#manually operated digital spring testing machine

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Manually Operated Digital Spring Testing Machine

Manually Operated Digital Spring Testing Machine is mainly used for the testing of conventional mechanical performance indicators of various springs and gas springs for tension and compression purpose. The professionally designed automatic control and data acquisition system realizes the full digital adjustment of the data acquisition and control process. The equipment is suitable for petrochemical, automobile manufacturing, spring factory, plastic and rubber, pharmaceutical packaging, engine and other manufacturing industries and product quality supervision departments at all levels, and is also suitable for teaching demonstration work in colleges and universities.

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The Evolution of Steel Wire Manufacturing: From Manual Processes to Modern Tech

Steel wire is a foundational material in countless industries, from construction and automotive to telecommunications and consumer goods. Over the centuries, the process of manufacturing steel wire has undergone a dramatic transformation��shifting from rudimentary manual techniques to today’s precision-driven, tech-enabled systems. This evolution has not only increased production speed and efficiency but also improved the quality and versatility of steel wire products. Understanding this journey helps us appreciate the innovation that modern steel wire manufacturers bring to the table.

Early Beginnings: Manual Drawing and Labor-Intensive Craftsmanship

The earliest instances of wire-making date back to ancient civilizations, including Egypt and Mesopotamia. At that time, metalworkers used simple tools to manually draw metal through small holes in stone or metal dies. This primitive method required tremendous effort and produced only small quantities of wire suitable for jewelry or small structural uses.

By the Middle Ages, blacksmiths in Europe refined wire-drawing techniques by introducing more advanced drawplates and larger manual mechanisms. This allowed for greater consistency in diameter and marginal increases in production volume. However, the entire process still relied heavily on human labor and skill, and wire length and strength remained limited.

The Industrial Revolution: Birth of Mechanized Manufacturing

The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries marked a turning point in steel wire manufacturing. With the invention of steam power and mechanized drawing machines, production became faster, more uniform, and less reliant on manual labor. Wires could now be produced in longer lengths and with improved tensile strength, making them suitable for a wider range of applications—from fencing and piano strings to telegraph wires.

At this stage, steel as a material gained popularity due to the development of the Bessemer process, which made steel more affordable and available. Steel’s strength, flexibility, and resistance to corrosion made it ideal for wire manufacturing, and manufacturers began shifting from iron to steel as the preferred material.

The 20th Century: Precision Engineering and Mass Production

The 20th century ushered in a new era of precision and scale. Electric-powered machinery replaced steam, and steel wire manufacturers began implementing cold drawing methods to improve surface finish and dimensional accuracy. Advancements in metallurgy also enabled the creation of specialized wire grades tailored to specific applications, such as stainless steel for medical equipment or high-carbon steel for springs.

By the mid-1900s, automation entered the wire manufacturing scene. Continuous drawing machines, automatic coiling, and heat-treatment processes allowed for round-the-clock operations. Quality control also improved with the use of microscopes and tensile testing equipment, helping manufacturers meet increasingly strict industry standards.

Modern Era: Technology-Driven Innovation

Today, the steel wire industry is shaped by automation, digitalization, and sustainability. Computer Numerical Control (CNC) systems and robotics are commonly used in wire drawing, coiling, and cutting operations. These technologies enhance precision, reduce waste, and ensure consistency in every batch.

Additionally, advanced sensors and monitoring systems collect real-time data to optimize production and detect flaws instantly. This smart manufacturing approach not only boosts productivity but also reduces downtime and maintenance costs.

Environmental responsibility has also become a priority. Modern steel wire manufacturers are adopting energy-efficient processes, recycling systems, and low-emission technologies to meet global sustainability goals. Many have started integrating renewable energy sources and minimizing water usage in their operations.

Another important shift has been in customization. With better control over production parameters, manufacturers can now offer wires in a wide range of diameters, coatings, strengths, and finishes—designed precisely for use in aerospace, medical, or even artistic applications.

The Role of Digital Twin and AI in Wire Production

One of the most exciting frontiers in steel wire manufacturing is the adoption of digital twin technology and artificial intelligence (AI). A digital twin creates a virtual replica of the entire production line, enabling engineers to simulate changes, predict outcomes, and optimize performance without interrupting the actual operation.

AI further enhances this ecosystem by analyzing massive data sets from production lines to identify patterns, predict failures, and suggest process improvements. These capabilities allow steel wire manufacturers to remain agile in a competitive market while maintaining high standards of quality and safety.

Looking Ahead: What the Future Holds

As Industry 4.0 continues to shape manufacturing, the steel wire sector will see even more integration of smart technologies. Additive manufacturing, machine learning, and cloud-based data management may soon play a bigger role in customizing wire products and optimizing supply chains.

Moreover, geopolitical shifts, climate change policies, and global demand fluctuations will likely influence how and where wire is manufactured. Steel wire manufacturers that embrace innovation while maintaining sustainable and resilient practices will be the ones leading the next generation of the industry.

About Krueger

Krueger stands at the forefront of modern steel wire manufacturing, combining decades of experience with cutting-edge technology to deliver precision-engineered wire products for a variety of industries. Committed to quality, innovation, and sustainability, Krueger continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in wire manufacturing—ensuring that their clients receive nothing but the best. Whether it’s standard wire solutions or custom specifications, Krueger remains a trusted name in the world of steel wire.

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2021 Porsche Taycan 4S is a formidable electric sports car

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2021 Porsche Taycan 4S is a formidable electric sports car

Crisp air, crisper performance.

Chris Paukert/Roadshow

Porsche’s Taycan EV is ostensibly a Tesla Model S rival — arguably its most direct competitor. Indeed, the Taycan’s all-electric powertrain, prodigious power and four-door design all appear to fall neatly into that mold. But if you’re even passingly familiar with driving Elon Musk’s Dream Machine, it’s quite a surprise to drop all the way down into the bucket of the 2021 Porsche Taycan 4S. The German’s low-slung seating position and view out over the windshield feel infinitely more sports carlike than the more traditional, sedanlike perch found in the Tesla.

Like

Visceral, sports-car-like feel

Effortless acceleration

Endless personalization

Don’t Like

Limited range

Pricy options

No Android Auto

No one-pedal drive mode

In fact, after a week behind the wheel of the Taycan, I’d go so far as to say that were today’s EV market more mature and varied in its number of offerings, many people wouldn’t be tempted to compare these two at all. The Porsche is a 911 that happens to be electric and have an extra set of doors, and the Tesla is arguably more of a sport sedan that happens to be electric (ironic, as the S is a hatchback and the Porsche is a sedan). That’s not a knock on either automakers’ approach to our electric future, as both are wonderfully accomplished machines, but despite these EVs both possessing ludicrous acceleration and handling, they feel totally distinct from each other and live different lives.

It’s evident right from the get-go that Porsche has gone its own way with the Taycan. The whole car sits closer to the ground and its nose and tail are sleeker. As a result, this is a car that requires some practical concessions in return for its more sporting reflexes. I’m not just referring to the 4S’ sports car numbers — the model’s 0-to-60-mph time is 3.8 seconds and its top speed is 155 mph, all of which is well within the bounds of what’s possible from Team Musk.

The 4S is the 482-horsepower (562 hp with launch control) midgrade Taycan, sitting between the recently released 321-hp rear-drive base model and the teleportation-esque 616-hp Turbo. Offering 479 pound-feet of torque, the all-wheel-drive 4S relies on a smaller inverter with the same motor as the Turbo up front, as well as a smaller motor out back. Priced from $105,150 (including a $1,350 destination fee), the Taycan 4S may seem like a relative bargain compared with the $150,000 Turbo, but it’s nevertheless eye-wateringly expensive. A drive in the 4S makes it easy to feel like this model is the Goldilocks of the Taycan family, but the truth is, it’s a stunner from top to bottom, offering amazing all-around driving experiences that are typically coupled with wiltingly high price points.

The Porsche’s difference is in its feel beyond its raw numbers. The 4S’ handling sets it apart, with an immediacy to its steering and braking, paired with a well-sorted air suspension that is everyday-livable, yet capable of making the most out of every corner. It doesn’t even take nine-tenths handling to figure out how special the 4S feels, which is a good thing, because as the photos accompanying this article suggest, the weather isn’t always exactly cooperative. The multimode suspension is compliant enough for everyday comfort, enabling remarkably flat cornering even without selecting stiffer settings. PCCB carbon-ceramic brakes are available, but seem like costly overkill unless you plan to visit racetracks regularly.

Despite not having a hooded binnacle, those digital gauges are visible in all lights.

Chris Paukert/Roadshow

The Taycan’s two-speed transmission continues to be something of a novelty in the EV world — nearly every other production electric goes with a single-speed direct-drive. The Taycan’s two-speed gearbox acts on the rear axle to provide both high-speed cruising efficiency and better low-end acceleration. While you probably won’t even notice the transmission’s operation in everyday driving, it is noticeable under hard acceleration. That’s not a complaint — it’s actually nice to get a subtle thwack in the back as the transmission shifts gears, as it gives the Taycan a reassuringly mechanical quality, even if it doesn’t presently make the 4S materially quicker than models from You Know Who.

Interestingly, you won’t find a full-blown one-pedal driving mode in this Taycan, although you can adjust the amount of lift-off energy recuperation. Porsche says this approach affords more consistent braking feel regardless of the battery’s state of charge, and indeed, the 4S offers the most natural modulation of any EV I’ve ever encountered. Having said all that, this driver would still prefer to have a one-pedal option.

The 4S’ sports carlike demeanor extends to its driving range, which is just 227 miles according to the EPA — and that’s when equipped with the optional dual-layer 93.4-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion pouch Performance Battery Plus, a $6,580 option. The 79.2-kWh standard-battery model taps out at 199 miles, and both range totals are significant improvements over the figures promised for the 2020 model. Both are a pittance compared with what’s available elsewhere, including the Model S Long Range Plus’ EPA-estimated 402 miles.

In profile, the Taycan’s 911-like design characteristics come through best.

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As we at Roadshow and other outlets have told you in the past, not all range estimates work out the same in the real world, and we’ve found it’s significantly easier to get (or beat) the stated range of Porsche’s Taycan family in more situations than we have been able to in various Teslas. On the downside, Porsche nickels-and-dimes you for the best charging experience — an onboard 150kW/400V DC charger is a $460 option and Mobile Charge Connect (a charge cord with a built-in 5-inch screen) is $1,120. Even Porsche Intelligent Range Manager, a software function that calculates charge stops based on available range and driving style, is a further $300.

Fortunately, even an early spring snow in Michigan didn’t thwart my Carrara White Metallic 4S test car’s range, or its driving fun. In the end, though, there’s little doubt that there’s a significant range deficit here, so this Stuttgart special may be best viewed as a Sunday fun-day indulgence or a daily commuter rather than as a viable interstate grand tourer.

As a consequence of its slightly more compact powertrain componentry, the 4S actually offers a bit more rear trunk space than the Turbo, but that’s not to say that any Taycan offers a particularly generous amount of room. This 4S nets out at 17.2 cubic feet spread between its two cargo holds (14.3 cubes in back and 2.9 in the frunk). Compared with the Tesla, the Taycan is arguably best viewed here as an all-electric sports car with some additional spacial flexibility for two extra people in a pinch. (If you need more cargo room, Porsche now offers the Taycan in a fetching Sport Turismo bodystyle).

20-inch Sport Aero ($2,720) wheels thankfully arrived wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero winter rubber.

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It isn’t just the hunkered-down seats that ram home the Taycan’s driving-first message, as the rest of the cabin follows suit. The dashboard is low-slung, with its prominent center stack contributing to a pronounced cockpitlike feel. The reconfigurable all-digital instrument panel is ultra-crisp and legible in any light, despite being hoodless. With tons of piano-black trim and plenty of touchscreen real estate, this particular 4S looks at once sleek and high-tech, but those same finishes make the cabin a fingerprint and dust magnet like few other test cars I can remember.

Speaking of high-tech, you can get the Taycan with up to five screens, including the aforementioned 16.8-inch gauge cluster. The central touchscreen measures 10.9 inches, plus there’s an 8.4-inch HVAC touchscreen and an optional 5.9-inch passenger display (not fitted to this vehicle).

Like my fellow Roadshow compatriots, I’ve come to appreciate Porsche’s latest-generation infotainment, though there is a learning curve and some will wish for more physical switchgear — especially for easier manipulation of things like airflow, which is controlled entirely via menus instead of a more intuitive manual approach. If you’re looking for the simplest solution, you can rely on Apple CarPlay for most functions, but Android Auto remains unavailable, at least until the 2022 model year, when Porsche will start filtering the tech into various models in its lineup.

