Established in 1953, Dynisco was one of the first companies to apply strain gauge technology to pressure transducers for a variety of markets and industries and the first company to design a transducer specifically to measure melt pressure during the extrusion process. In addition, over the years, Dynisco has grown through acquisition to include products such as melt indexers, rheometers, polymer evalutaion equipment and other auxiliary equipment for polymer processing and plastics extrusion.
Dedication to our ISO 9001:2000 certification assures that all Dynisco products are designed and manufactured to the highest quality standards. And our products are backed by a comprehensive service and repair program and unmatched technical support. Our experience, expertise, and service all are directed toward improving product quality and manufacturing efficiency for our customers.
Dynisco has a network of Manufacturing Sites and Sales Offices around the Globe, many of whom have over twenty years of experience with our products. Also, sales representatives and distributors worldwide supplement these direct offices throughout Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Today, Dynisco is the international leader in pressure and temperature measurement and control products for the plastics industry. We've solved some of the most challenging measurement problems in extrusion, molding, process control and general industrial applications. Our sensors meet the rigid standards of approval agencies such as CE, FM, SIRA, PTB, CSA and others. We've built our reputation by providing high accuracy pressure measurement at high temperatures, with transducers that withstand the most abrasive and corrosive production environments. Continued investment in R&D allows Dynisco to offer hundreds of models of transducers and transmitters and the latest sensing technologies.
Our extensive line of polymer testing equipment grew from Kayeness, Inc., which Dynisco acquired in 1987. Today we supply both on-line and laboratory capillary rheometers, laboratory melt indexers, on-line slit rheometers, on-line infrared analysis, a variety of impact testers, coefficient of friction testers, contact angle testers, film tensile testers and other small test devices. Through our innovative work with electronics and mechanical design, we’ve carved a niche in the polymer test marketplace by providing the highest performance per cost ratio in the business. Dynisco meets the physical testing needs of the plastics, food, and rubber industries by providing high quality equipment and services at low cost.
In 1990 Dynisco acquired Normag Gear Pumps and followed that by adding Extek Screen Changers in 1994. Extrusion processors worldwide came to rely on Dynisco gear pumps and screen changers to meet their most demanding specifications for sheet, cast film, profile, tubing, pipe, wire and cable or compounding applications. The Beringer product line was acquired by Madison Capital Group in 1998. It was combined with the Extrusion group. The Beringer product line included screen changers, cleaning ovens, and pelletizers. In 2006 the Extrusion group was divested to Xaloy in 2006, now known as Xaloy Extrusion.
On December 15th, 2006 Roper Industries, Inc. of Duluth, GA (NYSE: ROP) acquired Dynisco LLC from Audax Group of Boston, MA. Dynisco has been added to the Roper’s Energy Systems & Controls segment.
Roper Industries is a diversified industrial company that produces engineered products for global niche markets. We are well positioned in attractive end markets, and our strong operating capabilities enable us to convert this potential into profitable growth and cash flow. We are focused on executing our growth strategy to create value for our investors.
Dynisco,LLC has been built on the principles of innovative products, quality workmanship and outstanding service. Customers around the world have come to depend on Dynisco.
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10 Mart 2009 Salı
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While membrane-based separations of liquids from solids have enjoyed increasing popularity over the last 20 years, the technology has an inherent Achilles heel that affects all membrane devices: fouling. This long-term loss in throughput capacity is due primarily to the formation of a boundary layer that builds up naturally on the membranes surface during the filtration process. In addition to cutting down on the flux performance of the membrane, this boundary or gel layer acts as a secondary membrane reducing the native design selectivity of the membrane in use. This inability to handle the buildup of solids has also limited the use of membranes to low-solids feed streams.
To help minimize this boundary layer buildup, membrane designers have used a method known as tangential-flow or cross-flow filtration that relies on high velocity fluid flow pumped across the membranes surface as a means of reducing the boundary layer effect. (See Figure 1)
In cross-flow designs, it is not economic to create high shear forces, thus limiting the use of cross-flow to low-viscosity (watery) fluids. In addition, increased cross-flow velocities result in a significant pressure drop from the inlet (high pressure) to the outlet (lower pressure) end of the device, which leads to premature fouling of the membrane that creeps up the device until permeate rates drop to unacceptably low levels.
Instead of producing high cross flow, an alternative method for producing intense shear waves on the face of a membrane is developed. The technique is called Vibratory Shear Enhanced Processing (VSEP). In a VSEP System, the feed slurry remains nearly stationary, moving in a leisurely, meandering flow between parallel membrane leaf elements. Shear cleaning action is created by vigorously vibrating the leaf elements in a direction tangent to the faces of the membranes.
The shear waves produced by the membrane's vibration cause solids and foulants to be lifted off the membrane surface and remixed with the bulk material flowing through the membrane stack. This high shear processing exposes the membrane pores for maximum throughput that is typically between 3 and 10 times the throughput of conventional cross-flow systems. (See Figure 2, above)
The oscillation produces a shear at the membrane surface of about 150,000 inverse seconds (equivalent to over 200 G's of force), which is approximately 10 times the shear rate of the best conventional cross-flow systems. More importantly, the shear in a VSEP System is focused at the membrane surface where it is cost effective and most useful in preventing fouling, while the bulk fluid between the membrane disks moves very little.
Because VSEP does not depend on feed flow induced shearing forces, the feed slurry can become extremely viscous and still be successfully dewatered. The concentrate is essentially extruded between the vibrating disc elements and exits the machine once it reaches the desired concentration level. Thus, VSEP Systems can be run in a single pass through the system, eliminating the need for costly working tanks, ancillary equipment and associated valving.
The disc pack hold up volume of a system with 1,400 ft2 (130 sq. meters) of membrane area, is less than 50 gallons (189 liters). As a result, product recovery in batch processes can be extremely high.
Emulsified oil are serving as lubricant as well as coolant in various metal industries such as steel making and metal cutting. Disposal of emulsified fluid is a very tough environmental pollution issue. It has high COD and oil/water fully emulsified. Conventional bio-chemical treatment consumes large amount of chemicals and high running cost yet still requires multiple post-treatment steps. The disposal of solid cake will ultimately contaminate underground water. Conventional membrane treatment faces low flux and severe fouling issues. VSEP can simplify treatment process. It has high anti-fouling ability and high recovery ratio. Concentrate can be put as fuel and permeate can achieve discharge standard.
At startup, the VSEP system is fed with a slurry and the concentrate valve is closed. Permeate is produced and suspended solids in the feed are collected inside the VSEP filter pack. After a programmed time interval, valve on concentrate line is opened to release the accumulated concentrated solids. The valve is then closed to allow the concentration of additional feed material. This cycle repeats indefinitely.
Membrane selection is the single most important parameter that affects the quality of the separation. Other important parameters that affect system performance are pressure, temperature, vibration amplitude, and residence time. All of these elements are optimized during testing and entered into the programmable logic controller (PLC) which controls the system.
The operating pressure is created by the feed pump. VSEP machines can routinely operate at pressures as high as 500 psig (35 bar). While higher pressures often produce increased permeate flow rates, they also use more energy. Therefore, an operating pressure is used that optimizes the balance between flow rates and energy consumption.
The vibration amplitude and corresponding shear rate can also be varied which directly affects filtration rates. Shearing is produced by the torsion oscillation of the filter stack. Typically the stack oscillates with an amplitude of 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches (1.9 to 3.2 cm) peak to peak displacement at the rim of the stack. The oscillation frequency is approximately 53 Hz and produces a shear intensity of about 150,000 inverse seconds.
Feed residence time is set by the frequency of the opening and closing of the exit valve (valve one). The solids level in the feed increases as the feed material remains in the machine. Occasionally, a cleaner is added to the membrane stack and continued oscillation helps clean the membrane in minutes. This process can be automated and only consumes approximately 50 gallons (189 liters) of cleaning solution thus reducing cleaner disposal problems inherent with other membrane systems.
