NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) ion engine has set a new world record by clocking up 43,000 hours of continuous operation at NASA’s Glenn Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory.

Paradise Fossil Plant Unit 2’s record-setting performance of 259+ days of continuous operation for a cyclone-fired boiler is attributed to excellence in plant operations and maintenance processes, a ...

It is possible to operate Sheaumann’s diode laser pumped 2.94 µm Er:YAG MIR-Pac laser product 1,2 in the quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) pulsed mode of operation. This mode is often referred to as ...

Continuous processing, for decades an essential characteristic of advanced large-scale manufacturing, has been adopted slowly for mammalian cell-based processes, and even more haltingly for microbial ...

The Heysham 2 nuclear power station broke a nearly 22-year-old record for continuous operation when it shut down Unit 8 on September 16 after 940 days online. The previous record—held by Pickering 7, ...

Implementing an effective and sustainable continuous improvement (CI) program is hard work. It typically requires dedicated effort from multiple operations and CI leaders who, let’s face it, start out ...

The author is with the law firm Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, on whose blog this originally appeared. What a difference a day makes! That is, if the day in question is July 2, 2015 and you happen to be ...

Sheaumann’s diode laser pumped 2.94 µm Er:YAG MIR-Pac laser product 1,2 can be operated in the quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) pulsed mode. This mode - also known as normal-mode or long-pulse operation - ...