Continental Saves About?100 Million with Employee Ideas

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– Calculated saving up 18% compared to 2008
– Icheon, South Korea, and Rubí, Spain, provide the most profitable ideas in the worldwide category
– Most successful German location is Alzenau, Bavaria
Employees from 128 locations around the world of the international automotive supplier Continental helped boost efficiency and cost effectiveness with approximately 270,000 ideas that were implemented. These ideas achieved savings calculated at nearly ?100 mil

Operators need to grow profitably in the long run

Operators need to grow profitably in the long run

How to boost revenues without additional network investments

Paderborn (Germany), 06 July 2010: In the past, operators could easily grow through local market penetration and mergers and acquisitions to enlarge their subscriber base. As these means of growth do no longer exist, operators need to focus on other areas in order to achieve higher revenues and bigger margins. One way to do this is to capitalize on the huge increase in data services without increasing network costs. The second is the

Bizerba presents the new precision bread slicing machine BS 38

Balingen, 6th July 2010 – Whether you are cutting into halves, quarters or individual slices: the BS 38 brings the bread flexibly and individually into the required shape. The BS 38 cuts the most diverse types of bread individually according to the customer wishes. Whether it is soft, hard, still warm or a particularly thick whole grain crust – the bread cutting machine cuts any long or round bread up to a diameter of 30 centimetres. It won’t fail even if there are whole nuts. A special clamping

SharePoint Codeless Bi-Directional List Connectivity Powered by Enterprise Enabler and Business Data List Connector

SharePoint Codeless Bi-Directional List Connectivity Powered by Enterprise Enabler and Business Data List Connector

Stone Bond Technologies, provider of the world’s only codeless connectivity software and eco-system, today announced a strategic alliance with Layer2 a leading publisher of SharePoint Web Parts and solutions. Both companies are poised to take advantage of the growth in the SharePoint marketplace accelerated by recent Microsoft announcements.

Continental Announces New EUR Benchmark Bond

As previously announced, the Continental Corporation is launching a further component of its refinancing package. The international automotive supplier has mandated a bank consortium led by Citi and the Royal Bank of Scotland to offer and sell eurodenominated notes to qualified investors internationally. The bank consortium further includes Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, ING, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and UniCredit Bank. With an issue volume of at least EUR500 million, the benchmark bond p

RFID – constantly and throughout the machinery industry implemented

RFID – constantly and throughout the machinery industry implemented

Bochum, July 5, 2010. This year 14% of the machine-builders intend to implement RFID at the machines.

RFID stands for radio frequency identification and provides the wireless identification of goods, semi-manufactures or workpieces in the industrial sector.

Last year 15% of the machine-builders wanted to implement RFID at the machines. So RFID shows a constant implementation during the last two years.

This implementation is taking place with all or almost all of the ten investigated sectors

SYSGO and PrismTech announce integration of ElinOS and OpenSplice DDS

Combination of embedded Linux and ultra-low-latency messaging middleware delivers a commercially-supported Open Source platform for industrial-grade safety and security applications

Mainz, Germany; Edinburgh, UK; Boston, MA – July 02, 2010

SYSGO announced today the first integrated product resulting from its partner agreement with PrismTech. SYSGO is a leading supplier of software platforms for the world’s most demanding safety and security applications. PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in