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Jj888

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Most civilian jet liner program suffer delay just follow the US or Japanese program!
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Now Boeing want to cut cost and speed up the production of Max 737 The result is crash!

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The more I studied the crash, the more I realized the media wasn’t telling the full story. That’s the purpose of this essay.

Why did the 737 Max crash? Because of a software failure.

Why did the software fail? Because Boeing’s executive team has lowered its engineering standards.

Why did Boeing lower its engineering standards? To lower costs and increase efficiency — the goal was to save money.
So management can collect fat bonuses!

At what costs?
 

Hendrik_2000

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There are many example of Western Aerospace company program that experience delay and snafu I guess the poster child is F35
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But many other like A400 program too suffering delay and snafu
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Delays and problems[
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On 9 January 2009,
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announced that the first delivery was postponed from 2009 until at least 2012, and indicated that it wanted to renegotiate.
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EADS maintained the first deliveries would begin three years after the first flight. In January 2009,
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reported that the A400M was overweight by 12 tons and may not meet a key performance requirement, the ability to airlift 32 tons; sources told FTD that it could only lift 29 tons, insufficient to carry an
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In response to the report, the chief of the
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stated: "That is a disastrous development," and could delay deliveries to the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) until 2014.
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The Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the Luftwaffe was later delayed and alternatives, such as a higher integration of European airlift capabilities, were studied.

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Huawei ranks No. 1 both in China and globally in the inverter business, a vital device used in solar energy farms and data centers.
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This checks out with my experience. Everyone, I mean literally everyone, I know is using Huawei's inverters.

You will never understand what market dominance means until you go to a normal warehouse and see thousands and thousands of inverters all marked with the Huawei logo.
 

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These are quite useful machines and their design and production generate a lot of added value.

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"XCMG has successfully designed and built what it claims is the world's largest rear-wheel drive rigid mining truck - with a load capacity of 400 tons.

The XDE440, customized for China Minmetals Corporation operating in 'high-end mining markets' such as South America, North America and Australia, can guarantee 7,300 hours of annual working hours with a potential availability rate of over 95%.

"In order to meet such load requirements, we have independently developed the world's largest wheel reductor and strongest wet disc brake that can achieve traction which is equivalent to a fully seated 16-carriage China Railway High-speed train, and it will effectively ease transportation capacity restraints at mining sites," said Xie Heping, R&D designer of XCMG's mining machinery projects.

The XCMG R&D team has independently tackled a number of internationally leading key core technologies, such as intelligent variable frequency traction, high-torque wheel hub drive, cab roll protection, anti-fatigue design of large load-bearing components and more. The XDE440 is the world's largest tonnage AC electric drive dump truck independently developed by XCMG."


 
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SanWenYu

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A team from the Qinghua university developed worm like robots that can move through pipes of sub-centimeter diameter.

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A pipeline inspection robot for navigating tubular environments in the sub-centimeter scale​

In complex systems like aircraft engines and oil refinery machines, pipeline inspection is an essential task for ensuring safety. Here, we proposed a type of smart material–driven pipeline inspection robot (weight, 2.2 grams; length, 47 millimeters; diameter, <10 millimeters) that could fit into pipes with sub-centimeter diameters and different curvatures. We adopted high–power density, long-life dielectric elastomer actuators as artificial muscles and smart composite microstructure–based, high-efficiency anchoring units as transmissions. Fast assembling of components using magnets with an adjustable number of units was used to fit varying pipeline geometries. We analyzed the dynamic characteristics of the robots by considering soft material’s unique properties like viscoelasticity and dynamic vibrations and tuned the activation voltage’s frequency and phase accordingly. Powered by tethered cables from outside the pipe, our peristaltic pipeline robot achieved rapid motions horizontally and vertically (horizontal: 1.19 body lengths per second, vertical: 1.08 body lengths per second) in a subcentimeter-sized pipe (diameter, 9.8 millimeters). Besides, it was capable of moving in pipes with varying geometries (diameter-changing pipe, L-shaped pipe, S-shaped pipe, or spiral-shaped pipe), filled media (air or oil), and materials (glass, metal, or carbon fiber). To demonstrate its capability for pipeline inspection, we installed a miniature camera on its front and controlled the robot manually from outside. The robot successfully finished an inspection task at different speeds.

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清华大学机械系研发微小型管道机器人 实现亚厘米级管道高效探测
本项工作提出了一种智能材料驱动的微型管道检测机器人(重量 2.2 克,长度 47 毫米,直径<10 毫米),可以适应亚厘米直径和变化曲率的复杂管道。机器人采用高功率密度、长寿命的介电弹性体致动器作为人造肌肉,采用基于智能复合微结构的高效锚固单元作为传动装置,使用具有可调节数目的磁单元来快速组装机器人,以适应不同管道的复杂几何形状。通过考虑软材料的独特特性(如粘弹性和动态共振)来分析机器人的动态特性,并相应地调整驱动电压的频率和相位,以优化机器人的运动速度。这个基于高频蠕动运动原理的管道机器人由外部的缆线来提供动力,在亚厘米大小的管道中实现了水平和垂直快速运动(速度:1.19 身长/秒)。此外,它能够在不同几何形状的管道(变径管、L形管、S形管、螺旋形管等)、不同的填充介质(空气、油等)和不同材质(玻璃、金属、碳纤维等)的管道中高速行进。为了验证其管道检测能力,机器人正面安装了一个微型摄像头,从外部控制该机器人,机器人以不同的速度成功完成了一组管道巡检任务演示。该技术将来有望在航空发动机管路检修等领域发挥作用。
 

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Chinese storage system for supercomputers ranks first on global list
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A Chinese-developed storage system for a supercomputer has come on top of a global list released at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) High Performance 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday.
The Shanhe supercomputing platform, which was developed by the National Supercomputing Center in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan, beat other systems on the IO-500 10 Node Challenge, which aims to compare storage systems of some of the world's fastest supercomputers. Such systems are important in different applications, like running large-scale modeling and simulations, crunching big data and powering AI (artificial intelligence).
The platform scored 3,534.42, according to an article on Chinese website Science and Technology Daily, the best result in history.
The storage system of the platform was jointly developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan and Parallel Data Storage Lab of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the latter having developed the file system of the platform.
The ISC and Supercomputing Conference (SC) are the two top conferences in the field of high performance computing, held in the middle and end of every year respectively. The IO500 is one of the most authoritative world rankings for storage performance in high-performance computing.
The Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II on Atlas 900 in southern China's Shenzhen ranked second on the list.
 
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