Control system
VSEP systems are supplied with internationally branded Programmable Logic Controllers. All components are fully contained in a NEMA 4 rated enclosure.
Various levels of control sophistication are available depending on the complexity of the application. For polishing or low solids applications simple controls having minimal outputs and inputs are provided. For high solids applications controls with more features are used to insure trouble free operation. The VSEP controller typically sets solids levels by actuating the exit valve based on operating parameters such as pressure or flow rate.
Other control options available include automatic clean-in-place, automatic flush, automatic shut down, full alarm features with digital diagnostic displays, remote diagnostics and monitoring, and many others. Dunwell engineers have spent years perfecting VSEP controls to maximize reliability and to minimize operator intervention.
Clean-In-Place
Clean-In-Place, CIP, is a package of pre-connected pipes, valves, tanks, pumps serving to clean the filter pack in steps by washing and flushing. Different cleaner can be applied according to different fouling chemistry. Piping has different material and different grade of polishing according to applications. One CIP can serve up to 6 i-series VSEP. Customer can choose either fully manual or fully automatic or somewhere in between according to individual application.
To help minimize this boundary layer buildup, membrane designers have used a method known as tangential-flow or cross-flow filtration that relies on high velocity fluid flow pumped across the membranes surface as a means of reducing the boundary layer effect. (See Figure 1)
In cross-flow designs, it is not economic to create high shear forces, thus limiting the use of cross-flow to low-viscosity (watery) fluids. In addition, increased cross-flow velocities result in a significant pressure drop from the inlet (high pressure) to the outlet (lower pressure) end of the device, which leads to premature fouling of the membrane that creeps up the device until permeate rates drop to unacceptably low levels.
Instead of producing high cross flow, an alternative method for producing intense shear waves on the face of a membrane is developed. The technique is called Vibratory Shear Enhanced Processing (VSEP). In a VSEP System, the feed slurry remains nearly stationary, moving in a leisurely, meandering flow between parallel membrane leaf elements. Shear cleaning action is created by vigorously vibrating the leaf elements in a direction tangent to the faces of the membranes.
The shear waves produced by the membrane's vibration cause solids and foulants to be lifted off the membrane surface and remixed with the bulk material flowing through the membrane stack. This high shear processing exposes the membrane pores for maximum throughput that is typically between 3 and 10 times the throughput of conventional cross-flow systems. (See Figure 2, above)
The oscillation produces a shear at the membrane surface of about 150,000 inverse seconds (equivalent to over 200 G's of force), which is approximately 10 times the shear rate of the best conventional cross-flow systems. More importantly, the shear in a VSEP System is focused at the membrane surface where it is cost effective and most useful in preventing fouling, while the bulk fluid between the membrane disks moves very little.
Because VSEP does not depend on feed flow induced shearing forces, the feed slurry can become extremely viscous and still be successfully dewatered. The concentrate is essentially extruded between the vibrating disc elements and exits the machine once it reaches the desired concentration level. Thus, VSEP Systems can be run in a single pass through the system, eliminating the need for costly working tanks, ancillary equipment and associated valving.
The disc pack hold up volume of a system with 1,400 ft2 (130 sq. meters) of membrane area, is less than 50 gallons (189 liters). As a result, product recovery in batch processes can be extremely high.
Emulsified oil are serving as lubricant as well as coolant in various metal industries such as steel making and metal cutting. Disposal of emulsified fluid is a very tough environmental pollution issue. It has high COD and oil/water fully emulsified. Conventional bio-chemical treatment consumes large amount of chemicals and high running cost yet still requires multiple post-treatment steps. The disposal of solid cake will ultimately contaminate underground water. Conventional membrane treatment faces low flux and severe fouling issues. VSEP can simplify treatment process. It has high anti-fouling ability and high recovery ratio. Concentrate can be put as fuel and permeate can achieve discharge standard.
At startup, the VSEP system is fed with a slurry and the concentrate valve is closed. Permeate is produced and suspended solids in the feed are collected inside the VSEP filter pack. After a programmed time interval, valve on concentrate line is opened to release the accumulated concentrated solids. The valve is then closed to allow the concentration of additional feed material. This cycle repeats indefinitely.
Membrane selection is the single most important parameter that affects the quality of the separation. Other important parameters that affect system performance are pressure, temperature, vibration amplitude, and residence time. All of these elements are optimized during testing and entered into the programmable logic controller (PLC) which controls the system.
The operating pressure is created by the feed pump. VSEP machines can routinely operate at pressures as high as 500 psig (35 bar). While higher pressures often produce increased permeate flow rates, they also use more energy. Therefore, an operating pressure is used that optimizes the balance between flow rates and energy consumption.
The vibration amplitude and corresponding shear rate can also be varied which directly affects filtration rates. Shearing is produced by the torsion oscillation of the filter stack. Typically the stack oscillates with an amplitude of 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches (1.9 to 3.2 cm) peak to peak displacement at the rim of the stack. The oscillation frequency is approximately 53 Hz and produces a shear intensity of about 150,000 inverse seconds.
Feed residence time is set by the frequency of the opening and closing of the exit valve (valve one). The solids level in the feed increases as the feed material remains in the machine. Occasionally, a cleaner is added to the membrane stack and continued oscillation helps clean the membrane in minutes. This process can be automated and only consumes approximately 50 gallons (189 liters) of cleaning solution thus reducing cleaner disposal problems inherent with other membrane systems.
Control system
VSEP systems are supplied with internationally branded Programmable Logic Controllers. All components are fully contained in a NEMA 4 rated enclosure.
Various levels of control sophistication are available depending on the complexity of the application. For polishing or low solids applications simple controls having minimal outputs and inputs are provided. For high solids applications controls with more features are used to insure trouble free operation. The VSEP controller typically sets solids levels by actuating the exit valve based on operating parameters such as pressure or flow rate.
Other control options available include automatic clean-in-place, automatic flush, automatic shut down, full alarm features with digital diagnostic displays, remote diagnostics and monitoring, and many others. Dunwell engineers have spent years perfecting VSEP controls to maximize reliability and to minimize operator intervention.
Clean-In-Place
Clean-In-Place, CIP, is a package of pre-connected pipes, valves, tanks, pumps serving to clean the filter pack in steps by washing and flushing. Different cleaner can be applied according to different fouling chemistry. Piping has different material and different grade of polishing according to applications. One CIP can serve up to 6 i-series VSEP. Customer can choose either fully manual or fully automatic or somewhere in between according to individual application.
6 Mart 2009 Cuma
DDR-150 Rotary Positioning Stage
Direct drive brushless DC servo motor
* Precision ground ABEC-7 4-point contact bearings
* Durable stainless steel top plate with through hole
* Resolution to 0.2 arc seconds
* Highly repeatable Hall effect home and limit switches
* Optional encoder scale cover
* Ideal for:
o Wafer Inspection
o Precision Assembly
o Laser Machining
* Precision ground ABEC-7 4-point contact bearings
* Durable stainless steel top plate with through hole
* Resolution to 0.2 arc seconds
* Highly repeatable Hall effect home and limit switches
* Optional encoder scale cover
* Ideal for:
o Wafer Inspection
o Precision Assembly
o Laser Machining
AEROFLEX
Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions is a world leader in the design
and manufacturing of high-reliability integrated circuits and packaging, motion
control and motors, microwave and RF devices, components and subsystems for the
aerospace, medical, industrial, fixed broadband, wireless/mobile, and test and
measure markets. Our customer-focused approach brings flexibility, creativity
and cost-effectiveness to the diverse markets we serve.
Aeroflex Test Solutions is a global leader in the Test and Measurement
Instrumentation marketplace. Our products support a wide range of industries
including aerospace, defense and wireless mobile and broadband communications.