Maybe just a few more miles…

Chris Paukert/Roadshow

My particular test car has comfortable, supportive 18-way power Adaptive Sport Seats ($400) clad in unusual Race-Tex fabric upholstery. With many high-end buyers seeking alternatives to traditional leather seats, this Graphite Blue material could be a welcome alternative, but I find it to be a bit coarse, both to the hand and, at $4,130, to the wallet. All-in, combined with other pricy options like 20-inch Sport Aero wheels ($2,770) and a $7,170 Premium Package (Bose audio, fixed glass roof, 360-degree camera coverage, ventilated seats and other niceties), this model rings up at $136,190 before available federal and state EV incentives. That’s a lot of coin in options, but Porsche’s build-it-your-way configurability is off the charts, and as such, $30,000 in options isn’t an atypical amount for Porsche customers at this end of the spectrum.

In the end, even with four doors, the Taycan 4S absolutely feels like the Porsche sports car of the future. It offers rewardingly self-assured, tactile high performance in a unique formula at a very exclusive price. As the middle child of the most driver-focused EV family available today, the 4S is a formidable and downright lustworthy machine — provided you’re willing to look beyond its spec sheet and price tag.

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ASSIGNMENT_03 : BINARY ADDING MACHINE

( P-2.0 = PROTOTYPE 2.0 : RELAY // MATERIAL EXPLORATION )

( Christopher Meza + Nicholas Rowlings + Arghavan Ebrahimi)

After the results of the paper relay model we followed up with more research when it came to developing a more robust relay. This included an exploration of both materials and assembly possibilities. At this point we were constantly going back and both between researching methods for controlling the sequence in which air moves through the machine. 

The image above shows a more complex relay. This version of the prototype uses a spring in order to keep the air outlet closed constantly until air pressure is applied in order to overpower the spring. Once the spring is compressed the air outlet is opened letting air pass. through. In theory, and within the digital realm this idea seems to work smoothly. Our constraint is now, the assembly. 

Our research led us to believe that it was necessary to use a series of valves in order to distribute a single air source into a series of lines that would work as pneumatic energy lines and inputs. As a constraint, we wanted to limit the manual intervention required to operate the machine. This time delay valve would have resolved part of that issue. By timing the amount of time it took for air to run through a series of relays and logic gates, we could set a time for the second input sequence to start. This would have allowed us to fine tune the machine in a way that would allow us to minimize the air that escapes. 

This diagram depicts our first attempt at developing a logic gate. What the image above does not show is the material study. For this prototype we decided to use chipboard. The first thought was that it would be a material that we could laser cut, therefore expediting the assembly. Additionally, we also thought that the material would be able to handle a higher psi when compared to the paper models. 

This image depicts the material composition of the logic gate. In theory it was able to work perfectly, The paper shuttles (relay components) were able to move and work collectively in order to process a computation. The issues that we ran into were in part due to fabrication and assembly. After the assembly was finished and tested, we concluded that the logic gate worked in the sense that all components within the logic gate were able to move and compute with one another. However, there was a constant loss of pressure throughout the entire logic gate. This was mainly due to the myriad of pieces that had to be glued. Internally. The amount of pressure held within one chamber was not able to hold and once the glue was ripped off the chipboard, air began to leak out, and it created discrepancies with the computation. 

Again, the design itself was not modular due to the myriad of pieces required in order to assemble the logic gate. If we would have moved forward with this, we would have had to make several logic gates with the understanding that they may not work internally. due to air pressure leaks. 

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12kv vacuum circuit breaker

CAT circuit breaker analyzers and timers are advanced standalone or a PC controlled instruments for circuit breaker maintenance. Santon has developed Sidunn conversion sets for the installation of new Merlin Gerin Masterpact NT or NW circuit- breakers in existing distribution equipment for the replacement of obsolete circuit-breakers. Our circuit breakers are applied in panelboards, switchboards, motor control centers, control panels, combination starters, individual enclosures, and bus duct plug-in units. With this functionality, different Apply Circuit Breaker assertions can allow their nested policy to execute for some requests, but not others. A circuit breaker acts as a proxy for operations that might fail. When electricity enters your home, it goes to a circuit breaker box (or fuse box in older homes), where it's divided into a number of circuits. The circuit breaks after a specified number of latency failures. Unlike their market-wide counterparts, these individual circuit breakers go into effect whether the price moves up or down. You can create  12kv vacuum circuit breaker at runtime by configuring the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion to use context variables in a Custom Event Tracker ID. These dynamic circuits apply to the same blocks of policy, but have different failure event histories and circuit states since they have different Event Trackers. These are used on overhead electric power distribution systems, to prevent short duration faults from causing sustained outages. This technological breakthrough is combined with new embedded predictive power management software, protection algorithms and higher levels of connectivity. This condition can create conductive ionized gases and molten or vaporized metal, which can cause further continuation of the arc, or creation of additional short circuits, potentially resulting in the explosion of the circuit breaker and the equipment that it is installed in. Therefore, circuit breakers must incorporate various features to divide and extinguish the arc. E, a 20-amp breaker with thicker, No. 12 wire can carry more current than a 15-amp circuit with No. 14 wire. If you experience tripping of the circuit breakers quite frequently, it is time to call in the professionals to investigate the problem. When the Policy Failure Circuit trips, routing for all the developers cease, even if their requests were succeeding. 3WL air circuit breakers are available in four sizes, each featuring a 3- and 4-pole design, and cover a power range from 630 A to 6,300 A. The modular portfolio offers flexibility and provides for easy assembly and subsequent adjustment. MasterPact NT and NW UL 489 listed is a range of air circuit breakers designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads, short circuits and equipment ground faults, and complying with UL 489 requirements. Here you will find important information, documents, and addresses relating to low-voltage power distribution and electrical installation technology. Its speed maximizes the performance of power distribution systems, while maintaining service continuity. When an emergency or disaster strikes, CBS Northeast has dedicated engineers, technicians, complete manufacturing facilities including sheet-metal machining capability, and a huge inventory of all manufacturers' obsolete, surplus, and new electrical equipment and replacement parts, enabling us to restore your power quickly and safely. The proxy should monitor the number of recent failures that have occurred, and use this information to decide whether to allow the operation to proceed, or simply return an exception immediately. These typically require a separate power source, such as a battery , although some high-voltage circuit breakers are self-contained with current transformers , protective relays , and an internal control power source. The purpose of the timeout timer is to give the system time to fix the problem that caused the failure before allowing the application to try to perform the operation again. In every interval, failure records older than the interval are removed from Event Trackers (for example, using the default value: every 10 minutes, failures older than 10 minutes are removed).

Thanks to investments from three of the four largest circuit breaker manufacturers, Siemens, ABB, and Eaton, Atom Power hopes to meet the challenge and continue their pathbreaking work shaping the future of networked power. They are the most commonly used circuit breakers in the USA. Short CircuitsAnother common reason why circuit breakers trip is a short circuit, which is more dangerous than an overloaded circuit. After one failure we are opening the circuit which will be half-open again after 5000 ms. Operations time out after 2000 ms. If a fallback is specified, it will be called only in case of an open circuit. These faults can range in severity from a partial loss of connectivity to the complete failure of a service. The system of circuit breakers has been revised several times based on feedback from past crises. Once the failures reach a certain threshold, the circuit breaker trips, and all further calls to the circuit breaker return with an error, without the protected call being made at all. Timeouts are used in almost every application to avoid requests getting stuck forever. High current air circuit breakers up to 5000 A complying with UL 489 standard. High current air circuit breakers up to 6300 A embedding advanced digital technologies. Should we get a timeout, we increment the failure counter, successful calls reset it back to zero. Callbacks can be used eg. to collect statistics about all invocations or to react on specific call results like success, failures or timeouts. Remember, the circuit breaker, wire and wire insulation are all designed and sized to work together—safely. By default, one circuit breaker instance is used for all calls (methods) to another service. Molded case circuit breakers from 630 to 3200 A. ComPact NS is a range of molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) with embedded MicroLogic control units for built-in power & energy metering. A short circuit is a more serious reason for a breaker tripping. This will lead to the overheating of the circuit which puts all the electrical appliances connected to the circuit at risk. We can deliver these Circuit Breakers from our specialized warehouse and deliver those breakers overnight wherever you're based in the world. In this task, you will configure circuit breaking rules and then test the configuration by intentionally tripping” the circuit breaker. The proxy maintains a count of the number of recent failures, and if the call to the operation is unsuccessful the proxy increments this count. Circuit Breaker Dashboard provides Spring applications with an implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern. Like a circuit breaker in an electrical circuit, the software version allows flow to a service to be shut off. A circuit breaker is a switching device that interrupts the abnormal or fault current. Operations guarded by a circuit breaker are intended to be non-blocking and asynchronous in order to benefit from the Vert.x execution model. Sample size (requests): The number of samples to take for a circuit breaker window. Circuit breakers are individual on a single host, they do not centralise or pool back-end data. The ABB solid-state breaker concept works by replacing the traditional moving parts of an electro-mechanical circuit breaker with power electronics and advanced software algorithms that control the power and can interrupt extreme currents faster than ever before. In small mains and low voltage circuit breakers, this is usually done within the device itself. The failure of one service can potentially cascade to other services throughout the application. We make energy-saving proposals according to our customers' energy environment in areas ranging from quality assurance and protection of high-voltage electric power to management of low-voltage consumption rate. Most of today's homes now use circuit breakers to offer this control and protection to individual circuits, but older homes that have not had their electrical systems upgraded may use fuses. In a system where the recovery time for a failing operation is extremely variable, it's beneficial to provide a manual reset option that enables an administrator to close a circuit breaker (and reset the failure counter).

By default, the used address is vertx.circuit-breaker. At some point your application will need to account for the circuit breaker pattern; common responses include providing a default value or (if possible) ignoring the existence of the service. The Retry pattern enables an application to retry an operation in the expectation that it'll succeed. For example, in the event of an electrical fault in a 4MW utility-scale battery system, the new solid-state circuit breaker can prevent losses of up to $100,000 per plant from missed energy remuneration and system recovery costs. This page is designed to assist all customers using legacy F-frame circuit breakers with the transition to PowerPact B or other PowerPact circuit breakers. With industry leading innovations and exclusive features, Square D Homeline Circuit Breakers are the smart, safe, reliable choice. In fact, many planners believe that to accommodate growing demand for electrical power, much of it from renewables, the main and secondary trunk lines of the current AC electrical grid should be converted to DC. But that conversion would require new designs for grid components, such as circuit breakers, that can handle DC power. The fallback callback will be used if the distant service is unreachable when the Circuit Breaker is Open (means "is used" if the service is unreachable). These circuit breakers are applied in panelboards, switchboards, motor control centers, control panels, combination starters, individual enclosures, and bus duct plug-in units. Generally used in a loadcenter, panelboard, or similar device, industrial miniature circuit breakers are a specific type of circuit breaker, used to switch and protect the lowest common distribution voltage in an electrical system. In its default configuration, the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion sets no Custom Event Trackers. The Akka library provides an implementation of a circuit breaker called akka.pattern.CircuitBreaker which has the behavior described below. Trough our sales office based in Rotterdam we can deliver Miniature Moulded Case or Air Circuit Breakers from 6 Ampere up to 6300 Ampere. Lagom's client maps all 4xx and 5xx responses to Exceptions and Lagom's Circuit Breaker defaults to considering all Exceptions as failures. Similarly, an administrator could force a circuit breaker into the Open state (and restart the timeout timer) if the operation protected by the circuit breaker is temporarily unavailable. Circuit breaker MCCB intended for photovoltaic power generation. When the circuit is "open", calls to the circuit breaker fail immediately, without any attempt to execute the real operation. Circuit breakers function by temporarily halting trading when prices hit predefined levels, such as a 14% intraday drop for the S&P 500 , or a 15% rise in a company's share price over five minutes. Neither ordinary circuit breakers nor fuses offer any protection against arc faults. A flexible, high-performance offer, certified to global standards from 240 to 3000 A. The PowerPact M-frame, P-frame, and R-frame circuit breakers are designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads and short circuits. A particular type of short circuit, a " ground-fault ," occurs if a hot wire comes in contact with a ground wire or a metal wall box or touches wood framing members. Similarly, a circuit breaker could fluctuate and reduce the response times of applications if it switches from the Open state to the Half-Open state too quickly. ComPact NSX is a full range of high performance molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) in 2 frame sizes designed to meet your needs from thermal-magnetic to advanced MicroLogic trip units. You can define one or more circuits per instance of the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion. Even though the tripping of circuit breakers ensures safety, it can get quite frustrating to constantly experience them and getting the power back on repeatedly. When the percentage of free heap memory is less than memory_threshold, and the CPU time spent doing garbage collection is greater than gc_cpu_threshold, the circuit breaker trips.

