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Electronics test company

Vibration, Heat and Light

Innovation at Both Ends of the Technology Spectrum

Stretching beyond what you can see with the human eye has been a technician’s advantage since early history. Early humans followed the movement of distant animal herds by subtle vibrations that echoed through the ground. They calibrated the seasons by barely discernable temperature fluctuations paired with changes in light patterns.

Today’s technology breakthroughs are putting new of levels of detection patterning and diagnostics into the toolkits of more and more technicians using the same basic elements: light and heat.

Breakthroughs happening at the high end of thermal imaging technology – incorporating laser range-finding devices into the focusing mechanism of thermal imagers – and in new, affordable-yet-powerful classes of thermography, are putting sophisticated diagnostic tools into the hands of experts on the ground. ...

Web feature

ActionEco.org

Three Days, One Energy Audit, $365K Savings

Danaher Corporation plays offense.

A $13 billion global corporation with hundreds of companies around the world, Danaher Corporation is known for its Danaher Business System, the process it uses to run its enterprise and drive a continual cycle of change and improvement in operational efficiency and cost.

In Q3 2008, as part of that ongoing improvement cycle, Danaher launched an initiative to see if it could cut operational costs by analyzing its use of energy and reducing all types of waste.

Danaher created an energy task force led by Danaher Corporate VP Brian Burnett, which included representatives from a number of Danaher companies. The team created a formal ‘kaizen’ process and accepted a formidable challenge: build a sustainable energy conservation process that would generate year-over-year results ...

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Chamber of Commerce

Waterfront vistas that stretch to tomorrow. Rugged Pacific Northwest mountain ranges. Open-air markets, galleries, theater, world-class concerts and professional sports teams. From the bark of a sea lion in Port Gardner Bay to the distant peaks of the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, the City of Everett fires the imagination.

Everett, a thriving, cosmopolitan community just 30 minutes north of Seattle, is located between Washington State’s beautiful Cascade Mountain Range to the east and hundreds of forested islands and the oceanic wildlife of the Puget Sound to the west. More than 95,000 residents enjoy its mild, marine climate and its position in the center of the Pacific Northwest’s technology corridor.

Over the years, Everett’s transformation from a mill town to an urban center and aerospace center of excellence has been a labor of love for its residents. Since the city was incorporated in 1893, Everett citizens have never lost their commitment to making their city a center of commerce and a magnet for creative thinking.

Perhaps best known for the Boeing Co.’s massive Everett manufacturing complex, which sits to the south of the downtown core, Everett is a bustling retail, financial and government center, as well as a relaxing destination for dining, entertainment and art. ...

Introduction

Grant documentation manual

It started with a cup of coffee.

Bothell Police Chief Mark Ericks and Bruce Mulvey, who heads Northshore Youth and Family Services, got together regularly for coffee. It was an opportunity for law enforcement and the social service agency to trade informal “state of the city” analyses. Bothell, Wash., population 30,910, was growing fast, like many Western Washington cities, and the challenges were getting more urban. People didn’t always know their neighbors any more. Parents weren’t home to keep an eye on their teens and, like always, some teens were straying into enough trouble to attract the attention of law enforcement.

But once a child first becomes involved in criminal behavior, things can go sour fast. A juvenile criminal record can haunt a young man or woman well into adulthood, affecting their ability to get a job or their educational opportunities. Court action is expensive, and studies show that legal punishment alone does not have a good track record of preventing repeat offenses.

“What if we could put together a program for non-violent, first-offenders that got to the heart of the problem, avoided court action and deterred these kids from further trouble?” Ericks asked.

So they did.

Today the Juvenile Intervention Program has been formally adopted by 5 cities in Washington State. Youth and their families are receiving services within 72 hours of apprehension and the program’s recidivism rate is an astoundingly low 3.4 percent, compared with more than 25 percent using the criminal justice system. ...