Our proven solutions encompass a full spectrum of instrumentation from turnkey
systems, stand alone boxes or modular components that provide customers with
highly reliable, customized, innovative and cost effective testing
tools.
Product areas include ATE, Avionics, Broadband Test, Communications Test, General Purpose Test, PXI, Signal Sources, Stimulus Products, Synthetic and Wireless.
Gönderen bebu zaman: 14:01 0 yorum
Etiketler: AEROFLEX, Avionics, Broadband Test, Communications Test, General Purpose Test, Product areas include ATE, PXI, Signal Sources, Stimulus Products, Synthetic and Wireless, technology, TEKNOLOJİ
Tepkiler:
DDR-150 Rotary Positioning Stage
Direct drive brushless DC servo motor
* Precision ground ABEC-7 4-point contact bearings
* Durable stainless steel top plate with through hole
* Resolution to 0.2 arc seconds
* Highly repeatable Hall effect home and limit switches
* Optional encoder scale cover
* Ideal for:
o Wafer Inspection
o Precision Assembly
o Laser Machining
and manufacturing of high-reliability integrated circuits and packaging, motion
control and motors, microwave and RF devices, components and subsystems for the
aerospace, medical, industrial, fixed broadband, wireless/mobile, and test and
measure markets. Our customer-focused approach brings flexibility, creativity
and cost-effectiveness to the diverse markets we serve.
Aeroflex Test Solutions is a global leader in the Test and Measurement
Instrumentation marketplace. Our products support a wide range of industries
including aerospace, defense and wireless mobile and broadband communications.
Our proven solutions encompass a full spectrum of instrumentation from turnkey
systems, stand alone boxes or modular components that provide customers with
highly reliable, customized, innovative and cost effective testing
tools.
Product areas include ATE, Avionics, Broadband Test, Communications Test, General Purpose Test, PXI, Signal Sources, Stimulus Products, Synthetic and Wireless.
Gönderen bebu zaman: 14:01 0 yorum
Etiketler: AEROFLEX, Avionics, Broadband Test, Communications Test, General Purpose Test, Product areas include ATE, PXI, Signal Sources, Stimulus Products, Synthetic and Wireless, technology, TEKNOLOJİ
Tepkiler:
DDR-150 Rotary Positioning Stage
Direct drive brushless DC servo motor
* Precision ground ABEC-7 4-point contact bearings
* Durable stainless steel top plate with through hole
* Resolution to 0.2 arc seconds
* Highly repeatable Hall effect home and limit switches
* Optional encoder scale cover
* Ideal for:
o Wafer Inspection
o Precision Assembly
o Laser Machining
5 Mart 2009 Perşembe
hymarkets
HY Markets has its global headquarters in London and is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom. The Group has over 30 years of operational history and is the trading platform of choice for investors seeking fast and direct access to the world's capital markets.
This long-standing expertise has enabled us to develop our revolutionary web-based Internet trading platform, which enables clients to invest in all major capital markets from one integrated account in an easy-to-use interface.
HY Markets is a division of the Henyep Group, a global diversified conglomerate with business in financial services, property, education, and charity spanning 3 continents and 20 countries worldwide. The Henyep Group of companies are registered and authorized in world-leading jurisdictions including London, Dubai, and Hong Kong. This provides clients with the comfort and security of a global institution.
HY Markets provides investors with efficient and direct access to all their trading needs. Start trading with the security of an FSA regulated company.
Advanced Online Trading Platforms
The heart of the HY Markets service is our state-of- the-art trading platform. We offer our clients with the choice of an easy-to-use web-based online trading platform, and advanced users download platform with mobile phone trading integration. These cutting-edge multi-product platforms integrate live tradable prices, charting tools, real-time news and market commentary, and complete account information all in easy-to-use revolutionary interfaces.
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Forex, oil, gas, commodities, metals, stocks and more
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While many online trading companies only provide Forex trading, HY Markets clients are able to take advantage of our deep product offering including oil/gas, metals, commodities, stocks and more. All traded within a single integrated account. Such access to multiple markets gives our clients a competitive edge to trade all markets and diversify an investment portfolio.
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Live prices, Live Reuters news, market information, advanced charting systems, and technical analysis tools to give you a competitive edge.
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HY Markets online trading platform is supported by 24 hrs. live dedicated customer support professionals via phone, email and chat.
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Technology driven back-office systems that let you check your open positions, equity and P&L online 24hrs a day
1 Mart 2009 Pazar
Welcome to the Dakota Ultrasonics
We are a manufacturer of industrial ultrasonic testing equipment most commonly used in the petrochemical, aerospace, automotive, and other generally related industries. The pages that follow will provide you with general information regarding our products. If you have any questions, need technical support, or have a request for custom items, please contact us at your leisure using the information provided on this site.
Our products are commonly used to determine the thickness of a variety of materials by making contact with only one side of the material being tested. They have the ability to detect very fine pits, flaws, and porosity in materials without having to destroy the material or parts being tested. This is done by converting the transit time of a sound wave, sent into and reflecting back from a defect or opposite surface in the test material, into a length measurement. This technique uses principles similar to that of sonar.
We also manufacture a line of ultrasonic bolting equipment that very accurately measures the stress, elongation, and load in threaded fasteners. These products are typically used in critical bolting applications where extreme accuracy is needed. If you have any specific or specialized bolting applications in mind, be sure to contact us to discuss your requirements in detail.
Enjoy!
28 Şubat 2009 Cumartesi
SmartBalancer
SmartBalancer is a new portable measuring instrument for field balancing designed by Schenck – a specialist in balancing equipment. The new field balancer with its many outstanding major and minor design features incorporates our vast expertise in balancing, along with up-to-date vibration measuring equipment.
Field balancing with the SmartBalancer – a most efficient addition to your balancing equipment.
Benefits at a Glance
* A comprehensive package at an extremely favourable price-performance ratio.
* 2 simultaneous measurement channels for highly efficient field balancing.
* Optimised balancing for up to 4 measuring points.
* Graphical presentation of unbalance and test run vectors for all measuring points.
* Machine diagnosis with FFT and SmartFFT analysis
* Overall vibration measurement in accordance with relevant standards.
* Oscilloscope function.
* Powerful SmartReport software included in the price.
* New laser-optical reference sensor enables safe balancing at a distance of up to 0.5 m from the rotor shaft.
* 6 hours of operation on a single battery charge - no replacement batteries required.
High Ease of Operation
* Clear graphical display
* Dialog-based operator prompting
* 6 hours of operation on a single battery charge
* No replacement batteries required
* Laser-optical reference sensor (emitting visible light) enables safe balancing at a distance of up to 0.5 m from the rotor shaft
* SmartBalancer report software
Specifications
Measurement Tasks
* Field balancing of rotors in one and two planes.
* Measurement of overall vibrations for evaluation of the machine condition.
* Frequency analysis for identification of the causes of vibrations.
* Start-up and run-down curves of the first harmonic for the detection of machine and mounting resonances.
* Display of overall vibrations and of the first harmonic versus time.
* Oscilloscope function for visualisation of vibration - time signature.
Measurement Channels
* 2 channels for vibrations
* 1 channel for speed and reference signal
Measurement Inputs
* 2 inputs for acceleration sensors
* 1 input for laser-optical reference sensor
* All inputs provide power supply for the sensors.
