latest product is child’s play. A precision fitting adapter set ensures a simple plug-in connection between the vehicle electronics and the SmartTOP module,” Sven Tornow continues.
SmartTOP convertible top controls are available for the following brands: Alfa, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, Volkswagen and Volvo. The following BMW models are also supported: BMW 1 Series, 3 Series, 4 Series and 6 Series Convertible as well as Z4 and Mini.
A first Demo video can be viewed here:
For more Information:
http://www.mods4cars.com
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Sep 18, 2019 | Tech
A t bend system developed by transfluid enables the processing of tubes of up to 60 mm with a bending radius of 1 x D. Most of the tubes produced in this case have two or three bends, with the cut made straight after the last bend or between two bends. No additional follow-up cuts are required. The bending machine for this solution features a centre-line booster and three bending planes, plus the plane where the cutting tool is used.
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Advanced Fabricating Machinery
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Sep 18, 2019 | Tech
Rome (Italy), September 18, 2019 – Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a global data center solution provider, announced the availability of its comprehensive systems featuring AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors. With the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors on QuantaGrid and QuantaPlex servers, customers get a new level of integration and performance for their modern data centers. QCT joined AMD”s European customer event from 17. – 19.September at the Sheraton Parco de´ Medici hotel in Rome (Italy). In addition to keynote addresses by industry speakers, general sessions and panel discussions with experts and data center customers as well as an AMD demo and partner zone, suppliers like QCT showcased innovative solutions based on the 2nd Gen EPYC processors.
QCT”s Total Cloud Solutions based on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors make data centers more responsive to today”s workload demands and are focused to address those coming in the future. These 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ based solutions are set to deliver a new standard for data centers customers. With up to twice the number of cores compared to the 1st Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, and built on the 7nm process technology, QCT has already seen over 2x performance improvement on CPU and memory processing over its products using the 1st Gen EPYC. QCT”s products also feature serviceability options such as tool-less, modularized, and hot swappable components that are straightforward and practically leave no downtime as technicians don”t need to remove a whole chassis from the rack.
“QCT is always looking to help our customers adapt quickly to changing workload needs,” said Mike Yang, President of QCT. “Therefore, together with AMD, we are delivering innovations combining all the advantages of AMD EPYC processors with our comprehensive, consistent designs to allow our customers to transform their infrastructure with the right resources to drive performance and reduce bottlenecks.”
“Driven by AMD”s history of data center innovation, including adopting 7nm process technology, the first x86 server chip supplier to support PCIe 4.0, and embedded security features, the AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors set a new standard for the modern data center,” said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “Together, these innovations deliver the breakthrough performance customers need.”
With this launch, QCT is combining its ultimate compute and storage density with AMD EPYC™ processor breakthrough CPU performance. QCT worked on the designs for these 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors ahead of others and was one of the first to power on these processors. The culmination is a series of scalable configurations fully optimized for PCIe® 4.0 and diversified I/O options for not only AI workloads, but also CDN, and Big Data.
QCT Servers featuring the AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors are as follows:
– QuantaGrid D43K-1U – designed to unleash the power with dual AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors. Featuring up to 4TB memory capacity, 5 expansion slots, and single width GPU support within a 1U chassis.
– QuantaGrid D43KQ-2U – powered by dual AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors supporting up to 10 PCIe® 4.0 expansion slots and capabilities. It features two dual-width GPU accelerators with optimized thermal conditions, 24 U.2 NVMe drives, and tool-less/hot swappable serviceability components found in all QCT rackmount servers.
– QuantaGrid S43KL-1U – is a single socket AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processor compute server, featuring up to 2TB memory capacity, up to 12 NVMe SSDs and 5 expansion slots to challenge the tradition dual socket data center systems. It also supports single width GPU and PCIe® 4.0.
– QuantaGrid D42A-2U – is a single socket AMD EPYC™ processor storage server designed for intense storage I/O, perfect for SDS, CDN, and a variety of database workloads. Support for up to 24 U.2 NVMe SSDs and multiple high speed NICs also make this the perfect NVMeoF target.
– QuantaPlex S43CA-2U – is a multi-node single socket server that supports the AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors. Each of the 4 nodes in this compact 2U chassis is capable of supporting the top bin 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors, boasting a dominant 64-cores along with 16 DIMM slots that can meet the most intense computing environment needs.
QCT, as a technology partner, attended this event to showcase its new solutions and to show how their innovations are taking advantage of the enhancements and capabilities found in the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
For more details visit: https://go.qct.io/EPYC
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