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Thursday, February 24, 2011

How Automatic Tyre Inflation System Works


How It Works


Airgo’s Automatic Tire Inflation System (ATIS) uses compressed air from the trailers reserve air tank system.  Our ATIS inflates any tire that falls below a preset pressure whenever the vehicle is in operation.  When a tire loses air pressure below the manufacturers recommended level, the ATIS automatically transfers air from the reserve tank to the ATIS Control Box unit. The Control Box controls the air flowing to each axle, Stator filter and Rotary Union depending on each tires air pressure needs. There will be one Rotary union installed per tire set and it will distribute the correct the amount of air to each tire. 

Throughout the Trucking industry it is well known that the two biggest industry expenses are fuel and tires.  It is well documented in trade studies that tires are the second largest cost for the trucking industry.  Although tire cost is the second highest overall cost, it is the number one maintenance cost for trucking fleets.  Other trade studies have shown that tires account for over 50% of the en route breakdowns that fleets experience and for those tire related breakdowns 85% of them were due to improper or under inflation of tires.

In today’s economy it pays to implement changes that are cost beneficial to your company and changes that improve your "bottom line". Airgo's ATIS will provide a number of very positive benefits to your company, e.g., (1) freeing up maintenance or yard personnel for other tasks; (2) extend the natural life of your expensive trailer tires; (3) reduce road service calls for tire maintenance; (4) increase your fleet fuel efficiency: (5) reduce overall tire maintenance cost. Let us show you how Airgo's ATIS can do positive things for you.

Monday, February 7, 2011

How the Four Stroke Engine Works?






What is the world's fastest computer?

To put things in perspective, let's start with the computer sitting on your desk -- the computer you use on a day-to-day basis to browse the Internet, handle spreadsheets, create documents, etc. Most people have something like a Pentium computer running Windows, or a Macintosh. A computer like this can execute approximately 100 million instructions per second. Your particular machine might be twice that fast or half that fast, but that's the ballpark.

The fastest computer in the world is much faster than that, and it is sitting right on top of your shoulders! The human brain is an amazing computing device and the fastest processor available right now. Let me give you an example:
Your desktop computer is just starting to get to the point where it can "understand" speech and take dictation, translating spoken words into written words. It can only understand one speaker, and that speaker has to train it for about 20 minutes, and the dictation software will still make a lot of mistakes. So 100 million instructions per second can barely handle dictation.
Your brain, on the other hand, can understand any number of speakers. It needs no training and will make zero mistakes. It may even be able to understand multiple languages! And the speech processing portion of your brain is just one small part of the whole package -- your brain can also process complex visual images, control your entire body, understand conceptual problems and create new ideas. Your brain is made up of about one trillion cells with 100 trillion connections between those cells. We might take a rough estimate and say it is handling 10 quadrillion instructions per second, but it really is hard to say.
In the 2006 TOP500 list, which ranks supercomputers by speed, the top three supercomputers are as follows:
  1. IBM's BlueGene/L - 360 teraflops
  2. IBM's BGW - 115 teraflops
  3. IBM's ASC Purple - 93 teraflops
Another supercomputer called MDGrape-3, built by the Japanese company RIKEN, has a theoretical maximum speed of 1 petaflop (1 guadrillion operations per second), which is three times faster than the BlueGene/L. But MDGrape-3 can't run the official ranking software of the TOP500 list, so BlueGene/L remains at the top of the list at 360 trillion operations per second, which is pretty fast...but it's still not as fast as your brain.