Measurement Variables
* Vibration displacement in µm and mils
* Vibration velocity in mm/s and inch/s
* Vibration acceleration in m/s2 and g
Signal Detection Types
* RMS value
* Peak-to-peak value
* Peak value
27 Şubat 2009 Cuma
THE LAST DAYS OF PRIVACY
As technology makes life richer and easier, we leave a trail of information
that is susceptible to prying eyesWithin the next four months, a major Bay Area
supermarket chain plans to introduce a payment system that uses biometric
fingerprint authentication to verify customers' identities. Under this system,
shoppers in checkout lines won't need to use cash, checks, debit cards or credit
cards. Instead, they can place their fingers on scanners that read fingerprints,
and once the device links to their bank or credit card accounts, they can buy
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Americans might as well face up the fact that there is little privacy left.]The
system is already used in cities around the United States, including Portland,
Ore., and Chicago, where one shopper says it has changed his life for the
better. Linc Thelen, a 37-year-old interior designer, says the fingerprint
system -- known commercially as Pay By Touch -- is convenient to use and
expedites his way through grocery lines at Jewel-Osco, where he shops. Thelen
says the system lets people leave their wallets behind, so they don't have to
worry about being robbed or losing their credit cards."I had no reservation,"
Thelen said in a phone interview. "It's a safe way to store information."But no
system is 100 percent foolproof.Despite the fact that armed men guard the
computers that store the customers' virtual fingerprints, despite the fact that
Bank of America's former security chief now heads Pay By Touch's security
division, and despite the fact that Pay By Touch hires people to try to expose
vulnerabilities in its computer system (so those vulnerabilities can be
eliminated), Pay By Touch President John Morris acknowledges that "it's not
impossible" for computer hackers to figure out how to tamper with its
information.And therein lies one of the 21st century's most vexing problems:
More and more of our personal data are captured and stored by corporate and
government interests, and are potentially available to anyone with the
technological, legal or financial means to access that information.Whether it's
phone calls we make, library books we check out, CDs we buy on the Internet or
divorces we finalize in court, we leave a trail of information that becomes
susceptible to prying eyes. For the price of a bus pass, you can pay a company
to supply anyone's address, phone number, political affiliation, estimated
income and property history. For $20 more, you can find out if that person is
married or divorced, has a criminal record, and what sort of jobs he or she has
worked.Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., says she will introduce a "privacy bill of
rights" because identity theft and security failures of personal records have
become "one of the most important issues facing us as individuals and as a
nation."The availability of personal information -- downloadable onto laptop
computers, which are increasingly being fitted with fingerprint technology -- is
changing the culture in ways that may seem trivial but are really benchmarks for
a new society already in its formative stages.A small example: Unbeknownst to
the men who date her, Judy runs background checks on all of them, using a
private investigator to dig out any "red flags" that would presage troubling
behavior. A businesswoman in Southern California, Judy, 50, uses a company
called DateSmart, whose client base has boomed in the past five years as more
people confront the perils of online dating."I'm glad the information is out
there," says Judy, who did not want her last name used because of concerns her
suitors would read this article. "The men I'm talking to online are complete
strangers. And I have absolutely no knowledge of their character other than what
they're saying in their profiles. I need to feel comfortable knowing that
they're not an ax murderer. The people you meet might be well dressed, but you
never know if they have any criminal history. It's for (my) safety."Background
checks are nothing new. What's changed are the speed with which you can obtain
them, their relatively small price (some companies advertise free checks) and
their growing public acceptance. The information revolution has transformed the
background check into a common and casual tool, and those being scrutinized
probably don't have a clue. More obvious are the security cameras embedded in
nearly every major American city, including New York, Milwaukee, Chicago,
Atlanta, Los Angeles and, yes, San Francisco, where lenses record people's
activities in such crime-ridden neighborhoods as Bayview-Hunters Point and the
Western Addition. The spread of these cameras is championed by authorities, who
say it reduces criminal activity, and criticized by the ACLU, which says the
equipment is an unnecessary intrusion into public spaces.Civil liberties groups
have joined the widespread outcry against the government's monitoring of
Americans' phone-call records. Two weeks ago in federal court, the ACLU
challenged the legal rationale behind the National Security Agency program,
arguing that the NSA's actions -- involving "data mining" of records provided by
AT&T and other telephone companies -- violate Americans' rights to free
speech and privacy as guaranteed under the First and Fourth Amendments. Last
week, privacy experts raised questions about the U.S. government's monitoring of
international bank transfers -- previously secret data surveillance officials
say is justified by the fight against terrorism.Americans' rights to privacy
will be tested even more in the next few years as biometric technology creeps
increasingly into everyday arenas. For example, on the campus of UC San Diego,
biometric experts are testing a soda machine that uses both fingerprint and
face-recognition technology. The machine is in a lounge for grad students in UC
San Diego's computer science building."The students are very excited about
getting it working," Serge Belongie, a UC San Diego associate professor of
computer science, says in a phone interview. "People think it's very cool. ...
No one uses money. They have accounts. What would be fun is if (the machine)
recognizes you and says, 'Would you like your usual?' "If UC San Diego students
are reluctant to use the machine, their privacy concerns are outweighed by
convenience -- a sentiment echoed in survey after survey on biometric
technology. In March, Unisys Corp. released a report on public perception of
"identity management" that said convenience and efficiency were the two biggest
reasons consumers would use biometric technology. (The most preferred biometric
methods are fingerprints and voice recognition, according to the survey. The
least preferred, because of its perceived intrusiveness, is an iris or eye
scan.)Two of the biggest turnoffs for those who shun biometric technology:
suspicion of how the technology works and loss of privacy. Among respondents
from North America, just 56 percent said they'd be willing to share their
fingerprint with a government organization such as a post office or tax
authority. Among respondents from the Asia-Pacific region, 71 percent said
they'd share their fingerprint with the government."As consumer confidence grows
in the large-scale usage of (biometric technology) and standards are more
generally comfortably adopted, you're going to see a pretty rapid migration" to
it, says Mark Cohn, Unisys vice president for homeland security solutions.Cohn,
a principal architect of the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT Exit
system, which uses fingerprint technology to run background checks on visa
applicants and verify their entry to and arrival from the United States, says
Malaysia offers a preview of how the United States may change in the coming
years.Since 2001, the Malay government has issued a biometric "multipurpose
card" to Malaysians 12 years and older. The card, which features a thumbprint
and photograph, acts as a passport, driver's license, ATM card, toll and parking
pass, and medical record that lists blood type and any allergies.The card is
convenient to use -- but it's a nightmare for Malaysians who lose it or have it
stolen. Crime syndicates in Malaysia have altered cards with different
photographs and used them to give members new identities, though the Malay
government insists these identity thieves can't access the original cardholders'
personal information. Special chip technology and other password features
prevent this, they say. Also, the cardholder's fingerprint -- rather than being
visible on the card -- is encrypted in the card itself: To reveal the
fingerprint, the card must be inserted into a special biometric device that
compares the encrypted print with that of the person claiming to be the
cardholder.For anyone who has read Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," where
"telescreens" keep track of people's lives, this new biometric technology will
seem like fiction come to life. It's showing up everywhere. By the end of this
year, U.S. passport agencies hope to issue "electronic passports" with computer
chips that have digital photos of the holders. With the help of face-recognition
machines, airport security can compare a photo with the face of the passport
holder. For two years, an American corporation, VeriChip, has sold
government-approved electronic chips that are inserted under people's skin to
give doctors instant access to patients' medical histories.In 2008, as mandated
by the Real ID Act, states plan to issue driver's licenses linked to a database
that includes each license holder's photo and Social Security number. These
licenses (civil liberties groups call them national identity cards) will likely
include a biometric photo of the driver accessible by authorities.In the
meantime, banks are considering using iris scans and even palm scans at ATMs in
an effort to cut down on fraud. (In 1999, Bank United in Texas adopted iris-scan
technology at three of its ATMs in a test that was discontinued when Washington
Mutual took over the bank.)Some people love the new technology. Others shun
it.Pay By Touch admits it has encountered some resistance among shoppers it
approached in supermarkets that already use the company's fingerprint service.