Tyk has a built-in circuit breaker pattern as a path-based option. Health Endpoint Monitoring pattern A circuit breaker might be able to test the health of a service by sending a request to an endpoint exposed by the service. Battery storage solutions: In case of a fault, the solid-state circuit breaker disconnects the faulty zone only, which avoids all the rack fuses blowing up and the resultant shut down of the whole system. CircuitBreaker doesn't support Tell Protection (protecting against calls that expect a reply) natively at the moment, so you need to use the low-level power-user APIs, succeed and fail methods, as well as isClose, isOpen, isHalfOpen to implement it. For a grid-connected solar home, for example, residents sometimes have to disconnect their solar input because traditional power systems (including the circuit breakers) aren't advanced enough to properly manage multiple power sources that change. The timeout pattern is pretty straightforward and many HTTP clients have a default timeout configured. The animation below shows the payment service waiting for the response from the fraud check service and aborting the operation after the timeout exceeded. You likely already know where your main service panel is located and whether your system uses circuit breakers or fuses. High current air circuit breakers for Navy applications up to 4000 A. MasterPact NT and NW Navy is a range of air circuit breakers designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads, short circuits and equipment ground faults, complying with Navy requirements. The CorePower® DC or AC Electronic Circuit Breaker Unit replaces conventional thermal mechanical circuit breakers and functions as both a breaker and a switch for controlling loads. Engineered for value, Homeline Circuit Breakers are designed for fast installation, reliability, and superior circuit protection. To prevent an application from trying to invoke a remote service or access a shared resource if this operation is highly likely to fail. If on the other hand an error or timeout is received, we trigger a fail and the breaker accrues this failure towards its count for opening the breaker. Miniature and molded-case circuit breakers are usually discarded when the contacts have worn, but power circuit breakers and high-voltage circuit breakers have replaceable contacts. Our 21st Century circuit breaker technology can better meet the demands of renewables, the electrification of transport and modern edge grids as today`s offerings,” said Giampiero Frisio, the head of ABB's Smart Power business line. Wrapping the logic that connects to the service and retrieves the data in a circuit breaker could help to solve this problem and handle the service failure more elegantly. If the timeout is too long, a thread running a circuit breaker might be blocked for an extended period before the circuit breaker indicates that the operation has failed. A direct current grid would need circuit breakers in the high-voltage transmission lines that take power to a city, and in the medium-voltage distribution lines that branch out and take power to city neighborhoods. Eaton's residential circuit breakers are used in load centers, panelboards, or similar devices. Level 3 circuit breakers halt trading for the remainder of the trading day (9:30 AM to 4:00 PM). When you apply a circuit breaker to a method, Hystrix watches for failing calls to that method, and, if failures build up to a threshold, Hystrix opens the circuit so that subsequent calls automatically fail. The solid-state circuit breaker will be around 100 times faster than traditional electro-mechanical breakers. An ECB simplifies aircraft electrical systems by integrating breaker, switch, and relay functions into a single solid-state device with no inherent wear-out mechanism, dramatically improving reliability. The solution has the same footprint as ComPact NSX circuit breakers and comes with compatible accessories up to 630 A. Small circuit breakers typically have a manual control lever to switch off the load or reset a tripped breaker, while larger units use solenoids to trip the mechanism, and electric motors to restore energy to the springs.

Ground fault protection or monitoring from 30mA to 30A. Circuit breakers below rated voltage of 1000V are known as the low voltage circuit breakers and above 1000V are called the high voltage circuit breakers. In terms of the physics involved, a short circuit allows for a sudden unimpeded flow of electricity due to lowered resistance, and this sudden increase in current flow within the breaker causes the tripping mechanism to activate. Circuit breakers are measures used to curb panic-selling on U.S. stock exchanges. If the operation fails, an exception handler calls TrackException, which sets the circuit breaker state to open. In that case you can add ".transport.NotFound" to the circuit breaker whitelist so that it is not considered a failure. The circuit breaks after a certain number of child policy failures, within a given sampling window (for example, "over the last 5 seconds"). Circuit OverloadsA circuit overload is one of the main reasons why circuit breakers trip constantly. PEARL membership is validation of our longstanding commitment to quality and adherence to the highest standards, and strict technical, safety, and operational requirements to ensure the proper recycling and reuse of electrical power equipment. Circuit breakers are a valuable place for monitoring. You can use Hystrix with Vert.x instead of this circuit breaker or in combination of. This section describes the tricks to use Hystrix in a vert.x application. 3VA molded case circuit breakers. If that call succeeds, the circuit is closed; if it fails, however, the circuit is opened again until another timeout i.e. 60 seconds elapses. Circuit breakers are brought into effect if trading occurs outside of these predefined parameters. When the circuit breaker detects early symptoms of memory exhaustion, it automatically "trips" and limits instrumentation. Air circuit breakers—Rated current up to 6,300 A and higher for generator circuit breakers. The Trip method switches the state of the circuit breaker to the open state and records the exception that caused the change in state, together with the date and time that the exception occurred. When too many appliances or light fixtures are operating at the same time, the internal sensing mechanism in the circuit breaker heats up, and the breaker "trips," usually by means of a spring-loaded component within the breaker. These should be used in conjunction with judicious timeouts at the interfaces between remote systems to prevent the failure of a single component from bringing down all components. Here's a simple example of this behavior in Ruby, protecting against timeouts. As with hard shorts, if a ground fault is present, the circuit breaker may trip again immediately after you reset it. In software, a circuit breaker protects your services from being spammed while already being partly unavailable due to high load. In the case of circuit breakers, the immediate answer is to find the breaker that has tripped and reset the lever to the ON position. According to Wikipedia the definition of Circuit Breaker in Electrical technology. For electricity grids, the introduction of the new ABB concept circuit breaker is as dramatic as the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors, which heralded the start of the digital age. You will use this client to trip” the circuit breaker policies you set in the DestinationRule. And you probably also know that when all the lights and fixtures in a portion of the house go dark or dead at the same time, it's because one of those circuit breakers has "tripped" or one of those fuses as blown. GE's solution for Pumped Storage Power Plant (PSPP) offers an integrated package of protection schemes, including generator circuit breaker, phase reverse disconnector, braking, starting and back-to-back switches. Should the call succeed, the circuit breaker resets and returns to the closed state, ready for more routine operation. Shunt trips may be a user fitted accessory to a standard breaker, or supplied as an integral part of the circuit breaker. Once you have a circuit mapped out and the electrical loads added up, you'll be able to tell if you can plug more devices into the circuit without overloading it.

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Nissan, Cadillac, Fiat: The Worst Cars of 2019

(Bloomberg) –What makes a bad car the worst car isn’t often about just one bad thing. It’s usually a mix of several near-misses wrapped into a poorly designed or over-priced package, one that doesn’t even live up to the automaker’s own promises about the car—whatever those may be.

On Thursday I wrote about the best cars of 2019. That list included Italian supercars, futuristic electric sportscars, and one incredible station wagon.

Today, I’ll tell you about the worst.

Let’s start with the Nissan GT-R Nismo. Yes, it has a cult following. (At least, that’s what I’m told—the company declined to specify whom exactly the buyers are.) And it has a laudable pedigree as the descendent of Japan’s most iconic sports car, the Nissan Skyline GT-R. It is a favorite of video gamers worldwide. But the one I drove in November felt both thinly built and badly designed. Chief among them: An oversized rear wing best left on a F1 track, eye-jarring proportions in the rear, taillights that look like they’re from 10 years ago, and the general squareness of a Rubik’s cube. (Another winner for worst graphics/spoiler combination: The $187,500 Jaguar XE SV Project 8, which I would describe as an expensive way to look cheap.)

Some of that could be forgiven, but at $210,740, the GT-R Nismo is ridiculously expensive—it costs as much as the Bentley Continental GT, but is nowhere near as well-apportioned, or comfortable, or even as fun to drive. To all but the most exacting professional drivers, the GT-R Nismo is indistinguishable from the GT-R Track ($145,540) and the GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition ($123,00). Trust me, it’s likely that neither you nor I have the thousands of track-day hours and training to tell the difference.

Bloat can come in many forms, though. Take the Fiat 500L. Fiat has a century-plus, beloved history that mushroomed when those endearing little go-getters populated Italy during the 1960s and ‘70s. La dolce vita indeed. But the modern version is nowhere near as lovable. For starters, Fiat has expanded the 500 range to include four-door offerings like the 500L it advertises as “equipped for anything, especially fun.”

But to make it practical for daily life, the model costs much more than the $22,160 base model price. The one I tested last spring cost an extra $5,000 after the add-ons required to make it feel close to the spunky and “ready for fun” attitude the brand promises. Those extras included relatively simple additions, too, like dual-zone climate control, power-operated seats, sunroof, a decent sound system, an auto-dimming rear mirror, and a chrome “appearance” kit, which paints the wheels and exterior with silver accents. Fiat leverages the chic, luxury association of its brand and Ferrari-owning parent company, but with the 500L it falls short of delivering on that élan.

All of this would be fine, I suppose, if the car drove well. It could be like a little rally car, or even like a cool and minimal Mini. Even an ugly rally car, like the MG Metro 6R4, would suffice. (That one along with its Group B brethren make this list in the Ugly category—yes, I know, the cars are incredible to drive, but you can’t deny that these fall into the so-ugly-they’re-cute category. Like Baby Yoda.)

Instead, the 500L offers an anemic 160-horsepower inline-four-cylinder engine and six-speed automatic transmission. The turbo has lags, the steering is indefinite, and the braking feels blasé. No manual version is available, more’s the pity. It all leaves me to question, when there are so many other similar vehicles for this price tag that are better—a Mini Countryman or a Subaru Outback come to mind—why anyone would buy a Fiat 500L at all.

One car I didn’t drive still makes this list: the 1939 Type 64. But I stood by as its engine started, after 10 minutes of coaxing in a Big Sur back lot, and was there when it rolled onto the sale block, and it makes for an amazing story. If you read one auction deep-dive this year, make it this one.

Here’s the short version: RM Sotheby’s lists a car Ferdinand Porsche built for the Nazis, labels it the first Porsche, and ratchets up the hype with a pricing estimate of $20 million, a sum that would make it the most expensive Porsche ever sold. But a few vintage aficionados contest the claim, noting that while the silver, space-ship-looking machine is a precursor to the Porsche-badged cars built in Zuffenhausen, Germany, a decade later, it is not a true Porsche. (The fact it has a VW engine and Fiat components, among other suppliers, didn’t help matters.)

Then, on the night of the sale—during the premier Saturday night time slot, during the most glamorous auction week in the world—the car rolls onstage and the auctioneer starts his wind-up. Bidding goes wild, hitting $70 million … then stops altogether. Then restarts at $17 million. That’s if bidding happened at all—yet another source of controversy. (The auctioneer said at the time he had made a mistake pronouncing bids.) The crowd boos. The car fails to sell, then disappears into the shadows. You couldn’t make this up if you tried.

Lastly, a word about Cadillac. This one is more of a holding spot than a demerit on an actual car. Since, you see, there was no exciting new car.

In 2017, I took a 1960 El Dorado through upstate New York as part of a digital detox. That lovely thing with crimson interiors glided down back roads like a pearlescent dream. I want back in. The time before that was in 2016, when I drove the Cadillac CT6 sedan. At the time, I wrote it was a “gentle, inoffensive” sedan; I mentioned some yawning at one point.

In 2018 GM said it planned to end production of six cars at North American plants, including the CT6 sedan, then later said that one would remain in Cadillac’s U.S. lineup, though some variants like the CT6 Sport would end. The back-and-forth is not encouraging; it reminds me of the way that Harley-Davidson—another American heritage brand—has struggled with an electric motorcycle.

After Cadillac announced plans in January to make a crossover electric vehicle, the brand debuted two new sedans, two new variants of existing sedans, and a new midsize crossover SUV. Nothing terribly exciting. It launched a website for online shopping and teased a new electronics screen for the next generation of the Escalade, which is expected in February. On Dec. 17, the company said it will skip the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in January where it had planned to show off the EV crossover.

Instead, what made bigger news for the company in 2019 was everything other than its cars, which is a bad sign for a company that makes cars. It recalled 900,000 vehicles because of battery and brake issues. It got sued for failing to warn people about headlight defects. It announced a replacement campaign for the “Dare Greatly” tagline, which has disappointed.

If it all feels very much like meet the new boss, same as the old boss, that’s because it is. For the eighth time in 20 years, Cadillac appointed a new CEO this year. Its own former top officer and brand bastion, Bob Lutz, railed publicly against it: “I don’t think there are enough decades left in the branded automobile business as we know it to achieve a comeback,” Lutz said.

This isn’t to say that Cadillac isn’t entitled to a quiet year to regather itself, make some painful cuts, and renew its own reserves. GM boss Mary Barra has proven she’s comfortable taking the long view, slashing now where she must in favor of building toward sustainable growth later. Next year, Cadillac promises, we can expect that updated new Escalade and more information about the EV crossover. It has promised an array of new models (granted, they’re as distant into the future as Ursa Minor), and brand president Steve Carlisle has even said most Cadillac vehicles will be electric by 2030. Maybe Lutz will have to eat his words.

But we are talking about 2019 right now, where we are left waiting for America’s greatest heritage brand to give us something—anything—great to drive. In the meantime, I suggest you try one of these.

