The University of California-Davis
( ucdavis.edu ) is just west of
Sacramento, about 15 miles. If
you were to take I-80 southwest
from the campus and connect
with Highway 12, within the hour
you'd fnd yourself on Hwy 29
and traveling north through the
Napa Valley. According to the
university's website, UC-Davis is:
• 1st among national universities
in number of faculty papers
by Gary S. Vasilash > Editor-in-Chief
written in the feld of ecology
and the environment, agriculture,
entomology, food science and
nutrition, and plant and animal
sciences ( ScienceWatch)
This emphasis on ecology and the
environment, given its location, is
not surprising. But about three
miles east of the center of campus,
there is something that is surprising.
It is called the Digital Technology
Laboratory (DTL). That sounds
If you maximize spindle utilization and don't use energy
to run pumps when a machine is idle, you'll make more
(parts and money). So explains Adam Hansel of DMG MORI.
How to Make
MACHINE TOOLS
More Sustainable
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