But Morris, its president, says many of these customers are quickly won over by
the convenience of Pay By Touch, which is free for consumers, and that the
company keeps data points based on users' fingerprints, not actual fingerprints.
So far, supermarkets in 40 states use the Pay By Touch system.Pay By Touch,
which is based in San Francisco, wouldn't say which Bay Area supermarket chain
will start using its fingerprint system in the next four months -- only that the
chain will use the system in just a handful of its Bay Area stores. Pay By Touch
users sign up voluntarily and are under no obligation to use it at the checkout
line.Pay By Touch says it takes great care to safeguard its users' data. After
fingerprints are converted into algorithms, they're encrypted, then stored in
IBM computers. Those algorithms can't be reconverted into an exact copy of the
fingerprint, though Pay By Touch may eventually store users' actual fingerprints
if the technology improves, Morris says. The company insists it will never sell
users' personal information or fingerprints to anyone else -- a pledge that's
backed up in writing when users sign up with the company. But what if federal
authorities, citing national security, insist on the finger scan and payment
history of a Pay By Touch user?Pam Dixon, who heads the World Privacy Forum, a
public research group, went to Chicago to warn potential Pay By Touch users
about possible dangers."It didn't stick," she says. "People were (more)
concerned with (convenience than) the potential risks. People can put their
thumb on a pad and be done with it. But meanwhile, their biometric data is
sitting with another company, a third party, that's subject to subpoena. One
argument that I made: Let's say that every supermarket in the country,
particularly the large chains, (use) a biometric payment system. It's a law
enforcement dream because who needs a biometric database run by the U.S.
government when you've got one being run by private companies?"Citing the recent
disclosure by the Veterans Administration, which said a computer with credit
information on millions of veterans had been stolen, Dixon says, "The second
issue is information security. If the VA can't keep its records secure, which is
a government agency that has all sorts of strict controls that are supposed to
be in place, how on Earth can a private company without the resources of
something like the VA manage to keep something secure? When we have a credit
card stolen, we can call the credit card company and say, 'Give me a new
number.' But you can't do that with your biometric. You can't say, 'Give me a
new fingerprint.' "Morris dismisses such concerns, saying that Pay By Touch will
actually decrease the likelihood that consumers' credit information is stolen or
misappropriated. "I think (Pay By Touch users) get pretty rapidly that it's the
ultimate way to secure their private data," he says. "It connects (their
accounts) to something that's uniquely them, as opposed to handing a credit card
over to a stranger or writing a personal check that seven or eight humans touch
before it gets in their statement. Securing information by a biometric is a
giant leap forward. (Users) like that they don't have to pull their card out
anymore. They (tell us they) like that they don't have to carry their (purses or
wallets) through the parking lot of an urban supermarket. There's a physical
security benefit. Their numbers are never displayed. The safety of securing
their data is the No. 1 thing they like."The marketplace will determine whether
the public is ready to accept commercial fingerprint identification. Investors
in Pay By Touch believe that day is here, capitalizing the company with $190
million in the past 12 months. More than 2.5 million shoppers already use the
Pay By Touch system. Morris envisions a day when all stores -- even mom-and-pop
ones -- offer a Pay By Touch option.Soon, customers will be able to use Pay By
Touch from home with the help of fingerprint readers attached to their
computers. In ancient China, rulers would put their fingerprints on documents to
give them an official seal. Artists would also mark their work with prints. It
wasn't until the late 1800s that authorities realized they could use
fingerprints to catch criminals. Their evolution as a way to pay for groceries
is a 21st century twist fueled by technology. It's also a trade-off between
privacy and convenience. Welcome to the brave new world in Aisle 5.
20 Şubat 2009 Cuma
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Our products are commonly used to determine the thickness of a variety of materials by making contact with only one side of the material being tested. They have the ability to detect very fine pits, flaws, and porosity in materials without having to destroy the material or parts being tested. This is done by converting the transit time of a sound wave, sent into and reflecting back from a defect or opposite surface in the test material, into a length measurement. This technique uses principles similar to that of sonar.
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PROMAX OD-576
60 MHz, 25 Gsamples/s Digital Storage Oscilloscope
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The OD-576 60 MHz bandwidth with a Mono LCD display, are designed and built to meet the demands of a modern DSO in the main stream market today. The Unmatched performance, valued plus features, user-friendly design and versatile interface make OD-570 series a very useful equipment for most of the applications in circuit design, production test, repair service and education lab. With almost everything you could expect from a DSO, OD-570 series provides you the best solution for waveform measurement at a surprisingly affordable price
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IBM to send blazing fast supercomputer to Energy Dept.
This story has been edited since it was published. See below for details.
IBM plans to announce on Tuesday that it will supply the world's fastest supercomputer to the U.S. Department of Energy in the next few years, according to numerous reports.
Not only will the machine, called Sequoia, be the fastest supercomputer to date, it will blow the current record-holder out of the water. IBM's Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, was the first system to reach 1.026 petaflops (a petaflop is equal to a quadrillion calculations per second; the "flops" stands for floating point operations per second). But only seven months after the Roadrunner took top honors on a twice-yearly list of the world's fastest supercomputers, IBM is announcing that its successor will outdo it by an order of magnitude. Sequoia will be able to work at a staggering 20 petaflops, the equivalent of the computing power of 2 million laptops according to Reuters.
IBM says it plans to deliver the Sequoia to the Energy Department for use at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The supercomputer will run simulations to test the soundness of the nation's stockpile of nuclear weaponry, according to the IDG News Service.
Editor's note: When it was initially published, this story cited data from another publication about Sequoia's energy usage. Several readers doubted the validity of the data, and I have not been able to confirm the figures. For now, that information has been removed.
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Add Scanning Capabilites to Your Huntron Tracker Model 30 System
Add Scanning Capabilites to Your Huntron Tracker Model 30 System
Adding
a Huntron® Scanner to your Tracker Model 30 system lets you access components
using standard DIP clips and cables, custom cables to PCB connectors or
interface to a bed-of-nails.You can compare one component with another in
real-time (64 pins max.) or use your PC to automate testing and scan up to 128
pins.Huntron Scanners can be used with a Huntron Access Prober to provide Common
line connections while the Prober is probing a PCB. This method gives you up to
128 selectable Commons to use. For example, you can connect the Scanner to a
connector on a PCB mounted in the Prober using a common ribbon style cable.
While the Prober is probing, any one of the lines on the connected ribbon cable
can be selected as the Common reference. This would provide you true
point-to-point testing capabilities.Note: The ProTrack Scanner will be replaced
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The Scanner II and Scanner
31S accessories add scanning capability to the Tracker Model 30
All Scanners
have a minimum 64 pin capability
The Scanner II can scan up to 128 pins when
the A and B channels are combined
The Scanner 31S use standard IDC style
connectors
The Scanner II uses the common SCSI-2 (68 pin) style connectors
Up to 8 Scanner IIs can be “daisy-chained” to increase the available number
of test pins
Selecting Accessories for your Scanner IIThe Scanner II
accessories for interfacing to your printed circuit board come "ala carte". This
means that you select the accessories you want included with your Scanner.
Choose from SMT or through-hole style DIP clip and cable kits (Scanner Adapter
required with Scanner II) or a mutli-pin breakout cable. Details on these
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Mobile consumption measurement with VA 400
Special features
• Easy installation of the consumption sensor under pressure
• Consumption sensor usable from 1/2” to 12” (DN 300)
• Depth scale for accurate installation
• Inner diameter adjustable via keypad
• All relevant measured data on one display:
Current consumption in m3/h, m3/min, l/min, l/sec or cfm
Total consumption in m3, l or cf, counter resttable
• Data logger for 1 mio. measured values
• USB interface
• Software for evaluation
The DS 300 mobile is a 4 channel data recorder in a robust casing. It has two input channels for flow and dew point sensors and two input channels for analogue process signals. The internal rechargeable battery enables mains independent measurements for up to 4 hours. For long term measurements the mains supply is to be connected. The collected data can be transferred to a PC and analyzed with CS Soft
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CFT COMPLIANCE INFORMATION
The following article provides an overview of legislation aimed at countering the financing of terrorism (CFT laws), and includes region-specific examples of CFT compliance legislation in the UK, USA and Europe.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, national and international compliance and regulatory frameworks rapidly expanded to include countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) as a central focus. Although terrorist attacks can be carried out with relatively small amounts of money, developing and maintaining terrorist support infrastructures for travel, safe houses and training can add up to substantial sums.
