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INVOICES MADE EASY
"StreamServe EU-Invoicing puts forth is <BR>solution to solve complexities of EU <BR>Invoicing Directive, enabling organisations to <BR>combine paper and e-invoicing initiatives"
"StreamServe Inc have announced the release of its EU-Invoicing software, a solution designed to handle the billions of invoices that are created and distributed annually throughout Europe.<BR> StreamServe EU-Invoicing permits organiations in nine EU countries and Norway to ensure invoice authenticity and
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CODER-INDEPENDENT <BR>PACKAGE CODING MANAGEMENT
"Claricom is the established market leading provider of Package Coding Management Systems, or 'auto-coding' solutions, that eliminate risk and allow manufacturers to ensure the right product, in the right packaging, with the correct overprinted use-by date, traceability and barcode information."
"Coder-independence is essential to allow manufacturers to select the most appropriate coding and labelling equipment for each application, without compromise to the essential coding controls that a Package Codin
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RELIABILITY WHEN IT MATTERS
"In a society where convenience goes hand in hand with modern living, people can rarely afford to be let down. "
"In our fast-paced world, imagine trying to take a shower without water, get to work on time when the central locking on your car fails, or the disappointment when your well-deserved and eagerly awaited chilled glass of Chardonnay from the fridge is warm. You can soon appreciate the role that the small things play at the crucial moments in our lives.<BR> And that's where electronic compo
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GETTING THE MEASURE OF SOLARTRON METROLOGY
"Solartron Metrology is a UK-based world leader in the innovation and manufacture of precision digital and analogue dimensional gauging probes, displacement transducers, optical linear encoders, and associated instrumentation. "
"With sales offices in the UK, France, Germany and the United States, and distributors in over 30 other countries worldwide, around 90 percent of the company's products are exported.<BR> In the lab, on the shop floor or in the field, they are relied on to provide precise
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EU PREPARES TO PROTECT YOUNG WORKERS
An EU-wide campaign will start next year to address the safety of young <BR>people at work as according to European statistics they run a 50 percent <BR>higher risk of work accidents than other workers
"A 16-year-old worker's legs were broken less than two hours into his first day at work as he fell from the footplate of an 18-ton refuse lorry. He was riding on the outside of the vehicle because there was not enough room in the cab for him and the three other workers. A 17 year-old girl lost part of a
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BRUSSELS PROPOSAL FOR EU-WIDE WORK RIGHTS
Foreign workers could be offered European Union-wide employment permits under plans to attract skilled migrants such as engineers and software technicians to the EU.
"The European Commission has suggested the idea amid concern that sought-after migrants favour working in the US, Canada and Australia instead of the EU.<BR> The Brussels body also called for special rules to help migrants hold seasonal jobs legally in sectors such as agriculture and construction.<BR> Such manual workers are vital to the i
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LASER ALIGNMENT A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING PROFITABILITY
Precision alignment of shafts and other geometric shapes has become increasingly easy and affordable as laser measurement systems have developed.
"In 1984 Pruftechnik introduced the world's first commercially available laser shaft alignment system. Called Optalign the system offered affordable 'star wars' technology to maintenance departments struggling to keep pace with growing demands for more efficient and reliable production from machinery. Flexible couplings had previously been seen as a short cut solution to
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SKIPPING AHEAD WITH IT FLEXIBILITY
"In times past, one of the most valuable facets of any technology application was its longevity. It was seen as vital that systems were 'built to last', capable of powering the business for years, even decades. "
"Today, however, the paradigm has shifted and the most important thing about any application is that it is 'built to change.'<BR> Built to change means that a business process currently invoking your finance and warehousing systems can quickly be extended to include your CRM systems. Or yo
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CHALLENGE YOUR INDUSTRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Challenge has become an industrial buzzword in recent years with more and more companies recognising the value that taking part in fundraising outdoor teambuilding events can bring their work ethic.
"How to choose your event? An internationally-focused organisation would do well to support an overseas development charity, whether seeking to end poverty, respond to natural disasters or support victims of conflict.<BR> CARE International is one such organisation. Among the world's largest aid agencies, it help
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GATWICK'S NEW WALKWAY HAS A HEART OF CURVED STEEL
"A UK engineering company which started out 50 years ago making stiffeners for chimneys, silos and motor casings has notched up another big international 'first' with its part in a giant construction project at Gatwick Airport. "
"The West Midlands-based Angle Ring Company has provided the main curved spine section in the construction of the airport's stunning new 198-metre-long passenger footbridge, the only one in the world outside the US to span an aircraft taxiway.<BR> Angle Ring's Marketing M
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Supposedly the construction
materials of the future, composites are increasingly seen in
applications where optimum efficiency is paramount including
aircraft construction and renewable energy. As two research
examples show in this video, composites really are the future
for efficiency.
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