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Mounting Press

Metallographic specimen mounting press is a mechanical/manual machine. The operator can change 4 specification patterns according to the difficult specimens. It is suitable for all Thermosetting Materials. In the operation of machine by rotating the hand‐ wheel of the machine, a coupling of bevel gear is rotated to drive the screw rod which pulls the die in mould. The thermoset plastic granules together with specimen being mounted is formed under heated conditions. During this process the pressure is self-adjusted by a spring fixed inside the machine. A signal light is used to indicate the pressure level. The mounting press is equipped with a PID digital temperature controller to establish real‐time temperature meanwhile, the timer is equipped to realize the semi‐automation of sample–making, while obviously increasing working efficiency. For each specimen mounting, 8‐10 minutes is enough and a mirror-like a specimen can be acquired.

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On Thursday, 7th of November, I was invited by Girard-Perregaux to visit their freshly refurbished manufacture. The tour was organised on three different brand’s sites: the manufacture at Rue des Crêtets, the Haute-Horlogerie Department at Rue Numa-Droz and, the final destination of the tour, the Girard-Perregaux villa. I will not be able to explain all the things that I saw but I hope it will offer you a glimpse of how things are done at the La Chaux-de-Fonds brand. The article will contain, in the end, some words about the new logo, the vision and the future of Girard-Perregaux. Image and video-heavy article.

Movement in the assembly phase

Before going into more details, I invite you to have a look at the Girard-Perregaux history on their official Heritage & Duty webpage. A short crush introduction of this article can be seen in this 2017 official video below (available from the same webpage).

The joint manufacture at Rue des Crêtets

The manufacture tour started on the location at Rue des Crêtets. There, Girard-Perregaux and Ulysse Nardin share production spaces and lines. During the production, the spaces are well delimited between the brands. The same policy applies to the management and marketing departments, well defined and separated.

A meeting room that serves both brands. As some might have already noticed, the Girard-Perregaux new logo is used.

At the location, I was welcomed by Anna Lundstrom CMO of the Girard-Perregaux (communication and marketing) and Olivia Klay. The Rue des Crêtets serves as the production site for the brand’s core collection.

Where all starts

The first step in the creation of a new watch is the computer design. After the model is digitally created, simulated and tested, a prototype is manufactured. This one is tested in real-life situations but also in advance conditions. Only after a full working and reliable model is achieved, the new piece goes into production.

The first visited was the Development Department: movements, cases, digital simulation and process and aspects related to the development

The Development Department takes care also of the testing the characteristics of the new products, as part of the development process

The watchmaker assemble a prototype for testing

The testing facility is used during development but can support the production department, also help in case of issues during the production

A testing bench: a movement is tested by accelerating wear and ageing

The testing assemble

Testing routine and measurements are digitally programmed and measured – a high precision can be achieved

Another view of the testing apparatus

The R&D development team makes not only the digital design of new movements and cases. The production’s process is part of the R&D. Several tests are done to ensure the best quality in the new products: mechanical, thermal and even X-rays. The new materials for cases and movements are part of the investigations fulfilled by the R&D.

Machines used to manufacture small components

Gears and small parts

An entire room of the facility takes care of the production of small components – like the gears. In a room full of special machines, the gears and other round components are cut from metal roads. The raw pieces are then finished under the microscope.

Pins – working with this kind of components requires attention. Imagine spiling the box all over the place, the batch becomes unusable.

Milling and CNC machines used to manufacture gears

In production: various gears in different production phases and finishes

All the components are rigorously verified to ensure the best quality

A semi-automatic machine used to cut gear’s teeth

The part specifications on display

The operator feeds the machine and checks the final part for conformity

Various gear types

Various gear types

When machines need human expertise

In the high-quality production, the final touch to a component is done by an experimented human hand. For example, these pins are machined produced and then rectified and checked by an expert.

Rectifying machine

A closer look at the machine

Raw components

A closer look at the machine

Raw component under the microscope

Finished component under the microscope

Milling and CNC machines save a lot of time and produce high-quality components:

Requirements, specifications and parts in different manufacturing stages

Main plates waiting to be milled from their manufacturing plate

A modern computerised milling machine – CNC

Some CNCs need a human operator for feeding and quality control

Another view of the CNC

Milled parts

Inspection of the milled main plate

Another example of CNC usage: The bridges are milled to a micrometric precise height.

CNC machine

Another type of milling machine

A multi-head milling/drilling machine

A set of drilling and milling heads

An entire team of engineers create and improves the software controlling all the manufacturing machines and CNCs.

Checks & finishes before the final assembly

After the basic components are made, several operations must be fulfilled before going to be assembled. Some components need to receive and extra finishing step. Other need to be verified against the rigorous specifications.

Checking the milled parts:

The components produced by milling are checked using an optical model and human experience.

Hand polishing for components:

Hand polishing is part of the manufacturing process

Spring tests:

Checking balance springs using the computer

The spring tester

Balance wheel preparation:

Machine used to mount and test balance wheel counterweights

Balance wheel without counterweights

The weights mounting is a semi-automated process saving a lot of time

The balance weights are regulated using a precise computerised tool

Operating the machine requires a lot of patience and agile hands not to bent or damage the balance wheel

Perlage: for some components, the perlage is realised using a specialised computerised machine. After decoration steps, all components go to electroplating (usually rhodium plating).

Mainplates before and after perlage

Automated processes

Some of the processes can be done fully automatic, like mounting the jewels in their sink. For that, a robot arm is used. This takes the jewels from a tray and precisely fit and press the jewels with micrometric precision.

  Assembly line for movements and complete watches

The Girard-Perregaux assembly line is ultra-modern and combines the commodity of the machines with the knowledge and experience of the employees. The assembly lines use a robotic machine on which the movements are feed. The movements travel between the assembly stations and each watchmaker is doing its own steps. The movements that passed all the stations go further for hands mounting and encasing. Before being finally put in a case, all the movements are tested by a complex robot.

Final assembly room

The movements are placed into the holders and feed to the assembly line

Feeding tower for the assembly line

Assembly line

A loaded assembly line: the movements are divided between the working stations

Each watchmaker receives the movements that are dedicated to its station for certain objective

Assembly operation is done by experienced watchmakers

After each step, the watchmakers feeds back to the movement to the assembly and it is moved forward to the next watchmaker/assembly. In this case, mounting the main bridge.

Movement assembly

Movement assembly is a delicate operation that needs a clean and dried environment

Between the assembly steps, the watchmakers test the function to observe that everything is OK.

Mounting the bridges requires several mini screws

Testing the movements is a process that requires a lot of time. This time can be shortened by using a specialised robot that can test the movement using precise sensors. The chronometry is, in this way, fully automatic tested.

The biggest and scary winder I have met

The hands of time the watch

One of the final operation done for a watch is attaching the hands. This are manually inserted. Some of the hands need to be manually bent to follow the top crystal curvature. The watchmaker does this operation with exceptional precision gained in the years of experience. The hands’ movement is tested between each step.

An almost complete watch – the 1966 Collection with calibre GP03300-0030

Chrono-hand placement on a Laureato Chrono

Hands mounting on Laureato

Between the steps, the watch functionality is tested

Bending by hand the chronograph seconds’ hand

The final inspection before casing

The final step is to mount the calibre into the case

Before closing the case, the watch is checked for dust particles

Preparing the top crystal

A fully assembled Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph

The final check

Completed watches

  The Haute Horlogerie Department will be presented in the second part of the article.

  Girard-Perregaux Manufacture: Rue des Crêtets visit Gallery

A meeting room that serves both brands. As some might have already notice, the Girard-Perregaux new logo is used.

The first visited was the Development Department: movements, cases, digital simulation and process and aspects related to develpment

The Development Department takes care also of the testing the characteristics of the new products, as part of the development process

The watchmaker assembly a prototype for testing

A testing bench: a movement is tested by accelerating wear and ageing

Another view of the testing apparatus

Testing routine and measurements are digitally programmed and measured – a high precision can be achieved

The testing assemble

The testing facility is used during development, but can support the production department, also help in case of issues during the production

Machines used manufacture small components

Pins – working with this kind of components requires patience and care

Milling and CNC machines used to manufacture gears

In production: various gears in different production phases and finishes

All the components are rigorously verified to ensure the best quality

A semi-automatic machine used to cut gear’s teeth

The operator feed the machine and check the final part for conformity

The part specifications on display

Rectifying machine

A closer look to the machine

Raw components

A closer look at the machine

Finished component under the microscope

Various gear types

Various gear types

Checking balance springs using the computer

The spring tester

Machine used to mount and test balance wheel counterweights

Balance wheel without counterweights

The balance weights are regulated using a precise computerised tool

Operating the machine requires a lot of patience and agile hands no the bent or damage the balance wheel

The weights mounting is a semi-automated process saving a lot of time

Another view of the CNC

A modern computerised milling machine – CNC

Some CNCs need human operator for feeding and quality control

Parts waiting to be milled

CNC machine

Another example of CNC usage: The bridges are milled to a micrometric precise height.

An entire team of engineers create and improves the software controlling all the manufacturing machines and CNCs.

A set of drilling and milling heads

A multi-head milling machine

A multi head milling machine

Requirements, specifications and parts in different manufacturing stages

Milled parts

Inspection of the milled main plate

The components produced by milling are checked using an optical model and human experience.

Hand polishing is part of the manufacturing process

Mainplates before and after perlage

Final assembly room

The movement are placed into the holders and feed to the assembly line

Feeding tower for the assembly line

Assembly line

A loaded assembly line: the movements are divided between the working stations

Each watchmaker receives the movements that are dedicated to its station for certain objective

Assembly operation is done by experienced watchmakers

After each step, the watchmakers feeds back to movement to the assembly and it is moved forward to the next watchmaker/assembly

Movement assembly

Movement assembly is a delicate operation that needs a clean and dried environment

Between the assembly steps, the watchmakers test the function to observe that everything is OK.

Testing the movement is realised with the help of a specialised robot

An almost complete watch

Hands placement on a Laureato Chrono

Hands mounting on Laureato

Another view

The final inspection

Bending by hand the chronograph seconds’ hand

Before closing the case, the watch is checked for dust particles

The final step is to mount the calibre into the case

Preparing the top crystal

A fully assembled Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph

The final check

Completed watches

Girard-Perregaux Manufacture tour, Logo change and the vision for the future – Part 1 On Thursday, 7th of November, I was invited by Girard-Perregaux to visit their freshly refurbished manufacture. The tour was organised on three different brand's sites: the manufacture at Rue des Crêtets, the Haute-Horlogerie Department at Rue Numa-Droz and, the final destination of the tour, the Girard-Perregaux villa.

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Some of the world’s most celebrated individuals are school dropouts. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres and Mark Zuckerberg are some of today’s most distinguished examples. But did you know that the person responsible for designing the Porsche 911 was also a dropout? Well, he actually got kicked out of design school, so it’s one the same.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, more affectionately known as Butzi, was his name. After his expulsion, Butzi – then in his 20s – worked for his grandfather Ferdinand Porsche and was rubbing shoulders with then hotshot design director for Volkswagen and Porsche, Erwin Komenda. That tutelage didn’t go too well for him either, so they parted ways. Butzi holed up in the adjacent body shop and immediately started working on the 911.

It’s been 56 years since the original Porsche 911 broke cover. After eight iterations, it remains as one of the world’s most endearing sports cars, and is among the very few to still use a rear-engine layout. Prioritising tradition has always been one of the automaker’s key mantras, and the 911 is unequivocally its torchbearer.

From a design standpoint, the 992-generation Porsche 911 remains unmistakably recognisable, like all the models that precede it. While the exterior styling seems familiar, everything else underneath is 95% new. So yes, you’re looking at an entirely new Porsche 911.

Essentially, the front and rear design of the car have been modelled after the automaker’s latest styling direction, which comprise of the four-point LED headlights (the top LED matrix headlights feature 84 individual LEDs), wide air intakes, and the continuous rear LED bar.

Speaking of which, the body is considerably wider than the 991 model it replaces – the 992 is a staggering 45 mm wider up front. We’re told that it’s a deliberate design decision (influenced in part by the new chassis) to emphasise the bulging rear arches, and this combination helps accentuate the tapered midsection.

This widebody look is now standard for all models including the Carrera 2. Traditionally, rear-wheel drive 911s feature a narrower rump, but many 911 owners prefer the swelled haunches. There’s also an adaptive rear spoiler with a 25% larger surface area, which supports charge air cooling to prevent loss in performance.

Even before stepping into the car, the 992’s shell features a number of firsts for the model, such as the pop-up door handles, vertical third brake lights that take the form of a pause symbol (which I’m unusually fond of), and a more rigid all-aluminium body. Mixed tyre width is also applied for the first time – the front gets shod with 20-inch wheels, and the rear gets fatter 21-inch hoops.

Inside is where things get a bit more snazzy. Here, the cabin feels like the end result of zealous over-engineering. Materials are soft to the touch for most surfaces – there’s ample use of leather, and our test unit had matching burgundy suede headlining and floor mats. Am I really in a 911?