Targeting the financing structures of these terrorist networks – business and charitable fronts, states providing sanctuary and security, financiers and financial facilitators, and even transnational criminals such as arms dealers – has proven effective. Taking aim at these support networks significantly downgrades terrorists’ capacity for perpetrating attacks by compelling terrorist enablers to refuse assistance to stateless agents of radicalism and terror.
Within this context, national governments and international governing bodies and institutions around the world have implemented CFT legislation, and instituted regulatory initiatives to prevent terrorists and their supporters from exploiting banking and financial systems. These legal and regulatory measures have created many new compliance requirements for countless economic sectors. As such, it is necessary for financial and business professionals to be aware of CFT compliance requirements in general, and of industry-specific CFT regulations, in particular.
How is terrorist financing related to money laundering?
People launder money to hide the source of funds, which enables them to successfully use those funds in the legitimate economy. The aim of terrorist financing, however, is to ensure funding for terrorism-related activities. Whereas laundered funds always have illicit sources (otherwise there would be no need to launder the money), money used to finance terrorism can come from both legitimate and illegitimate sources. Indeed, the financing of terrorism is intended to camouflage the destination of funds and the nature of the activities being funded; whilst the process of laundering money is concerned chiefly with blurring the origins of the funds.
Examples of CFT legislation
Given the large number of legislative changes implemented over a relatively short period, CFT compliance now features a range of new requirements and features. The following list contains examples of CFT-relevant legislation, and in no way is intended to be a comprehensive list.
UNSC Resolution 1373 (2001)
UNSC Resolution 1373 was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks against the United States, and it is particularly important because it has been adopted, either in whole or in part, by numerous UN member states. It calls upon all nations to “prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts”, criminalise terrorist fundraising, to freeze terrorist funds, and to prohibit terrorists from gaining access to the world’s financial systems. Other UNSC resolutions impact CFT compliance and legislation, including UNSC Resolution 1267 (1999), which sanctioned and demanded the freezing of Taliban and Al-Qaida-controlled funds, and UNSC Resolution 1566 (2004), which updated the UN’s definition of terrorism.
The UK Terrorism Act
The UK enacted the Terrorism Act of 2000 as “the primary piece of counterterrorism legislation”, according to the UK Home Office. Created in response to the increasing internationalisation of terror, the Act broadened the scope of UK anti-terrorism legislation that had been more narrowly focused on Northern Ireland.
Three key elements of the Terrorism Act of 2000 include: • Proscription of 46 international terrorist organisations in addition to the 14 pertaining to Northern Ireland • Enhancement of the police’s investigatory powers • Criminalisation of terrorism-related offenses such as the incitement of terrorist acts.
Several years later, the implementation of the Terrorism Act of 2006 aimed to provide law enforcement departments, intelligence agencies and courts with the necessary tools to combat terrorism. The law also broadened the scope of criminalised terrorist-related activities to include glorification of terrorism, dissemination of terrorist publications, and terrorist training as offenses. The Act proscribed two additional terrorist organisations, on the grounds that they glorified terrorism. Other UK counter-terrorism legislation includes the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 and the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 2005.
The USA PATRIOT Act
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was signed into law on 26 October 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The USA PATRIOT Act is a far reaching law with special significance to any bank or corporation that does business in the US or with US partners. One section of particular interest to CFT compliance is Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001. Many provisions of this complex law are germane to the financial community and require much more extensive review than this summary brief allows.
On 12 March 2002, former US Treasury Under Secretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurule addressed the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade, and outlined several of the key provisions of the Act.
US Executive Order 13224
Executive Order 13224 was signed by President Bush on 23 September 2001 in order to give the US Government a powerful tool to impede terrorist financing. In general, the Order enables the disruption of financial or other terrorist support networks by authorising the US government to designate and block the assets of terrorism-related foreign individuals and entities. The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) executes the Order 13224 through its Anti-Terrorism Sanctions Program.
FATF 40 + 9 Recommendations
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued 40 Recommendations on money laundering which, combined with the 9 Special Recommendations on terrorist financing, effectively cover the regulatory spectrum with respect to Anti Money Laundering (AML) and CFT.
The FATF 40 and 9 Special Recommendations are intended to serve as a framework to “detect, prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism and terrorist acts”. While not laws of themselves, many countries have adopted these recommendations in whole or in part.
Subjects covered in the 9 Special Recommendations include: • Criminalising the financing of terrorism and associated money laundering • Freezing and confiscating terrorist assets • Reporting suspicious transactions related to terrorism, international cooperation, alternative remittance, wire transfers, non-profit organisations and cash couriers.
The EU Third Money Laundering Directive (3MLD)
The EU Third Money Laundering Directive, adopted in 2005, required that member states comply with this directive by 15 December 2007. The Directive expands previous EU regulations in order to fully comply with the FATF 40 and 9 Special Recommendations.
The scope of the 3MLD is broad with respect to affected industries; its provisions affect not only members of the financial system, but also lawyers, notaries, accountants, real estate agents, casino operators, trust, and company service providers. The Directive also extends to all providers of goods where cash payments in excess of €15,000 are made, irrespective of whether the payment is completed in one transaction, or in cases where several transactions appear to be linked.
One of the main requirements of the 3MLD is increased Customer Due Diligence. It is mandated that all required service providers identify and verify the identity of their customers and possible beneficial owners of client entities, and that they continue to monitor their business relationship with customers. The Directive also sets out Enhanced Customer Due Diligence requirements for high-risk customers, such as those who have never been physically present in the business relationship.
Reporting obligations is another important subject covered in the 3MLD. The Directive requires that member states establish a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to effectively combat terrorist financing and money laundering. It also requires that the FIU has access to information that it requires to fulfil its tasks. It specifically prohibits (Chapter 3, Section 2, Article 28) companies from disclosing to a customer or third party that an investigation has commenced.
Other topics covered in the 3MLD include record-keeping and statistical data storage, as well as enforcement and implementation measures. The 3MLD repeals previous EU Money Laundering Directives, and has been adopted by many member states.
PEP COMPLIANCE OVERVIEW
World-Check, the leading global PEP database solution, provides an overview of the PEP compliance challenge faced by banks, accounting firms, lawyers and other financial service providers, and also explores the nature and origins of PEP compliance legislation.
PEPs: An introduction
Somewhat unfairly, a series of well publicised events and financial scandals involving highly placed governmental officials and a number of former political dictators earned PEPs worldwide a reputation as being ’risky‘ clients. Yet while dealing with this category of prospective clients certainly requires Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and ongoing transactional scrutiny, it would be incorrect to assume that the overwhelming majority of PEPs weren’t desirable clients.
There is nothing wrong with dealing with PEPs, provided that the source of their income is transparent and able to withstand scrutiny. Key to mitigating your organisation’s “PEP risk” is the ability to determine between PEPs who warrant enhanced risk management and those that don't.
What is PEP risk?
From an institutional perspective, the risks associated with a lack of PEP due diligence do not stop at regulatory fines for non-compliance. There is also the risk of severe reputational damage. To compound the PEP risk management challenge, a Politically Exposed Person can become compromised at any given point by just one transaction.
