Federally funded research is dead-end financing to business,
but the source of training, novel ideas and innovation to meet
significant goals more than a quarter into the future.
WSJ reported three initiatives: link
- equipment that shares information over networks 1
- light weight metals with superior properties
ORNL 2
- ZnO and GaN semiconductor materials
next generation display technology 3 4
all modeled after Germany’s subsidized institutes.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:25 am
James Haggerty WSJ 5-16-pB6 and others have described
how machines are linked to networks to monitor processes
and thereby insure quality.
Millions have been spent to rework and repair out of spec
components inserted into products. It is an effort to detect
and avert problems and reduce downtime.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324059704578472671425572966-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNTExNDUyWj.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
The comments raise the similarity of big data as described
here to six sigma. one and the same. The difference being
wireless incorporation of production machinery into preset
problem scenarios. Big data seems to be less specific.