As if that wasn’t enough, the driver now gets a cleaner, more sophisticated cockpit, featuring two seven-inch digital instrument displays that flank the analogue rev counter in the middle. Together, they form the iconic five-dial setup that’s graced by every other 911 in existence. Next to that is a high-resolution 10.9-inch touchscreen display for the Porsche Communication Management, below which rests a row of five retro-styled switches.

The centre tunnel is also entirely new, and gone is the good ol’ stick. In its place is a mini electronic shifter that’s super intuitive to operate – flick up to reverse, down to drive. Easy peasy. Purists though, may find this modern approach slightly offensive. There’s no manual version for now, but perhaps in the near future.

The redesigned seats collectively shave three kg off the car – they are plonked five millimetres lower than before – and offer better lateral and shoulder support. In short, build quality is absolutely on point, and the cabin is a work of art, by far the best in a 911. This reinforces the notion of it being an all-purpose driving machine. But is it any better to drive than before?

Well, the experience starts at the turn of the key. Like the 991.2, base models get the turbocharged 3.0 litre horizontally-opposed six-cylinder petrol engine. While displacement is the same as before, the engine is new for the most part, featuring larger symmetrical turbochargers and a brand new intercooler. Piezo injectors are used for the first time, allowing improved responsiveness and revving characteristic.

As one of the world’s last few remaining devotees to the Boxer engine, one has to appreciate the distinctive acoustic rumble it makes. The optional Porsche Sports Exhaust system amplifies this addictive trait, and unless you’re crazy (like those who claim that a flat-six engine is simply a V6 with a 180-degree opening), you’d have it specified right from the get-go, even before you choose the colour of your car.

In Carrera S form, the engine makes 450 PS at 6,500 rpm and 530 Nm of torque at 2,300 to 5,000 rpm, or 30 hp and 30 Nm more than the 991.2 Carrera S. That’s more than enough for most drivers’ needs – the 992, now equipped with a new fast-shifting eight-speed PDK, rockets from standstill to 100 km/h in just 3.7 seconds, or 3.5 seconds with the optional Sports Chrono Pack.

The extra cog (the 991 has a seven-speed PDK) allows for a wider spread of ratios, and there’s an obvious sense of linearity and responsiveness during in-gear accelerations. This is in part due to the larger turbochargers, which feature mirrored turbines that rotate in opposing directions. This improves air flow, with a maximum boost pressure of 1.2 bar.

Gearshifts are lightning quick, as you’d expect from the world-renowned PDK, and imperceptibly slick as well. All eight ratios are new, with the first gear shorter and eighth longer, allowing for a longer final-drive ratio. Also, the 306 km/h V-max can be achieved in sixth gear, and all things considered, there’s absolutely no way of faulting the eight-speed PDK. World-class stuff, this.

Barreling down Circuit Ricardo Tormo (otherwise known as Circuit de Valencia) in the C2S showcased increased stability and balance, two traits that further distance itself from the ominous widow-making reputation its predecessors were infamously known for.

There are two things that proved key to achieving this, the first being the wider tracks – the front tracks are wider by 46 mm, and the rear is pushed out by 39 mm. The other thing is that the entire powertrain assembly is moved forwards by 20 mm. Don’t worry, loyalists, the engine still hangs over the rear axle.

The 992 also gets stiffer springs and uprated anti-roll bars to combat lateral forces – the net effect of this is a less tail-happy RR sports car, though the small downside to this is that the drive becomes a tad more predictable.

You could still go sideways with PSM (Porsche Stability Management) turned off, but unfortunately we weren’t permitted to disable the life-saving system. What’s clear is that the 911 Carrera S is not as focused a machine as the 718 Cayman GTS, but what it lacks in the drive is made up for with the sublime cabin. Plus, the 911 still seats four.

As for the C4S, its all-wheel drive system also gets upgraded with a new clutch and differential unit. They are water-cooled and strengthened to cope with the higher engine output, and the car is inherently less twitchy when cornering, especially when gunning the throttle on exits.

There’s a discernible deftness to the steering as well. Porsche says the steering rack on the 992 is 11% quicker than before, while models with the optional rear-wheel steering are 6% more direct. One thing’s for sure, the steering feels keener on the turn-ins than the 991 C4S.

Typically in a RWD car, you’d want the tail to swing wide when prompted. But to avoid wrapping the car around a tree on a rainy day, Porsche develop Wet Mode, otherwise known as the world’s first wetness recognition programme. This works by using acoustic sensors in the front wheel well to recognise spray patterns while driving, and this helps the system determine the amount of water present on the driven surface.

The process is swift, and upon detection, the driver will be prompted to manually switch to Wet Mode. When activated, PSM and PTM (Porsche Traction Management) work in unison to prevent the car from swapping ends. We exhaustively tried pushing the C2S wide on a designated wet surface as best as we could, but the second slippage is detected, power gets cut and the ABS system springs into action. It’s a weird sensation, but like it or not, it’s going to be available across the new 911 range.

On the track, the new Carrera S has shown its mettle – it’s got a sharper front end, a more stable tail, and a decidedly more pliable powertrain. Power is available on demand, no matter the speed or gear it’s in. But at the end of the day, the 911 is not all about track days, and the three million odd kilometres the prototype vehicles have gone through covers just about every driving scenario imaginable.

For city dwellers with a penchant for spirited drives along scenic routes, the 911 is just the kind of car Porsche makes for you. It’s like a Swiss Army knife, an all-in-one package that includes all things necessary and omits the redundant. Except now, the new 911 feels infinitely more luxurious than ever before.

It rides better as well, thanks to a set of fully re-engineered adaptive dampers (Porsche Active Suspension Management). This suspension is standard and has been upgraded on both the hardware and software side of things, so it’s more comfortable and, conversely, sportier. If it’s not firm enough, there’s PASM sports chassis, which lowers ride height by 10 mm.

The brakes bite more precisely, which makes brake modulation seamlessly intuitive and confidence-inspiring. This is achieved by shortening the brake pedal ratio and the employment of an electric brake booster, which replaces the older pneumatic booster.

Since the rear wheels are now bigger and can accommodate larger discs, the rotor size is up by 20 mm to 350 mm, yet each weigh 300 grammes less than before thanks to new compounds. For track junkies, there’s the optional Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake that’s even lighter and doesn’t fade.

To add salt to injury (die-hard purists would have considered forsaking the 992 by now), the 911 can be specified with a number of driver assistance systems. This includes autonomous emergency braking (AEB), adaptive cruise control with stop-go function, lane keeping assist with traffic sign recognition, lane change assist, park assist with 360-degree view and night vision assist with thermal imaging. Blasphemy, I hear you say?

Well, as with many things, change is inevitable. As Zuffenhausen’s crown jewel, the 911 will continue to evolve unapologetically, and in the case of the 992, that change is for the better. In short, the Carrera S is many times more than good enough for most 911 virgins.

Objectively, the 718 Boxster and Cayman would be the obvious driver’s choice, but the charm in which the 911 radiates is second to none. With over a million collective units sold, it’s impossible to overlook the colossal cult movement a design school dropout instituted 56 years ago. If special is what you’re looking for, then there’s none out there with the legacy to match the Porsche 911. Also, stay in school, yeah?

DRIVEN: 992 Porsche 911 Carrera S in Valencia, Spain Some of the world’s most celebrated individuals are school dropouts. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres and Mark Zuckerberg are some of today’s most distinguished examples.

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Formbric Study

Exploring materiality to form fabric

The study of Formbric is a body of work that undertakes an exploration in materiality to develop physical characteristics that give form to fabric. As the concept has developed through an action research methodology, using fabric as a form with structure has turned seemingly speculative ideas into realistic opportunities. Continuing from an idea developed during Interactive Technology Systems of Semester II of 2017 I was interested in the physical development of a surface that had the ability to retain a shape once moulded.

Hand Made

Copper produced as a wire is available in varying widths, but it wasn’t until I began to play with these variations that I understood how treat each of them. The first action was the manual knitting of 0.63 mm copper, eventually leading to 1 mm copper and wool with the first point of interest being the materiality and structural quality of the product. The initial analysis through the methodology brought forward questions about the material’s scale, automation and interface.

Current

While in an early stage of divergence, my research opened several avenues of interest. One of these being themes of cells and the surfaces they create from Under the Microscope. Enabling the project to be viewed from new perspectives, characteristics of movement from observing the growth of viruses, infections and bacteria under the microscope introduced aspects of shape shifting and the possibility of an autonomous surface (microscopemaster, n.d.).

Most often used for its conductive qualities I was shown an interesting point of research. By experimented with producing a magnetic field through a charged coil of copper and hand knit copper, I was able to produce a surface that independently shook and shivered under the movement of a magnet. Charlotte Alexander’s research through paper “Disabled Monsters” became a spring board in getting to know the possibilities of also producing sound (Alexander, Joseph, & Charlton, 2015). Alexanders work both introduced my concept to coppers abilities and expanded my research on what was possible.

Closely related to this was an area of interest from MIT in their development of Magnetic Hair. Externally controlled much like the magnetised copper experiments, this surface had the ability to control singular water droplets from A to B. Discovering these developments made me question what was possible and what was yet to be discovered. Could this be a possible application to be combined alongside a forming fabric?

With the introduction of independent movement to a surface at the early stages of discovery and development it became critical to step back and question our natural existing relationship with surfaces. How do we naturally want to interact with the surfaces that surround us? Through Zeitguised’s ‘Phygital’ world combinations of digital simulations with cloth and fabrics challenged the audiences reality in what I saw as means of pushing boundaries in order to confront these questions (zeitguised, 2015). Taking these ideas a step further was Hype Cycle: Smart Matter by prototyping elements of interaction (Universal Everything, 2018). There being no doubt that one day most of what we are currently discovering will be the norm, it being interesting to see how we currently perceive these notions and predict them to become normal.

SMA

Expanding on these findings and re searching what was known, Smart Memory Alloy (SMA) was combined to progress my existing experiments. Demonstrated by Artist Ying Gao an interactive commentary was set in motion throughout her collections of ever evolving use of Muscle Wire (Gao, 2017). Her work set out to mimic the data collected from its environment and reflected through subtle movement. Gao’s seamless integration of SMA into her well crafted garments was no mean feat.

Using the SMA myself proved to be far more challenging than expected. The format of the wire was not produced as expected and I struggled with finding a way to integrate it into my knitted prototypes. I believe there to be plenty to discover with muscle wire and its abilities, which was clearly shown through another piece of research by MIT. The autonomous soft earthworm developed at MIT set a new standard for SMA abilities, not only for myself but in the creative industries (Chu, 2012). Pre programmed and constructed from minimal material, their movement and the resulting life like activity presented a reality to the development of other works and yet again sparked questions related to social aspects.

Machine Made

The opportunity to knit at the Textile Design Lab (TDL) with Gordon Fraser became a pivotal point in the study, regarding both machine made methods and manufacturing. Originally thought to be a paradigm shift in textile production with the introduction of spacial design, it turned out that the use of machine knitting brought a wearable element to a more suitable conclusion of the study at this time.

With the limitations of being knitted through a machine the copper needed to be 0.125 mm. Unsure of how the width would be in comparison with what I could hand knit with thicker wire I began by producing a small simple wool and copper knitted pocket. Although not as strong as previous methods it showed promise. At this point I was reminded of Alexander’s work and  running a current through it to test for sound, and even though it was faint the machine knitted pocket was able to produce sound. I continued by knitting solely the copper at a longer length to gage its strength without wool and possibly by double layering it. Much like the pocket knit it proved hopeful but fell short of the strength that would make forming it reliably possible.

Danish Textile company Kvadrat’s perspective on textile design through their Soft Cells project proved to be a positive development in the creative industries and towards my concept. With the aim of producing three-dimensional textile panel systems, we can observe an urge from companies to push textiles to their limits in the pursuit of their goals (Hobson, 2017). The developments of Formbric reflect this movement of bringing textile production into spacial design.

It was at this point that a conversation began between Gordon and I regarding my aims for the textile proved productive. He showed me a basic copper inlay and saw its greater potential than the knit. As a result we worked together to push current boundaries of copper inlay by designing one layered knitted wool to hold an inlay when normally two and the copper is woven back and forth between these layers.

Knowing what was beginning to be possible with these discoveries with the copper inlay I saw further similarities with Swedish family owned and operated company Bolon. Leading the manufacturing for woven vinyl flooring in Europe and globally after inventing the process with their custom machinery (Bolon, 2018). Driving such a large project on a level of constant innovation it was clear to see the potential of combining techniques for cooper to be integrated to textiles on a global scale. Seeing the strength of the thicker hand knitted copper wire and industries driven by innovators who are able to design, produce and manufacture their own concepts there is an opportunity to develop these processes into larger territory.

Having discovered multiple connections between these avenues I began to see the concepts and prototypes I was producing in an area of convergence. Creating new connections and sitting between disciplines allowed my concept to be torn apart and reconstructed in different ways and  be seen through alternative lenses. Without an approach of curiosity the development of understanding materiality and altering characteristics would not of been discovered. I have come to see what I have found as the foundation for great opportunities which extend over multiple disciplines.