Institutions such as Riggs Bank or the Swiss financial houses indicted for their dealings with Augusta Pinochet, serve as a warning against a lack of PEP risk management practices and one that institutions cannot disregard. At the heart of the PEP issue lies risk management; but to understand the need for PEP risk management, the origins of PEP risk need to be examined.
Origins of PEP compliance
During the past couple of decades, several top financial institutions in the world learnt the value of PEP due diligence the hard way. Several Swiss banking houses suffered much public embarrassment relating to their dealings with Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines, and his family. When it emerged that the dictator and his wife had defrauded the Philippines government of millions of dollars and deposited the proceeds in Swiss bank accounts, the resultant financial scandal and lingering bad publicity illustrated the need for knowing who your customers are, and to be aware of what they are doing financially. The scandal is generally credited as the beginnings of PEP compliance legislation. The term ’Politically Exposed Person‘ has since been use in the Swiss banking community, and was originally created to define a category of high-profile clients whose business warranted a higher level of risk management. Within the financial services industry, PEP Due Diligence thus evolved.
Over time, emerging Anti Money Laundering and PEP-specific legislation would make PEP Due Diligence a legal requirement for most regulated financial service providers and, more recently. many other sectors and industries as well.
But what are the qualifying criteria for being a Politically Exposed Person?
What exactly is a PEP?
According to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental regulatory body spearheading the implementation of global Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Anti Terrorist Financing (ATF) legislation, PEPs are past or current officeholders, or individuals who are or were formerly entrusted with high-level public functions in a foreign country. Examples of these positions of trust and power include senior politicians, heads of state or of government, senior judicial or military officials, important officials of political parties as well as senior executives of state owned enterprises.
PEPs: More than just politicians
It is not just the primary officeholder that businesses need to assess for PEP risk, but their family and business networks as well.
Access to the banking system can being gained through connected individuals, shell companies or other legal entities, and as a result, existing PEP definitions also include family members and close associates of a primary PEP.
The Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 leading international banks, broadened this definition to include individuals whose current or past official position can attract publicity beyond the borders of their home country, or whose financial actions or circumstances may be the subject of increased public scrutiny.
What is ‘Existing Client’ Risk?
During the period 2005 to 2007 alone, more than 310 elections and by-elections took place around the world – that’s an average of nearly 10 elections per month. (Source: ElectionGuide.org). This means that your existing clients may be elected to public office, and hence become PEPs, without your business knowing it. It may be that you only apply your Enhanced Due Diligence processes to new customers and so miss a whole category of individuals that do not meet your corporate risk appetite. As such, routine and ongoing PEP risk screening is not only considered best practice, but is also a legal requirement.
In practice, full compliance with PEP legislation has not come without major operational challenges. In the post-9/11 era, the proliferation of regulatory compliance laws, combined with the need to screen hundreds of thousands of users and accounts on a routine basis, has created a substantial administrative burden for businesses subject to PEP legislation.
The sheer magnitude of the due diligence challenge has subsequently led to the adoption of a risk-based approach to regulatory compliance, but nevertheless Enhanced Due Diligence and ongoing risk management is still required for PEPs.
What is the risk-based compliance approach?
Broadly speaking, the risk-based approach entails the identification of risks that exceed your business’ stated risk appetite (including the need for regulatory compliance), and then matching individuals and entities against these heightened risks during the preliminary stages of due diligence. Should a person fall into one or more of the specified heightened risk categories, additional due diligence ('Enhanced Due Diligence'/'EDD') is then required.
Many operational PEP definitions are based on the FATF PEP definition, yet the recent trend has seen also certain national and regional definitions becoming broader in their interpretation of what a Politically Exposed Person is. World-Check's PEP White Paper seeks to contribute to the refinement of the PEP definition and to provide businesses with guidance for dealing with PEPs – especially in jurisdictions where politics and business are closely related.
World-Check: A comprehensive PEP compliance solution
Featuring a database of hundreds of thousands of Politically Exposed Persons, robust data mining capabilities and the ability to bulk-filter entire client bases routinely, World-Check enables your business to meet its PEP compliance obligations with ease and on an ongoing basis. Significantly, it is not just the sheer number of profiles in our PEP database that counts, but also the system’s ability to identify and critically assess PEP risk.
About the World-Check PEP database
More than 70% of the Egmont Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) have access to World-Check’s PEP risk intelligence. World-Check emphasises quality, rather than quantity, and sets out to aid organisations in identifying and mitigating actual PEP risk, rather than merely “ticking the boxes” and confirming the position of a Politically Exposed Person. Thousands of new profiles are added to the World-Check PEP database each month, whilst older ones are constantly updated as new public source data becomes available.
Widely recognised as industry pioneer and thought leader in the field of PEP due diligence and risk mitigation, World-Check CEO David Leppan is frequently called upon to address top-level industry conferences as a keynote speaker on PEP-related issues and challenges.
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Super Series™Vacuum Furnace SystemIt’s
super-precise and super-fast. The
T-M Vacuum Super Series vacuum furnace system is the high-
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assembly, a precision heating environment is created for perfect temperature
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high-speed pumping system to reach high vacuum quicker,maximizing your
productivity and quality with a cleaner work zone. With its inert gas on board
Quick Cool System, the metallurgical gas quench increases your cycle times by
rapidly cooling the chamber and increasing your product output.The Super Series
HMI software system can be configured with our controlled cooling,allows the
user to precisely control the cooling environment.The Super Series vacuum
furnace system can also be configured to accept multiple process gases. Once you
have determined your specific process parameters,the computerized control system
takes over to completely automate the process and archive all system data. An
operator needs only to load and unload the chamber and press the start
button.The Super Series vacuum furnace system is a completely contained unit
with no exposed wires, cables or pumps.This saves you valuable factory floor
space, and keeps your unit clean and easy to maintain. System installation is as
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zone is not large enough for your application, please ask about our PACER Series
Vacuum Furnace System.Temperature Capabilities and Controllability 10 series
1000°C (1832°F)13 series 1315°C (2400°F)14.5 series 1415°C (2650°F)16.5 series
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speed:2,400 l/s
42.2 cfm mechanical roughing & backing pump
3.8 cfm
mechanical hold pump
Available:
Upgraded pumping systems – Mechanical,
dry, diffusion, cryogenic, and turbo-molecular
Molecular Sieve or
Mechanically refrigerated, optically-dense, cold trap in roughing line or liquid
nitrogen cryo-trap in high-vacuum line (for prevention of hydrocarbon
contamination)
Inert Gas and Quick Cool System
10 HP blower – 4,200 cfm
free air displacement
Gas/water heat exchanger
18 vents directing Quick
Cool gas onto workload
Integral with furnace chamber, no externally mounted
components
Available:
Multiple-process gas capability
Controlled
Cooling
System Controls
The “E” control system: full PC, PLC, and HMI
software control package will provide superior control, system analysis, recipe
management, and data acquisition. With more than 14 user-friendly screens
displayed on its 17" LCD flat panel touch screen, this state-of-the-art system
eliminates the need for separate programmers, controllers and message
displays.
