Category: Business

Approximately 70% of all manufacturing facilities use a compressed air system, but these days, compressed air is being used for so much more. Thanks to France’s Production Functional Factory, cyclists can now use a small, hand-held compressed air system to reinflate their bikes’ tires. Many cyclists currently use a compact hand pump or CO2 cartridges to keep their high-pressure tires inflated on long trips. However, hand pumps take a lot of time and effort, and CO2 cartridges are expensive and … Continue reading “New Device Uses Spinning Bike Wheels to Generate Compressed Air for Under-Inflated Tires”

Although 2015 saw a few major, headline-grabbing data breaches, it looks like the overall amount of record breaches will increase by more than 56%. “What makes the large-scale data breaches somewhat disconcerting is that they came despite the fact that so many enterprises are supposedly bolstering their defenses in response to previous high-profile breaches,” read Breach Level Index’s official report. According to Dark Reading, during the first half of 2016, more than 554 million records — compared to the 707 … Continue reading “Data Breaches On Track to Exceed 1 Billion by the End of 2016”

Camping World Holdings, a recreational vehicle dealership, made headlines when its CEO, Marcus Lemonis, took the company public last week. The initial public offering raised a staggering $251 million. Lemonis, who owns 38 million shares of the company, intends to maintain his majority control, but offered about 11.4 million shares at $23 to the public. Camping World is the biggest RV retailer in the company, cornering a market of the almost 11 million children and adults who attend camps every … Continue reading “Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis Takes His Company Public”

The global construction equipment industry is valued at approximately $145.5 billion, and it’s come time for them to enter the digital world. In an industry where practices haven’t experienced any major change in decades, comprehensive online modeling, surveyor drones, and virtual-reality have finally made their way into the picture. Beyond making processes faster, these digital trends allow for safer, more precise modeling and construction. The push for more digital tools in construction is being led by big builders and new … Continue reading “The Construction Industry Has Ventured Into Digital Territory”

Millennials can never seem to get it right. They invent pumpkin spice lattes, but get shot down when they post an Instagram of their morning’s brew. They are staying in college for longer, but their fields of study are not deemed practical like the previous generation. Oh, and their contributions to the economy are dividing the nation. On one side of the spectrum, Americans believe Millennials are innovators and courageous in their career paths. Even presidential candidate Hilary Clinton described … Continue reading “”

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has recently fined Tyson Foods, the country’s largest poultry food processor, with more than $263,000 in fines after a conveyor belt in Tyson’s Center, Texas, caught and dragged an employee’s finger into a deboning machine immediately amputating the finger. After the incident, OSHA started to inspect the facility and found 15 serious workplace safety violations, as well as two repeated violations. According to OSHA reports, some examples of the infringements on workplace safety … Continue reading “OSHA Slams Tyson With Massive Fees For Lack of Workplace Safety Measures”