Showcasing the studies development in the form of a garment brings ideas of materiality and how we choose to interact with fabric and their forms to a wider audience. Bringing the progress through process to light aims to engage creative industries with development. The study of Formbric through this body of work goes beyond today’s ‘norms’ in an effort to discover possibilities and experiment in the unknown.

References

Alexander, C., Joseph, F., & Charlton, J. (2015). Disabled Monsters: Performing prosthetic technologies and ambivalent bodies: An exegesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Technology (MCT), 2015. Auckland: AUT.

Berman, L. (n.d.). Pink Oyster Mushroom [Photograph]. Botanicals.

Bolofo, K. (2005). Erin O’Connor (detail) [Photograph]. Diva Assolut In Vogue Deutsch (Author).

Bolon. (2018). The Story of Bolon. Retrieved June, 2018, from https://www.bolon.com/en/about/story-of-bolon

Chu, J. (2012, August 10). Soft autonomous robot inches along like an earthworm. Retrieved May, 2018, from http://news.mit.edu/2012/autonomous-earthworm-robot-0810

Cholera Bacteria [Photograph]. (n.d.). Scientific Image, Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility In Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility (Author).

De Simone, A. (2013). Look 16 (detail) [Photograph]. Fall 2013 Ready-to-wear In J. Packham (Author).

Gao, Y. (2017). Ying Gao. Retrieved May, 2018, from http://yinggao.ca/

Hobson, B. (2017, July 14). Textiles are a "simple, smart material" says Kvadrat Soft Cells director. Retrieved June, 2018, from https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/14/video-interview-jesper-nielsen-kvadrat-soft-cells-three-dimensional-acoustic-panels-movie/

Microscopemaster. (n.d.). Bacteria Under The Microscope - Morphology, Discussion, Types, Habitat. Retrieved May, 2018, from https://www.microscopemaster.com/bacteria.html

Universal Everything. (2018, March). Hype Cycle: Smart Matter (16:9). Retrieved May, 2018, from https://vimeo.com/259905335

Zeitguised. (2015, December). GEIST.XYZ. Retrieved April, 2018, from https://www.zeitguised.com/geistxyz#geistxyz01

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DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter

drone flight school 4K UHD Video Camera Drone is another improvement that is put into the DJI's Phantom series. Having a fully stabilized 3-axis 4K UHD camera, this drone is really a masterpiece with regards to taking high-resolution videos and quality photos. Package Content: The 4K UHD camcorder drone can be purchased with a highly competitive price of $1,127.00 (Quadcopter only). By having an additional battery, there is also it at the cost of $1,259.00. Some other accessories making it worthwhile include 4k UHD camcorder with fully stabilized 3-axis gimbal. The inclusion of Lightbridge digital streaming makes viewing of 720p video possible. Flight battery and rechargeable remote controller result in the machine fully set to fly. The drone has also been fitted with DJI Pilot app for android and ios for possible live viewing and total camera management. This device has limitations to flying within 15 miles radius in the White House. The lamp contents are: 1 Aircraft body 4 Propeller Pairs 1 Remote Controller 1 Intelligent Flight Battery 1 Battery Charger 4 Vibration Absorbers 4 Landing Pads 1 Propeller Wrench 1 Power cable 1 Micro-USB Cable One 16GB Micro-SD Card 2 Anti-drop Kit 1 Gimbal Clamp 5 stickers (Gold, Silver, Blue, Red, Pink) 1 Phantom 3 Professional/Advanced Safety Guidelines, and Disclaimer (Manual) 1 Phantom 3 Professional/Advanced Intelligent Flight Battery Safety Guidelines (Manual) 1 Phantom 3 Professional Quick Start Guide (Manual)

Detailed Description: The Phantom 3 Professional will continue to conserve the innovation and artistic qualities the DJI's Phantom series is recognized for. The fully stabilized 3-axis 4K UHD camcorder supplies a innovative for crispy, smooth videos, and then for still photos. The inclusion of your new generation of Lightbridge technologies are to restore not hard for 720p HD digital streaming of live video away from the drone. Controlling from the camera and seeing videos instantly may be possible as one flies this finest quality drone. The DJI Pilot app's advanced features let you share videos as is also produced. The Phantom Professional also includes optical and ultrasonic sensors often known as Vision Positioning, to let you fly this drone indoors regardless if GPS signally is absent. What's more, it has all features expected in almost any DJI drone. Included in this are high-power flight battery, a strong mobile app for Android devices or iOS, Global positioning system including auto takeoffs and auto landings, along with a built-in safety database containing a directory of no-fly zones. Note: DJI has put some restriction measures in position to avoid your device from to be able to operate within a 15 miles radius in the White House. Also included in this no-fly zone are Arlington, Silver Spring, Prince Georges County, Montgomery County and Falls Church. Your engine is automatically turn off once within this zone, though DJI doesn't warn you of the issue prior to making your purchase. However, once you are out of your 15 miles radius, your drone should work perfectly fine. For more info about faa practice test check out this useful net page.

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Automation Personnel Services - Document Management Specialist

The North Houston Branch of Automation Personnel Services is looking for a detail oriented Document Management Specialist for a client in the North Houston area. The ideal candidate must have great communication skills and the ability to work independently. This is a temp to hire opportunity. The main focus for this position will be to establish a system of archiving our documentation. The documents vary from engineering drawings, to project files, to electronic versions of material test reports, etc. Other duties include supporting each department with administrative tasks. The ideal candidate would have document management experience and must be detail oriented and self-reliant. Pay range is $17-20/hour DOE. 

Document Management Tasks Develop, document, or maintain standards, best practices, or system usage procedures. Exercise security surveillance over document processing, reproduction, distribution, storage, or archiving. Write, review, or execute plans for testing new or established document management systems. Search electronic sources, such as databases or repositories, or manual sources for information. Retrieve electronic assets from repository for distribution to users, collecting and returning to repository, if necessary. Propose recommendations for improving content management system capabilities. Prepare support documentation and training materials for end users of document management systems. Implement scanning or other automated data entry procedures, using imaging devices and document imaging software. Consult with end users regarding problems in accessing electronic content. Conduct needs assessments to identify document management requirements of departments or end users. Assist in determining document management policies to facilitate efficient, legal, and secure access to electronic content. Operate data capture technology to import digitized documents into document management system. Administer document and system access rights and revision control to ensure security of system and integrity of master documents. Identify and classify documents or other electronic content according to characteristics such as security level, function, and metadata. Prepare and record changes to official documents and confirm changes with legal and compliance management staff, including enterprise-wide records management staff. Administrative Tasks Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals. Greet visitors or callers and handle their inquiries or direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs. Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail or other materials and answer routine letters. Order and dispense supplies. Create, maintain, and enter information into databases. Operate office equipment, such as fax machines, copiers, or phone systems and arrange for repairs when equipment malfunctions. Compile, copy, sort, and file records of office activities, business transactions, and other activities. Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes. Debit, credit, and total accounts on computer spreadsheets and databases, using specialized accounting software. Classify, record, and summarize numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers. Code documents according to company procedures. Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers. Match order forms with invoices, and record the necessary information. -Background Check Required -Drug Screen Required Call or come in today for an immediate interview! Or submit your resume to apshoustonnorth@apstemps.com. IND123LI We are located at: North Houston Branch 2129 FM 2920 (in the HEB Shopping center) Suite 200 Spring, TX 77388 Phone number (832)585-5906 

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Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future

In spring 2015 I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale to determine whether it was possible to automate content creation with artificial intelligence. Specifically, I wanted to figure out, could we use machines to write blog posts at scale?

The idea was inspired by a SXSW session I attended that year featuring the managing editor of the Associated Press and the CEO of Automated Insights, a company that uses a form of artificial intelligence called natural-language generation (NLG) to create content. The presenters shared how the AP went from publishing 300 earnings reports per quarter written by humans to 3,000 per quarter written 100% by machines using Automated Insights technology. The implications to content marketing, in my mind, were immense.

Since that time, my agency, PR 20/20, has implemented NLG to produce Google Analytics reports (reducing analysis and production time by more than 80%), and has begun building pilot programs to automate data-driven premium content. Along the way, we launched the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute to tell the story of AI through the technology leaders building the solutions and the marketers who are using AI to evolve their businesses and careers.

What we’ve learned has altered my view of what’s possible today and in the years ahead.

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What is artificial intelligence?

Consider how much time your team spends discovering keywords; planning blog post topics; writing, optimizing, personalizing, and automating content; testing landing pages; scheduling social shares; reviewing analytics; and defining content strategies.

Now imagine if a machine performed the majority of those activities and a marketer’s primary role was to enhance rather than create. Machines are not going to replace content marketers in the near term, but artificial intelligence is accelerating us toward a more intelligently automated future.

#ArtificialIntelligence is accelerating us toward a more intelligently automated future, says @paulroetzer. Click To Tweet

Artificial intelligence is a broad term that refers to the technologies and processes of making machines smart, which in turn augments human knowledge and capabilities. This includes increasingly popular terms such as machine learning, deep learning, image recognition, natural-language processing, and cognitive computing.

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but its use is widespread among companies we interact with daily. Netflix employs AI to recommend shows. Amazon uses it to power Alexa and create personalized online experiences for shoppers. UPS applies it to determine optimal delivery paths for its 55,000 daily routes around the world. Tesla powers its Autopilot autonomous-driving feature with deep learning. Facebook uses image recognition to identify faces in photos and machine learning to filter newsfeeds. Google’s RankBrain algorithm drives search results. And, Apple uses natural-language processing to recognize questions and provide answers with Siri.

At its core, AI is powered by data and algorithms that enable machines to learn and evolve on their own. In traditional software, humans write algorithms or sets of instructions that tell a machine what to do. For example, in marketing automation software, a marketer may instruct the machine to send a three-part email campaign once someone downloads an e-book. In isolation, this is a relatively simple task for a human to plan and perform.

But, what if there are 10,000 e-book downloads, across five personas, originating from multiple channels (social, paid, organic, direct) that require personalized emails and website experiences based on user history? No human brain is wired to solve that challenge and no existing software is optimized to visualize all the possibilities. This is where AI excels. It takes specific and complex data-driven problems, then devises and executes solutions.

Think about all the data flooding in from social media, CRM, sales, advertising, remarketing, e-commerce, and mobile. Every source offers valuable information, but humans have a finite ability to process that data, build intelligent strategies, create content at scale, and achieve performance potential. Artificial intelligence, in contrast, has an infinite ability to discover insights, deliver predictions, make strategic recommendations, and create content better, faster, and cheaper.

While the content marketing AI space is in its infancy, there are dozens of emerging AI-powered tools built to help marketers plan, create, optimize, personalize, promote, and measure content more effectively and efficiently.

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How to get started

The key thing to know about AI is that it is largely intended to augment human knowledge and capabilities, not replace them. What can content marketers do?

AI is intended to augment human knowledge & capabilities, not replace them, says @paulroetzer. Click To Tweet

First, evaluate repetitive, manual marketing tasks that could be intelligently automated. Research the AI capabilities of your existing marketing technology stack, such as your automation and CRM platforms, and explore the potential of AI solutions dedicated to specific content marketing needs through a technology marketplace like G2 Crowd.

Second, assess opportunities to get more out of your data – discover insights, predict outcomes, devise strategies, personalize content across channels, and tell stories at scale. Consider the free version of IBM Watson Analytics as a gateway to begin exploring data in new ways.

And, finally, gain a competitive advantage through constant learning. You are not alone if you feel overwhelmed and confused by AI and all its related terms. Be deliberate in your efforts to consume articles, blog posts, podcasts, presentations, reports, and books on the topic.

Now is the time to begin learning about the present and future potential of artificial intelligence, and connect with AI-powered technologies that can drive marketing performance and transform your career.

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How AI tech is working today

As the applications for AI in marketing become more compelling, technology companies are racing in to meet the need. Below are some of the top tech companies in the marketing AI space, as well as some examples of their work.

Adgorithms

Adgorithms uses predictive analytics “to execute on data-driven actions, and deep learning technology to act effortlessly on unpredictable situations that would traditionally require decision-making and reasoning by a human marketer,” explains Or Shani, CEO of Adgorithms.

Harley-Davidson NYC uses Adgorithms to optimize its ad spend in New York City. The software helps the brand isolate and target a narrow audience in a crowded market across channels.

Automated Insights

Automated Insights leveraged its success with the Associated Press and other enterprises to build the industry’s first do-it-yourself natural-language-generation platform.

Car shopping website Edmunds uses Automated Insights’ software to continuously update content on its website, where thousands of pages of detailed vehicle profiles are written based on manufacturer data.

Real-estate website Homesnap publishes individual listings supplemented by AI-created community profiles – all automatically generated based on publicly available demographic, crime, and property value data.

Boomtrain

Boomtrain uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to drive increased clicks, engagement, and revenue through customer communication. It helps companies serve content that’s most likely to engage an individual reader, and delivers it through multiple channels in real time. Its customers – including Forbes, CBS, Chow.com, The Onion – are primarily in the publishing, travel, and e-commerce verticals.

