Bøger af Nikola

In recent years, the field of supply chain management has witnessed a significant transformation with the advent of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This groundbreaking technology has revolutionized the way organizations approach their supply chain operations, offering immense potential for streamlining processes, reducing costs, and maximizing efficiency. In this subchapter, we will delve into the key aspects of RPA and explore its crucial role in optimizing supply chain operations.RPA refers to the use of software robots or intelligent bots to automate repetitive, rule-based tasks within a business process. These bots are programmed to mimic human actions and interactions with various systems, applications, and data sources. By automating mundane tasks such as data entry, order processing, inventory management, and invoice generation, RPA eliminates human error, accelerates processes, and frees up valuable human resources to focus on more strategic activities.One of the primary advantages of RPA in supply chain optimization is its ability to enhance speed and accuracy. Unlike humans, robots can work tirelessly 24/7, ensuring round-the-clock operations and faster cycle times. This enables organizations to meet customer demands promptly, reduce lead times, and improve overall customer satisfaction. Moreover, RPA ensures higher accuracy by minimizing the risk of human errors, eliminating data duplication, and enhancing data quality.Another vital aspect of RPA is its seamless integration with existing systems and technologies. RPA bots can effortlessly interact with legacy systems, ERPs, CRMs, and other software applications, effectively bridging the gap between disparate systems and enabling data synchronization in real-time. This integration capability enhances visibility and transparency across the supply chain, enabling organizations to make informed decisions, identify bottlenecks, and optimize processes for maximum efficiency.Furthermore, RPA offers scalability and flexibility, making it an ideal solution for organizations of all sizes and industries. Whether it's a small e-commerce startup or a multinational conglomerate, RPA can be tailored to suit specific business requirements and seamlessly adapt to changing operational needs. This flexibility allows organizations to scale their operations without significant additional costs, ensuring long-term sustainability and growth.

Included in this volume: "Plans to Dispense With Artillery of the Present Type," "On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator," "On Current Interrupters," "Tesla's New Discovery," "Talking With The Planets," "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires," "Electric Autos," "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace," and "Tuned Lightning."

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future. Whence does it come? What is it? Whither does it tend? are the great questions which the sages of all times have endeavored to answer. Modern science says: The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Lord Kelvin, in his profound meditations, allows us only a short span of life, something like six million years, after which time the suns bright light will have ceased to shine, and its life giving heat will have ebbed away, and our own earth will be a lump of ice, hurrying on through the eternal night. But do not let us despair. There will still be left upon it a glimmering spark of life, and there will be a chance to kindle a new fire on some distant star. This wonderful possibility seems, indeed, to exist, judging from Professor Dewar's beautiful experiments with liquid air, which show that germs of organic life are not destroyed by cold, no matter how intense; consequently they may be transmitted through the interstellar space. Meanwhile the cheering lights of science and art, ever increasing in intensity, illuminate our path, and marvels they disclose, and the enjoyments they offer, make us measurably forgetful of the gloomy future. Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia, all force tends to persist. Owing to this universal property and condition, a body, be it at rest or in motion, tends to remain in the same state, and a force, manifesting itself anywhere and through whatever cause, produces an equivalent opposing force, and as an absolute necessity of this it follows that every movement in nature must be rhythmical. Long ago this simple truth was clearly pointed out by Herbert Spencer, who arrived at it through a somewhat different process of reasoning. It is borne out in everything we perceive-in the movement of a planet, in the surging and ebbing of the tide, in the reverberations of the air, the swinging of a pendulum, the oscillations of an electric current, and in the infinitely varied phenomena of organic life. Does not the whole of human life attest to it? Birth, growth, old age, and death of an individual, family, race, or nation, what is it all but a rhythm? All life-manifestation, then, even in its most intricate form, as exemplified in man, however involved and inscrutable, is only a movement, to which the same general laws of movement which govern throughout the physical universe must be applicable.

A short time ago I had the honor to bring before our American Institute of Electrical Engineers some results then arrived at by me in a novel line of work. I need not assure you that the many evidences which I have received that English scientific men and engineers were interested in this work have been for me a great reward and encouragement. I will not dwell upon the experiments already described, except with the view of completing, or more clearly expressing, some ideas advanced by me before, and also with the view of rendering the study here presented self-contained, and my remarks on the subject of this evening's lecture consistent. This investigation, then, it goes without saying, deals with alternating currents, and, to be more precise, with alternating currents of high potential and high frequency. Just in how much a very high frequency is essential for the production of the results presented is a question which, even with my present experience, would embarrass me to answer. Some of the experiments may be performed with low frequencies; but very high frequencies are desirable, not only on account of the many effects secured by their use, but also as a convenient means of obtaining, in the induction apparatus employed, the high potentials, which in their turn are necessary to the demonstration of most of the experiments here contemplated.

A lecture delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891.

A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 1893, and before the National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, March 1893.