Over-temperature control
Digital vacuum display
Center of
load thermocouple standard
Emergency Stop
Available:
Multiple-survey
thermocouples
Uninterrupted power supplies (UPS)
Multiple-channel color
strip chart recorder
Operating Pressure Range
High-vacuum to 2-bar (higher
pressures available)
Working pressure at maximum temperature: high-vacuum to
1 torr (higher pressures available)
Capable of pressures between atmosphere
and 2-bar (for Quick Cool use)
6-bar available
Hot Zone
Construction
Usable work zone 12" W x 12" H x 24" D
Usable work zone
volume of 2 cubic feet
Work load capacity 200 lbs
Round,
horizontally-mounted Hot Zone comprised of six (6) high temp/lowresistance
molybdenum 2" band heater elements
Heat shielding is composed of molybdenum
layers backed by stainless steel layersin stainless steel containment and an
electro-pneumatically operated Heat Pack door shield assembly
Complete Hot
Zone is easily removable as a unit for fast maintenance and less down
time
Molybdenum hearth assembly is 12" W x 24"D
Available:
Graphite and
tungsten heating elements
Graphite insulation in stainless steel
containment
Chamber
All-stainless steel construction including head-end
closure and water jacketing
Dual-wall chamber configuration designed to allow
complete water-to-surface contact
Stainless steel dual-wall, water-cooled
door
Water cooling for power feed-thru is external to vacuum chamber,
eliminating thepossibility of water leaking into the chamber
Six clamp over
center pneumatic clamp/locking door
Working pressure: Full vacuum to 2-bar
(6-bar available)Safety FeaturesAll T-M Vacuum Products, Inc. products are
equipped with standard safety features toensure safe operation.Please consult
T-M Vacuum Products, Inc. at (856) 829-2000 for availability and pricing of
these or any other option requirements.*All times and pressures are for clean,
dry, empty, out-gassed furnace, starting from ambient pressure and temperature,
and may vary. Times and pressures subject to pump size and maximum
temperature.
Super Series Vacuum Furnace Interior
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ASC completes
Statistics
Inside working diameter: 30ft. (9.26M)
Ouside diameter: 32ft. (9.88M)
Inside working length: 76 ft. (23.5M)
Overall length: 112 ft. (34.5M)
Vessel volume: 82,000 cu.ft.
Max temperature: 450F
Max pressure: 150 psig
Heating system: 40 million BTU/hr
Control system: CPC Level III
Weight: over 1,000,000 lbs.
Man-hours to construct: 65,000+
Interior view
Image shows length and rear-mounted cooling coil/radiator which stands 20ft (6.2M) tall.
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KYC compliance
Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance regulation has proved to be
one of the biggest operational challenges banks, accountants, lawyers and
similar financial service providers worldwide have had to
overcome.
World-Check, the industry standard KYC compliance solution,
provides an overview of KYC compliance and its origins, and outlines the
compliance mandate as applicable to banks, accounting firms, lawyers and other
regulated financial service providers – not just in the UK, Europe and the USA,
but all around the world. Relied upon by more than 3,000 institutions worldwide,
this KYC database solution provides effective legal and reputational risk
reduction.
Why “Know Your Customer?”
The 9/11 terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Centre revealed that there were sinister forces at
work around the world, and that terrorists activities were being funded with
laundered money, the proceeds of illicit activities such as narcotics and human
trafficking, fraud and organised crime. Overnight, the combating of terrorist
financing became a priority on the international agenda.
For the
financial services provider of the 21st century, “knowing your customers” was no
longer a suggested course of action. Based on the requirements of legislative
landmarks such as the USA PATRIOT Act 2002, modern Know Your Customer (KYC)
compliance mandates were created to simultaneously combat money laundering and
the funding of terrorist activities.
What is Know Your Customer
(KYC)?
Know Your Customer, or KYC, refers to the regulatory
compliance mandate imposed on financial service providers to implement a
Customer Identification Programme and perform due diligence checks before doing
business with a person or entity.
KYC fulfils a risk mitigation function,
and one its key requirements is checking that a prospective customer is not
listed on any government lists for wanted money launders, known fraudsters or
terrorists.
If preliminary KYC checks reveal that the person is a
Politically Exposed Person (PEP), for example, Advanced Due Diligence must be
done in order to ensure that the person’s source of wealth is transparent, and
that he or she does not pose a reputational or financial risk in terms of their
finances, public positions or associations. Beyond customer identification
checks, the ongoing monitoring of transfers and financial transactions against a
range of risk variables forms an integral part of the KYC compliance
mandate.
But to understand the importance of KYC compliance for financial
service providers better, its origins need to be examined.
Origins of
Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance
The arrival of the new millennium
was marred by a spate of terrorist attacks and corporate scandals that unmasked
the darker features of globalisation. These events highlighted the role of money
laundering in cross-border crime and terrorism, and underlined the need to clamp
down on the exploitation of financial systems worldwide.
Know Your
Customer (KYC) legislation was principally not absent prior to 9/11. Regulated
financial service providers for a long time have been required to conduct due
diligence and customer identification checks in order to mitigate their own
operation risks, and to ensure a consistent and acceptable level of
service.
In essence, the USA PATRIOT Act was not so much a radical
departure from prior legislation as it was a firmer and more extensive
articulation of existing laws. The Act would lead to the more rigorous
regulation of a greater range of financial services providers, and expanded the
authority of American law enforcement agencies in the fighting of terrorism,
both in the USA and abroad.
In October 2001, President George W. Bush
signed off the USA PATRIOT Act, effectively providing federal regulators with a
new range of tools and powers for fighting terror financing and money
laundering. During July 2002, the US Treasury proceeded to introduce Section 326
of the PATRIOT Act, a clause that removed some key burdens for regulators and
added significant enforcement muscle to the Act.
What 9/11 changed, in
essence, was the extent to which existing legislation was being implemented.
Using the provisions of the earlier anti-terrorism USA Act as a foundation, it
included the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, which allowed for federal
jurisdiction over foreign money launders and money laundered through foreign
banks. Significantly, it is this anti-terror law that would make the creation of
an Anti Money Laundering (AML) programme compulsory for all financial
institutions and service providers.
Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act
dealt specifically with the identification of new customers (“CIP regulation”),
and made extensive provisions in terms of KYC and the methods employed to verify
client identities.
In accordance with this piece of updated KYC
legislation, federal regulators would hold financial institutions accountable
for the effectiveness of their initial customer identification and ongoing KYC
screening. Institutions are required to keep detailed records of the steps that
were taken to verify prospective clients’ identities.
Although current
KYC legislation does not yet demand the exclusion of specific types of
foreign-issued identification, it recommends the usage of machine-verifiable
identity documents. The ability to notify financial institutions if concerns
regarding specific types of identification were to arise, combined with a
risk-based approach to KYC, proved to provide a robust mechanism for addressing
security concerns.
Effectively, the risk-based approach to customer due
diligence grants regulated institutions a certain degree of flexibility to
determine the forms of identification they will accept, and under which
conditions.
KYC compliance: Implications for banks, lawyers and
accounting firms
The KYC compliance mandate, for all its positive
outcomes, has burdened companies and organisations with a substantial
administrative obligation. Additionally, KYC compliance increasingly entails the
creation of auditable proof of due diligence activities, in addition to the need
for customer identification.
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Analyzing Your Electricity Loads
Calculating your electricity needs is the first step in the process of investigating renewable energy systems for your home or small business. A thorough examination of your electricity needs helps you determine the following:
* The size (and therefore, cost) of the system you’ll need* How your energy needs fluctuate throughout the day and over the year* Measures you can take to reduce your electricity use.
Conducting a load analysis involves recording the wattage and average daily use of all of the electrical devices which are plugged into your central power source, such as refrigerators, lights, televisions, and power tools. Some loads, like your refrigerator, use electricity all the time, while others, like power tools, use electricity intermittently. Loads that use electricity intermittently are often referred to as selectable loads. If you are willing to use your selectable loads only when you have extra power available, you may be able to install a smaller renewable energy system.
To determine your total electricity consumption:
*
Multiply the wattage of each appliance by the number of hours it is used each day (be sure to take seasonal variations into account). Some appliances do not give the wattage, so you may have to calculate the wattage by multiplying the amperes times the volts. Generally, power use data can be found on a sticker, metal plate, or cord attached to the appliance.*
Record the time(s) of day the load runs for all selectable loads.
See Learn More on the right side of this page (or below if you’ve printed it out) for resources and tools to help you analyze your electricity loads.
For information about determining the overall energy efficiency of your home, see energy audits.
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