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Working For MVP
MVP provides equipment to manufacturers of RVs, boats, bathtub and shower enclosures to help them build their products. But that desire to help others doesn’t end there. In fact, that attitude is evident at MVP’s home base. MVP wants to make every employee feel valued and satisfied. The company believes that investing in its employees…
Listen: Top Construction Firms Teaming Up with Tech Companies to Increase Automation
If the box-office appeal of superhero movies is any indication, many of us would appreciate super-strength and enhanced endurance. The construction industry is embracing robotic technology that is making that a reality, sort of. The construction robotics market is growing at a rate expected to reach $166.4M by 2023. That value was $60M in…
Listen: Chicago Restaurant Tests Automated Robotic Server
Penny, a robotic server created by Bear Robotics, is looking to change the future of the restaurant industry. After being programmed to understand the layout of the restaurant, Penny is able to help the serving staff to carry plates back to the kitchen for cleaning and even bring out orders to your table. Juan…
World Metrology Day, 2018
May 20, 2018, is World Metrology Day. Metrology, the science of measurement, impacts our everyday lives in many ways: some are subtle, and others are quite significant. For example, metrology plays a central role in scientific discovery, as well as manufacturing and trade; it’s also critical in improving our quality of life and protecting our…
Listen: Microsoft Acquisition Aims to Advance AI
Multinational technology company Microsoft has acquired Semantic Machines in hopes of advancing conversational artificial intelligence. Semantic Machines has developed a new approach to building conversational AI. By using machine learning, users can discover, access and interact with information and services in a much more natural way, and with significantly less effort. All eyes will…
Dallas Leads Nation in Potential for Business District Development
The true essence of the American economy lies in the value each one of the businesses its great cities provides. The diversity of businesses every region of the United States offers has enabled these cities to contribute to the economy in their own unique ways. A recent study by CommercialCafe looked at 25 different metropolitan…
TOTALLY WORTH IT: THE BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since the rollout of 4G technology. Since its release in 2009, the world has arguably changed more quickly than in any decade before. According to a report by Deloitte, the result of 4G was a “radical, twenty-fold growth in global mobile data traffic.”[1] And things aren’t slowing…
Top 3 Upcoming Software and Electronics Trade Shows
While new marketing tactics dominate much of the conversation in the industry today, traditional marketing, like trade shows, continues to be as relevant today as ever before. In the United States, trade shows are a 12.6 billion dollar industry, and perhaps the most thrilling of these shows are in the electronics and software industries. General…
THE U.S. ARMED FORCES TRUST PRESCO FOR MISSION-CRITICAL TEXTILE PRODUCTS
The United States Armed Forces is responsible for protecting America and its interests around the world. Fulfilling this monumental task requires the dedication of trained service members, and the hard work of numerous Department of Defense (DoD) agencies including the Defense Logistics Agency, which procures the clothing and textiles that support the troops. It’s estimated…
The Business of Putting It All Together
FSG Connects You to All the Best Experts In the world of facility maintenance, finding the right suppliers and contractors is kind of like walking the pie buffet at a potluck lunch. There’s lots to choose from, but the pieces are always small and the only way to really get what you want is to…
Watch: Drones Providing a Boost to Construction Companies
As drone usage increases across all industries, construction companies are among those who are gaining the greatest benefits. A new Android app, developed by low-cost drone provider 3DR, is adding even more value and flexibility to that proposition. The app, called 3DR GCP, leverages the Catalyst hardware from Trimble (including a plug-and-play digital antenna…
Watch: Cima Solutions Group RightCloud – Partnership with Precision IT makes sense for our clients
Learn about the Cima/Precision IT partnership and how it delivers TCO analysis for their clients when evaluating various infrastructure options for their workloads ranging from x86, cloud, IBM Power, HCI and more.
Listen: New Facebook Campus Construction Cost Tops $1 Billion
Facebook experienced an historic month in March 2015, when it opened MPK 20 on the Menlo Park Campus. According to a report by BuildZoom.com, the permit for that expansion carried a cost of $177 million dollars. That amount now seems small in comparison with two recently-filed permits, valued at $303M and $300M, respectively. These…
The Nevco Process: A Smooth Installation to Guarantee Memorable Fan Experience
Choosing a new video board to enhance the fan experience at your athletic facility can feel like a daunting project with multiple consideration points. You’ve done your homework and found a video board and developed a sports marketing game-plan to realize a return on this investment. But how much thought have you given to the…
DOES YOUR BUSINESS NEED THE INTERNET OF THINGS AND BLOCKCHAIN?
Experts expect global spending on information technology (IT) to reach an astounding $3.7 trillion in 2018. That’s 4.5 percent more than the spending in 2017, despite relative uncertainty in the market. Growth in several areas of IT will influence this spending, notably the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. With IT developing so quickly, it’s increasingly…
Watch: Boeing Teams Up With Assembrix Ltd. for Cloud-based 3D Printing
The U.S. Defense will now use Assembrix software to securely manage and share 3-D printing data with clients during the design and manufacturing phases of production. The virtual industrial 3-D printing allows clients to allocate space in industrial size 3-D printers to produce products in real-time. The program protects customer’s data from being intercepted, corrupted…
Listen: Review of common construction practice finds environmental contamination
When most of us think about storm drainage, we think of a system safely diverting large amounts of water from areas where it could cause dangerous conditions. It appears that the process of repairing these pipes could be much more damaging to the area. A recent study at Purdue University found that common repair…
MarketScale Talks to Matthew Smith of LSI at LIGHTFAIR 2018
Recently, MarketScale attended the LightFair International Convention in Chicago and connected with Matthew Smith, the Inside Sales Specialist for LSI. We got some great insight as to why these professionals do what they do, what makes trade shows like LFI so important to the lighting design industry, and learned about their featured product, a digital…
A Conversation with Lunera’s Tom Quinn at LightFair 2018
Last week, MarketScale paid a visit to the annual LightFair conference in Chicago. With over 500 exhibitors and over 200 accredited courses, this experience is one of the most beneficial for companies looking to improve and expand on all kinds of structural and utility needs. Among the drove of vendors showing off their companies’ latest…
A Conversation with Lunera’s Tom Quinn at LightFair 2018
Last week, MarketScale paid a visit to the annual LightFair conference in Chicago. With over 500 exhibitors and over 200 accredited courses, this experience is one of the most beneficial for companies looking to improve and expand on all kinds of structural and utility needs. Among the drove of vendors showing off their companies’ latest…
Watch: LG Launches a Blockchain Platform
LG has announced that it has launched its own blockchain service called, Monachain. The service was launched through the company’s information technology service unit, LG CNS. Monachain will offer decentralized services, one of which will be a digital authentication and certification service. According to a company report, the name “Monachain” was derived from the ‘Mona…
Watch: Diving Into LIGHTFAIR 2018
LFI brings professionals from across the world to a 200,000 square-foot trade floor and offered 200 hours of educational training opportunities. Last year’s conference was attended by more than 27,000 people including contractors, architects, engineers, educators, and urban planners. For the latest news, videos, and podcasts in the AEC Industry, be sure to subscribe to…
Listen: Boeing Teams Up with Software Company to Protect Data
Listen: Amazon Partners with Home Builder Lennar to Create Smart Home
All of the time needed to set up your own smart home just might be saved if a recent collaboration between Amazon and home-builder Lennar catches on. The two companies recently unveiled the Amazon Experience Center in the North Bay Lennar housing development in Vallejo, California, as well as seven other locations around the…
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