DuPont, not KKR, to buy Herberts

Some history to remind, it was November 1998 when… link “DuPont is to buy the Herberts coatings operation of Hoechst, replacing USfinancial buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts(KKR)…” They continually are exceptional: “DuPont says it has been looking at the Herberts business for several years and feels it is an ‘exceptional’ fit in terms of complementary … Read more

SAP Carbon Impact

My notes on a presentation about this product: SAAS It’s not integrated in the SAP World. You can import/export using csv. Standard implementation project is about 3 months. CO2 price is part of your cost Actions/Menus: Assess, analyse, act, set-up Very straight forward and easy to use Metrics tons calculated in different units (CO2, CH4, … Read more

Measuring speed & altitude

Yesterday, after a week off I went to spend some time running, just 8 kms, short distance and slow speed. I used the sportypal and this was the variance between altitude & speed. just to my remember,

Sportypal, installation

I have down loaded sportypal for the blackberry Curve 8900. It’s weird that the file you down load from the web is a .COD file, if the file I need is the .ALX I have found it in another web, I don’t have time to install the blackberry developer environment just to convert the .COD … Read more

Seveso II Directive

For my learning, some reads on Council Directive Seveso II on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances. The initiative borned as consequence of the disaster happened in Seveso (Italy). We are working on a document management solution for covering some reports requested by this directive.

Aspen InfoPlus.21®

For my personal learning from Aspen InfoPlus.21 It’s an information management system for real-time manufacturing processes. Basically you buy an empty box. On top you can purchase additional applications, for instance: Batch.21 to track batches. AspenCalc to create specific calculations without programming. Aspen CIM-IO for interfaces to plant measurements. Aspen SQLplus, it’s a real-time applications … Read more

Control-M (batch scheduling)

For my personal learning (from Wikipedia) Control-M is workload automation (traditionally called batch scheduling) software produced by BMC Software, originally written for mainframes but also available for distributed computing platforms including Unix, Windows, Linux and OpenVMS environments. BMC Software claims that Control-M is the most widely used scheduling software in large enterprises. It has many … Read more