Why Computer ENERGY STAR Ratings Matter More Than You Think

You cannot miss the ENERGY STAR® labels. The distinctive white letters-on-blue square can be found on many products, from appliances like washers and dryers and medical monitors, to the latest high-rise buildings. While many shoppers simply ignore them, to many more they’re an essential requirement…


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How Smart Grid Technology is Revolutionizing Energy Management

You’re scanning inventory with your industrial tablet and its built-in RFID reader when the lights go out in the warehouse. You curse softly as you reach for your phone; this is the third blackout this month, and it’s not even summertime yet. Why aren’t the power companies doing something about…


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Green Mining Innovations: Paving the Way for a Cleaner Future

Countries around the world are demanding greater environmental accountability of themselves and others. Many are turning to technology for answers. Industrial computers, which can be built to consume less power, is one such example. The mining industry is a major industrial sector going green.…


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What is Green Computing and How Can Companies Start Applying it?

You wouldn’t think IT would need to be involved with major non-computer policies such as global warming. But the impact of computing devices on the environment is undeniable, and companies worldwide are turning to green computing as a solution. Coverage of this important topic is the subject matter…


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4 Routes to Help Automakers’ Sustainability Efforts

Sustainability and other “green practices” are part of many industries’ strategic goals around the globe. Car manufacturing, especially, has it high on their objective list since transportation is the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions. Being an environmentally-conscious company…


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3 Ways Steel Companies Are Reducing Carbon Emissions

Steel manufacturing is an important part of our modern world. Imagine a world without steel. How would our buildings look? Same with our cars, ships, etc.   As you can imagine, construction gets the lion share of steel production with a whopping 52 percent. This is followed by the production of…


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Cloud Computing is Transforming the Oil and Gas Industry

Cloud computing has the power to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and eco-friendly on every level.  Cloud computing provides a decentralized place to store and access data with virtually no limit, which makes data analysis much easier for those making the big decisions in the gas and…


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Best Practices for Manufacturers When Going Green

You already know that going green involves redesigning a single product or process at your facility to make it more environmentally-friendly. And that being sustainable is looking at a product’s entire life-cycle as a whole, like sourcing goods composed of recyclable materials, processed locally in…


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Industrial Computers and the Future of Sustainability

While the upheaval caused by COVID-19 has understandably dominated global attention for the past year and a half, it has distracted from another long-simmering crisis: climate change. The pandemic will subside, but our impact on the environment will remain. It’s easy to pay lip service to…


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How Industrial PCs are Shaping Clean Energy

The future is green. We’ve been hearing it for years. However, for most of the past five decades, clean energy just has not been economically feasible on a large scale. Despite finite supply and increasing environmental pressure from climate change, we are still largely reliant on fossil fuels for…


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