Focusing on Technology and Services, Competing in China Die Casting Market

The Asia-Pacific Die Casting Industry Exhibition 2005, organized by Foundry Institution of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society （FICMES）, was held in INTEX Shanghai, China on August 14-17, 2005. On August 16th, the journalists of CHINA FOUNDRY journal visited five exhibitors on the spot of exhibition. They are： Mr. Roland FINK, General manager of Frech （Shanghai） Die Casting Machine Co. Ltd.; Mr. Thomas STROBL, General manager of Buhler Equipment Engineering （Wuxi） Co. Ltd., Switzerland; Mr. WANG Tong, Manager of ABB Engineering （Shanghai） Co. Ltd.; Ms. Karen LUO, National Sales Manager-Die Casting, Chem-Trend （Shanghai） Trading Co. Ltd.; and Mr. David ZHOU, Sales Supervisor of Acheson, the National Starch ＆ Chemical （Shanghai） Company.

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ZTE Corporation is China’s largest listedtelecommunications equipment provider spe-cialized in offering a full range of tailor-madesolutions for customers in high-,middle-andlow-end markets.

Current issues in high-resolution earth observation technology

This paper reviewed the developments of the last ten years in the field of international high-resolution earth observation, and introduced the developmental status and plans for China's high-resolution earth observation program. In addition, this paper expounded the transformation mechanism and procedure from earth observation data to geospatial information and geographical knowledge, and examined the key scientific and technological issues, including earth observation networks, high-precision image positioning, image understanding, automatic spatial information extraction, and focus services. These analyses provide a new impetus for pushing the application of China's high-resolution earth observation system from a "quantity" to "quality" change, from China to the world, from providing products to providing online service.

A framework design for the Chinese National Disaster Reduction System of Systems(CNDRSS)

China is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.Currently,the disaster prevention and relief mechanism in China is mainly based on single disaster types and is implemented by different ministries and divisions in single administrative regions.Subsequently,the available resources,including data,services,materials,and human resources,cannot be shared and used effectively.Based on the idea of an observation system of systems and a business system of systems,this paper presents an integrated framework for a Chinese National Disaster Reduction System of Systems(CNDRSS)to address this issue.The CNDRSS framework aims to achieve data sharing and collaboration among different disaster-related ministries/institutions by providing one-stop services for all phases of disaster management and linking together existing and planned disaster-related business systems and observation systems.The key technologies use federated databases and a web service to integrate multiple disaster management systems among different ministries/institutions and a sensor web to integrate airborne,space-borne,and in-situ observations through the web service.These event-driven focused-services connecting the various observations,processing,and mapping processes can meet the requirements for complex disasterchain systems.

An integrated geospatial information service system for disaster management in China

The Chinese Government and citizens face enormous challenges of disaster management as widespread devastation,economic damages,and loss of human lives caused by increasing natural disasters.Disaster management requires a complicated iterative process that includes disaster monitoring,early detection,forecasting,loss assessment,and efficient analysis of disaster reduction.Each task typically involves the use of technologists and multiple geospatial information resources,including sensors,data sources,models,geo-tools,software packages,and computing resources.However,most existing disaster management systems operate in a typical passive data-centric mode,where resources cannot be fully utilized.This impediment is partially being addressed by the increasingly complex application requirements and the growing availability of diverse resources.In this paper,we summarize and analyze the practical problems experienced by the National Disaster Reduction Application System of China.To address the issues of data-centric,centralized,isolated solutions,we propose a novel Focusing Service Mechanism,which is capable of scheduling and allocating for optimum utilization of multiple resources,to dynamically generate collaborative and on-demand disaster information services.We also demonstrate the design and implementation of the Integrated Disaster Information Service System(IDISS).Through the service strategies of Virtualizing,Wrapping,and Integrating,disasterrelated resources are constructed into services in the IDISS.These services are dynamically aggregated into focusing service chains,for diverse disaster management tasks.Actual applications illustrate that the proposed service system can significantly improve the capability of disaster management in China.