OneSpot

OneSpot personalizes content across digital channels for big brands like L’Oréal, IBM, Whole Foods Market, and Delta Faucet.

OneSpot helps Nestlé serve hyper-personalized content for readers in real time, plus it feeds intelligence back to Nestlé about how users interact with the content – all put to use in rapid-fire decision-making about marketing spend and editorial focus.

Narrative Science

Narrative Science’s natural-language-generation software, Quill, helps companies like Groupon, MasterCard, and Franklin Templeton Investments convert data into stories – these stories inform everything from decision-making to employee productivity and customer experience.

USAA uses Quill to drive member engagement through automated custom narratives.

Deloitte leverages natural-language generation to innovate anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption practices.

Credit Suisse includes automated narratives in its investment-research platform to enhance visualizations with insights.

Persado

The company’s cognitive content platform “arms organizations and individuals with smart content that maximizes the efficacy of communication with any audience at scale, while delivering unique insight into the specific triggers that drive action.” In a sign of its success, Persado counts dozens of top companies among its roster, including Neiman Marcus, Angie’s List, Expedia, Zipcar, and Verizon.

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3 things to know about AI

Artificial intelligence can be intimidating, but it does not have to be. You do not need to understand how it works to comprehend what it is capable of achieving.

The reality is that AI possesses the ability to dramatically enhance content marketers’ capabilities and performance. As the technology advances, AI will become more accessible and prevalent in every software product that we use. Here are three quick insights to get you heading down the path to AI enlightenment:

It is still early. Many of the rising AI tech companies have significant venture-capital funding but limited market success to prove that the products work and the models are scalable. While there have been tremendous advances in AI capabilities, most marketing solutions are narrow in application and require tremendous amounts of human time and guidance to deliver on the value promised.

Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of data (structured and unstructured) and customized solutions, so large enterprises are more likely to see short-term benefits from AI investments.

There is a push to make AI technology more affordable and accessible. As companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM continue to open up their AI technology, more businesses will explore the possibilities. The challenge will be finding technical talent capable of building and executing AI solutions.

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Circuit Breaker Bookings

CAT circuit breaker analyzers and timers are advanced standalone or a PC controlled instruments for circuit breaker maintenance. Santon has developed Sidunn conversion sets for the installation of new Merlin Gerin Masterpact NT or NW circuit- breakers in existing distribution equipment for the replacement of obsolete circuit-breakers. Our circuit breakers are applied in panelboards, switchboards, motor control centers, control panels, combination starters, individual enclosures, and bus duct plug-in units. With this functionality, different Apply Circuit Breaker assertions can allow their nested policy to execute for some requests, but not others. A  high voltage fuse cutout sales price acts as a proxy for operations that might fail. When electricity enters your home, it goes to a circuit breaker box (or fuse box in older homes), where it's divided into a number of circuits. The circuit breaks after a specified number of latency failures. Unlike their market-wide counterparts, these individual circuit breakers go into effect whether the price moves up or down. You can create dynamic circuits at runtime by configuring the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion to use context variables in a Custom Event Tracker ID. These dynamic circuits apply to the same blocks of policy, but have different failure event histories and circuit states since they have different Event Trackers. These are used on overhead electric power distribution systems, to prevent short duration faults from causing sustained outages. This technological breakthrough is combined with new embedded predictive power management software, protection algorithms and higher levels of connectivity. This condition can create conductive ionized gases and molten or vaporized metal, which can cause further continuation of the arc, or creation of additional short circuits, potentially resulting in the explosion of the circuit breaker and the equipment that it is installed in. Therefore, circuit breakers must incorporate various features to divide and extinguish the arc. E, a 20-amp breaker with thicker, No. 12 wire can carry more current than a 15-amp circuit with No. 14 wire. If you experience tripping of the circuit breakers quite frequently, it is time to call in the professionals to investigate the problem. When the Policy Failure Circuit trips, routing for all the developers cease, even if their requests were succeeding. 3WL air circuit breakers are available in four sizes, each featuring a 3- and 4-pole design, and cover a power range from 630 A to 6,300 A. The modular portfolio offers flexibility and provides for easy assembly and subsequent adjustment. MasterPact NT and NW UL 489 listed is a range of air circuit breakers designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads, short circuits and equipment ground faults, and complying with UL 489 requirements. Here you will find important information, documents, and addresses relating to low-voltage power distribution and electrical installation technology. Its speed maximizes the performance of power distribution systems, while maintaining service continuity. When an emergency or disaster strikes, CBS Northeast has dedicated engineers, technicians, complete manufacturing facilities including sheet-metal machining capability, and a huge inventory of all manufacturers' obsolete, surplus, and new electrical equipment and replacement parts, enabling us to restore your power quickly and safely. The proxy should monitor the number of recent failures that have occurred, and use this information to decide whether to allow the operation to proceed, or simply return an exception immediately. These typically require a separate power source, such as a battery , although some high-voltage circuit breakers are self-contained with current transformers , protective relays , and an internal control power source. The purpose of the timeout timer is to give the system time to fix the problem that caused the failure before allowing the application to try to perform the operation again. In every interval, failure records older than the interval are removed from Event Trackers (for example, using the default value: every 10 minutes, failures older than 10 minutes are removed).

Thanks to investments from three of the four largest circuit breaker manufacturers, Siemens, ABB, and Eaton, Atom Power hopes to meet the challenge and continue their pathbreaking work shaping the future of networked power. They are the most commonly used circuit breakers in the USA. Short CircuitsAnother common reason why circuit breakers trip is a short circuit, which is more dangerous than an overloaded circuit. After one failure we are opening the circuit which will be half-open again after 5000 ms. Operations time out after 2000 ms. If a fallback is specified, it will be called only in case of an open circuit. These faults can range in severity from a partial loss of connectivity to the complete failure of a service. The system of circuit breakers has been revised several times based on feedback from past crises. Once the failures reach a certain threshold, the circuit breaker trips, and all further calls to the circuit breaker return with an error, without the protected call being made at all. Timeouts are used in almost every application to avoid requests getting stuck forever. High current air circuit breakers up to 5000 A complying with UL 489 standard. High current air circuit breakers up to 6300 A embedding advanced digital technologies. Should we get a timeout, we increment the failure counter, successful calls reset it back to zero. Callbacks can be used eg. to collect statistics about all invocations or to react on specific call results like success, failures or timeouts. Remember, the circuit breaker, wire and wire insulation are all designed and sized to work together—safely. By default, one circuit breaker instance is used for all calls (methods) to another service. Molded case circuit breakers from 630 to 3200 A. ComPact NS is a range of molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) with embedded MicroLogic control units for built-in power & energy metering. A short circuit is a more serious reason for a breaker tripping. This will lead to the overheating of the circuit which puts all the electrical appliances connected to the circuit at risk. We can deliver these Circuit Breakers from our specialized warehouse and deliver those breakers overnight wherever you're based in the world. In this task, you will configure circuit breaking rules and then test the configuration by intentionally tripping” the circuit breaker. The proxy maintains a count of the number of recent failures, and if the call to the operation is unsuccessful the proxy increments this count. Circuit Breaker Dashboard provides Spring applications with an implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern. Like a circuit breaker in an electrical circuit, the software version allows flow to a service to be shut off. A circuit breaker is a switching device that interrupts the abnormal or fault current. Operations guarded by a circuit breaker are intended to be non-blocking and asynchronous in order to benefit from the Vert.x execution model. Sample size (requests): The number of samples to take for a circuit breaker window. Circuit breakers are individual on a single host, they do not centralise or pool back-end data. The ABB solid-state breaker concept works by replacing the traditional moving parts of an electro-mechanical circuit breaker with power electronics and advanced software algorithms that control the power and can interrupt extreme currents faster than ever before. In small mains and low voltage circuit breakers, this is usually done within the device itself. The failure of one service can potentially cascade to other services throughout the application. We make energy-saving proposals according to our customers' energy environment in areas ranging from quality assurance and protection of high-voltage electric power to management of low-voltage consumption rate. Most of today's homes now use circuit breakers to offer this control and protection to individual circuits, but older homes that have not had their electrical systems upgraded may use fuses. In a system where the recovery time for a failing operation is extremely variable, it's beneficial to provide a manual reset option that enables an administrator to close a circuit breaker (and reset the failure counter).

By default, the used address is vertx.circuit-breaker. At some point your application will need to account for the circuit breaker pattern; common responses include providing a default value or (if possible) ignoring the existence of the service. The Retry pattern enables an application to retry an operation in the expectation that it'll succeed. For example, in the event of an electrical fault in a 4MW utility-scale battery system, the new solid-state circuit breaker can prevent losses of up to $100,000 per plant from missed energy remuneration and system recovery costs. This page is designed to assist all customers using legacy F-frame circuit breakers with the transition to PowerPact B or other PowerPact circuit breakers. With industry leading innovations and exclusive features, Square D Homeline Circuit Breakers are the smart, safe, reliable choice. In fact, many planners believe that to accommodate growing demand for electrical power, much of it from renewables, the main and secondary trunk lines of the current AC electrical grid should be converted to DC. But that conversion would require new designs for grid components, such as circuit breakers, that can handle DC power. The fallback callback will be used if the distant service is unreachable when the Circuit Breaker is Open (means "is used" if the service is unreachable). These circuit breakers are applied in panelboards, switchboards, motor control centers, control panels, combination starters, individual enclosures, and bus duct plug-in units. Generally used in a loadcenter, panelboard, or similar device, industrial miniature circuit breakers are a specific type of circuit breaker, used to switch and protect the lowest common distribution voltage in an electrical system. In its default configuration, the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion sets no Custom Event Trackers. The Akka library provides an implementation of a circuit breaker called akka.pattern.CircuitBreaker which has the behavior described below. Trough our sales office based in Rotterdam we can deliver Miniature Moulded Case or Air Circuit Breakers from 6 Ampere up to 6300 Ampere. Lagom's client maps all 4xx and 5xx responses to Exceptions and Lagom's Circuit Breaker defaults to considering all Exceptions as failures. Similarly, an administrator could force a circuit breaker into the Open state (and restart the timeout timer) if the operation protected by the circuit breaker is temporarily unavailable. Circuit breaker MCCB intended for photovoltaic power generation. When the circuit is "open", calls to the circuit breaker fail immediately, without any attempt to execute the real operation. Circuit breakers function by temporarily halting trading when prices hit predefined levels, such as a 14% intraday drop for the S&P 500 , or a 15% rise in a company's share price over five minutes. Neither ordinary circuit breakers nor fuses offer any protection against arc faults. A flexible, high-performance offer, certified to global standards from 240 to 3000 A. The PowerPact M-frame, P-frame, and R-frame circuit breakers are designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads and short circuits. A particular type of short circuit, a " ground-fault ," occurs if a hot wire comes in contact with a ground wire or a metal wall box or touches wood framing members. Similarly, a circuit breaker could fluctuate and reduce the response times of applications if it switches from the Open state to the Half-Open state too quickly. ComPact NSX is a full range of high performance molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) in 2 frame sizes designed to meet your needs from thermal-magnetic to advanced MicroLogic trip units. You can define one or more circuits per instance of the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion. Even though the tripping of circuit breakers ensures safety, it can get quite frustrating to constantly experience them and getting the power back on repeatedly. When the percentage of free heap memory is less than memory_threshold, and the CPU time spent doing garbage collection is greater than gc_cpu_threshold, the circuit breaker trips.

