Averting excavation disaster

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The Construction Automation and Robotics Laboratory at North Carolina State University has developed the Buried Utility Detection System, an instrument that can scan a work site for buried utilities that can be directly attached to digging equipment. Excavator operators can thus reexamine a work site for incorrectly marked utility lines or those not known to be present in the area. The location and detection system, jointly created by CARL head Leonhard Bernold and graduate student Xiaodong Huang, can help minimize or eliminate accidents and the resulting costs.

Research, Product development, Detection equipment, North Carolina State University, Underground utility lines, Detectors

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Recipes for disaster

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AT and T Bell Laboratories Administrative Systems has furnished a list of quick fixes and false starts that the organization has experienced during quality training. The list serves as a guide for any businesses that are about to embark on similar venture. Among the things to seriously consider include the willingness to learn from experience and the ability to impart that knowledge to employees, the importance for senior managers to act as good models of behavior, the capacity to utilize employee expertise and effective customer focus.

Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Training, Lucent Technologies Inc. Bell Laboratories

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Dangerous crossroads, or how to avoid collisions with finance

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Industrial researchers should educate themselves about finance since without finances or money, their work cannot proceed and their goals will not be attained. Researchers should not blame executives with MBA degrees for any of their financial troubles. An MBA degree is, in fact, important since those with the degree are able to express concepts such as performance and purpose in financial terms. Research administrators who can speak the language of finance will be more capable of maintaining the support of their sponsors.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research & Development-Industry, Financial Management, Analysis, Management, Finance, Industrial research, Research administrators

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