Tyk has a built-in circuit breaker pattern as a path-based option. Health Endpoint Monitoring pattern A circuit breaker might be able to test the health of a service by sending a request to an endpoint exposed by the service. Battery storage solutions: In case of a fault, the solid-state circuit breaker disconnects the faulty zone only, which avoids all the rack fuses blowing up and the resultant shut down of the whole system. CircuitBreaker doesn't support Tell Protection (protecting against calls that expect a reply) natively at the moment, so you need to use the low-level power-user APIs, succeed and fail methods, as well as isClose, isOpen, isHalfOpen to implement it. For a grid-connected solar home, for example, residents sometimes have to disconnect their solar input because traditional power systems (including the circuit breakers) aren't advanced enough to properly manage multiple power sources that change. The timeout pattern is pretty straightforward and many HTTP clients have a default timeout configured. The animation below shows the payment service waiting for the response from the fraud check service and aborting the operation after the timeout exceeded. You likely already know where your main service panel is located and whether your system uses circuit breakers or fuses. High current air circuit breakers for Navy applications up to 4000 A. MasterPact NT and NW Navy is a range of air circuit breakers designed to protect electrical systems from damage caused by overloads, short circuits and equipment ground faults, complying with Navy requirements. The CorePower® DC or AC Electronic Circuit Breaker Unit replaces conventional thermal mechanical circuit breakers and functions as both a breaker and a switch for controlling loads. Engineered for value, Homeline Circuit Breakers are designed for fast installation, reliability, and superior circuit protection. To prevent an application from trying to invoke a remote service or access a shared resource if this operation is highly likely to fail. If on the other hand an error or timeout is received, we trigger a fail and the breaker accrues this failure towards its count for opening the breaker. Miniature and molded-case circuit breakers are usually discarded when the contacts have worn, but power circuit breakers and high-voltage circuit breakers have replaceable contacts. Our 21st Century circuit breaker technology can better meet the demands of renewables, the electrification of transport and modern edge grids as today`s offerings,” said Giampiero Frisio, the head of ABB's Smart Power business line. Wrapping the logic that connects to the service and retrieves the data in a circuit breaker could help to solve this problem and handle the service failure more elegantly. If the timeout is too long, a thread running a circuit breaker might be blocked for an extended period before the circuit breaker indicates that the operation has failed. A direct current grid would need circuit breakers in the high-voltage transmission lines that take power to a city, and in the medium-voltage distribution lines that branch out and take power to city neighborhoods. Eaton's residential circuit breakers are used in load centers, panelboards, or similar devices. Level 3 circuit breakers halt trading for the remainder of the trading day (9:30 AM to 4:00 PM). When you apply a circuit breaker to a method, Hystrix watches for failing calls to that method, and, if failures build up to a threshold, Hystrix opens the circuit so that subsequent calls automatically fail. The solid-state circuit breaker will be around 100 times faster than traditional electro-mechanical breakers. An ECB simplifies aircraft electrical systems by integrating breaker, switch, and relay functions into a single solid-state device with no inherent wear-out mechanism, dramatically improving reliability. The solution has the same footprint as ComPact NSX circuit breakers and comes with compatible accessories up to 630 A. Small circuit breakers typically have a manual control lever to switch off the load or reset a tripped breaker, while larger units use solenoids to trip the mechanism, and electric motors to restore energy to the springs.

Ground fault protection or monitoring from 30mA to 30A. Circuit breakers below rated voltage of 1000V are known as the low voltage circuit breakers and above 1000V are called the high voltage circuit breakers. In terms of the physics involved, a short circuit allows for a sudden unimpeded flow of electricity due to lowered resistance, and this sudden increase in current flow within the breaker causes the tripping mechanism to activate. Circuit breakers are measures used to curb panic-selling on U.S. stock exchanges. If the operation fails, an exception handler calls TrackException, which sets the circuit breaker state to open. In that case you can add ".transport.NotFound" to the circuit breaker whitelist so that it is not considered a failure. The circuit breaks after a certain number of child policy failures, within a given sampling window (for example, "over the last 5 seconds"). Circuit OverloadsA circuit overload is one of the main reasons why circuit breakers trip constantly. PEARL membership is validation of our longstanding commitment to quality and adherence to the highest standards, and strict technical, safety, and operational requirements to ensure the proper recycling and reuse of electrical power equipment. Circuit breakers are a valuable place for monitoring. You can use Hystrix with Vert.x instead of this circuit breaker or in combination of. This section describes the tricks to use Hystrix in a vert.x application. 3VA molded case circuit breakers. If that call succeeds, the circuit is closed; if it fails, however, the circuit is opened again until another timeout i.e. 60 seconds elapses. Circuit breakers are brought into effect if trading occurs outside of these predefined parameters. When the circuit breaker detects early symptoms of memory exhaustion, it automatically "trips" and limits instrumentation. Air circuit breakers—Rated current up to 6,300 A and higher for generator circuit breakers. The Trip method switches the state of the circuit breaker to the open state and records the exception that caused the change in state, together with the date and time that the exception occurred. When too many appliances or light fixtures are operating at the same time, the internal sensing mechanism in the circuit breaker heats up, and the breaker "trips," usually by means of a spring-loaded component within the breaker. These should be used in conjunction with judicious timeouts at the interfaces between remote systems to prevent the failure of a single component from bringing down all components. Here's a simple example of this behavior in Ruby, protecting against timeouts. As with hard shorts, if a ground fault is present, the circuit breaker may trip again immediately after you reset it. In software, a circuit breaker protects your services from being spammed while already being partly unavailable due to high load. In the case of circuit breakers, the immediate answer is to find the breaker that has tripped and reset the lever to the ON position. According to Wikipedia the definition of Circuit Breaker in Electrical technology. For electricity grids, the introduction of the new ABB concept circuit breaker is as dramatic as the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors, which heralded the start of the digital age. You will use this client to trip” the circuit breaker policies you set in the DestinationRule. And you probably also know that when all the lights and fixtures in a portion of the house go dark or dead at the same time, it's because one of those circuit breakers has "tripped" or one of those fuses as blown. GE's solution for Pumped Storage Power Plant (PSPP) offers an integrated package of protection schemes, including generator circuit breaker, phase reverse disconnector, braking, starting and back-to-back switches. Should the call succeed, the circuit breaker resets and returns to the closed state, ready for more routine operation. Shunt trips may be a user fitted accessory to a standard breaker, or supplied as an integral part of the circuit breaker. Once you have a circuit mapped out and the electrical loads added up, you'll be able to tell if you can plug more devices into the circuit without overloading it.

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Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future

In spring 2015 I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale to determine whether it was possible to automate content creation with artificial intelligence. Specifically, I wanted to figure out, could we use machines to write blog posts at scale?

The idea was inspired by a SXSW session I attended that year featuring the managing editor of the Associated Press and the CEO of Automated Insights, a company that uses a form of artificial intelligence called natural-language generation (NLG) to create content. The presenters shared how the AP went from publishing 300 earnings reports per quarter written by humans to 3,000 per quarter written 100% by machines using Automated Insights technology. The implications to content marketing, in my mind, were immense.

Since that time, my agency, PR 20/20, has implemented NLG to produce Google Analytics reports (reducing analysis and production time by more than 80%), and has begun building pilot programs to automate data-driven premium content. Along the way, we launched the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute to tell the story of AI through the technology leaders building the solutions and the marketers who are using AI to evolve their businesses and careers.

What we’ve learned has altered my view of what’s possible today and in the years ahead.

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What is artificial intelligence?

Consider how much time your team spends discovering keywords; planning blog post topics; writing, optimizing, personalizing, and automating content; testing landing pages; scheduling social shares; reviewing analytics; and defining content strategies.

Now imagine if a machine performed the majority of those activities and a marketer’s primary role was to enhance rather than create. Machines are not going to replace content marketers in the near term, but artificial intelligence is accelerating us toward a more intelligently automated future.

#ArtificialIntelligence is accelerating us toward a more intelligently automated future, says @paulroetzer. Click To Tweet

Artificial intelligence is a broad term that refers to the technologies and processes of making machines smart, which in turn augments human knowledge and capabilities. This includes increasingly popular terms such as machine learning, deep learning, image recognition, natural-language processing, and cognitive computing.

Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but its use is widespread among companies we interact with daily. Netflix employs AI to recommend shows. Amazon uses it to power Alexa and create personalized online experiences for shoppers. UPS applies it to determine optimal delivery paths for its 55,000 daily routes around the world. Tesla powers its Autopilot autonomous-driving feature with deep learning. Facebook uses image recognition to identify faces in photos and machine learning to filter newsfeeds. Google’s RankBrain algorithm drives search results. And, Apple uses natural-language processing to recognize questions and provide answers with Siri.

At its core, AI is powered by data and algorithms that enable machines to learn and evolve on their own. In traditional software, humans write algorithms or sets of instructions that tell a machine what to do. For example, in marketing automation software, a marketer may instruct the machine to send a three-part email campaign once someone downloads an e-book. In isolation, this is a relatively simple task for a human to plan and perform.

But, what if there are 10,000 e-book downloads, across five personas, originating from multiple channels (social, paid, organic, direct) that require personalized emails and website experiences based on user history? No human brain is wired to solve that challenge and no existing software is optimized to visualize all the possibilities. This is where AI excels. It takes specific and complex data-driven problems, then devises and executes solutions.

Think about all the data flooding in from social media, CRM, sales, advertising, remarketing, e-commerce, and mobile. Every source offers valuable information, but humans have a finite ability to process that data, build intelligent strategies, create content at scale, and achieve performance potential. Artificial intelligence, in contrast, has an infinite ability to discover insights, deliver predictions, make strategic recommendations, and create content better, faster, and cheaper.

While the content marketing AI space is in its infancy, there are dozens of emerging AI-powered tools built to help marketers plan, create, optimize, personalize, promote, and measure content more effectively and efficiently.

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How to get started

The key thing to know about AI is that it is largely intended to augment human knowledge and capabilities, not replace them. What can content marketers do?

AI is intended to augment human knowledge & capabilities, not replace them, says @paulroetzer. Click To Tweet

First, evaluate repetitive, manual marketing tasks that could be intelligently automated. Research the AI capabilities of your existing marketing technology stack, such as your automation and CRM platforms, and explore the potential of AI solutions dedicated to specific content marketing needs through a technology marketplace like G2 Crowd.

Second, assess opportunities to get more out of your data – discover insights, predict outcomes, devise strategies, personalize content across channels, and tell stories at scale. Consider the free version of IBM Watson Analytics as a gateway to begin exploring data in new ways.

And, finally, gain a competitive advantage through constant learning. You are not alone if you feel overwhelmed and confused by AI and all its related terms. Be deliberate in your efforts to consume articles, blog posts, podcasts, presentations, reports, and books on the topic.

Now is the time to begin learning about the present and future potential of artificial intelligence, and connect with AI-powered technologies that can drive marketing performance and transform your career.

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How AI tech is working today

As the applications for AI in marketing become more compelling, technology companies are racing in to meet the need. Below are some of the top tech companies in the marketing AI space, as well as some examples of their work.

Adgorithms

Adgorithms uses predictive analytics “to execute on data-driven actions, and deep learning technology to act effortlessly on unpredictable situations that would traditionally require decision-making and reasoning by a human marketer,” explains Or Shani, CEO of Adgorithms.

Harley-Davidson NYC uses Adgorithms to optimize its ad spend in New York City. The software helps the brand isolate and target a narrow audience in a crowded market across channels.

Automated Insights

Automated Insights leveraged its success with the Associated Press and other enterprises to build the industry’s first do-it-yourself natural-language-generation platform.

Car shopping website Edmunds uses Automated Insights’ software to continuously update content on its website, where thousands of pages of detailed vehicle profiles are written based on manufacturer data.

Real-estate website Homesnap publishes individual listings supplemented by AI-created community profiles – all automatically generated based on publicly available demographic, crime, and property value data.

Boomtrain

Boomtrain uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to drive increased clicks, engagement, and revenue through customer communication. It helps companies serve content that’s most likely to engage an individual reader, and delivers it through multiple channels in real time. Its customers – including Forbes, CBS, Chow.com, The Onion – are primarily in the publishing, travel, and e-commerce verticals.

OneSpot

OneSpot personalizes content across digital channels for big brands like L’Oréal, IBM, Whole Foods Market, and Delta Faucet.

OneSpot helps Nestlé serve hyper-personalized content for readers in real time, plus it feeds intelligence back to Nestlé about how users interact with the content – all put to use in rapid-fire decision-making about marketing spend and editorial focus.

Narrative Science

Narrative Science’s natural-language-generation software, Quill, helps companies like Groupon, MasterCard, and Franklin Templeton Investments convert data into stories – these stories inform everything from decision-making to employee productivity and customer experience.

USAA uses Quill to drive member engagement through automated custom narratives.

Deloitte leverages natural-language generation to innovate anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption practices.

Credit Suisse includes automated narratives in its investment-research platform to enhance visualizations with insights.

Persado

The company’s cognitive content platform “arms organizations and individuals with smart content that maximizes the efficacy of communication with any audience at scale, while delivering unique insight into the specific triggers that drive action.” In a sign of its success, Persado counts dozens of top companies among its roster, including Neiman Marcus, Angie’s List, Expedia, Zipcar, and Verizon.

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3 things to know about AI

Artificial intelligence can be intimidating, but it does not have to be. You do not need to understand how it works to comprehend what it is capable of achieving.

The reality is that AI possesses the ability to dramatically enhance content marketers’ capabilities and performance. As the technology advances, AI will become more accessible and prevalent in every software product that we use. Here are three quick insights to get you heading down the path to AI enlightenment:

It is still early. Many of the rising AI tech companies have significant venture-capital funding but limited market success to prove that the products work and the models are scalable. While there have been tremendous advances in AI capabilities, most marketing solutions are narrow in application and require tremendous amounts of human time and guidance to deliver on the value promised.

Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of data (structured and unstructured) and customized solutions, so large enterprises are more likely to see short-term benefits from AI investments.

There is a push to make AI technology more affordable and accessible. As companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM continue to open up their AI technology, more businesses will explore the possibilities. The challenge will be finding technical talent capable of building and executing AI solutions.

Finding technical talent capable of building & executing AI solutions will be a challenge. @paulroetzer Click To Tweet

A version of this article originally appeared in the April issue of Chief Content Officer. Sign up to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.

Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute

Please note:  All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Feel free to include additional tools in the comments (from your company or ones that you have used).

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