In the current global economy, companies continuously search to improve efficiency, reduce overhead, and maintain positive financial growth. This search has led companies to look beyond their traditional market horizons for expansion opportunities. For many companies this includes establishing a strategic foothold in the international markets. Along with the challenges presented by ordinary program expansion are the security concerns posed by access to foreign markets and network as well as cultural and societal indoctrination. The purpose of this study then is to research, identify, and propose methodologies for enhancing security, improving infrastructure and securing intellectual assets domestically and internationally. Modine’s …show more content…
In 1912, A.B. Modine moved to Racine, Wisconsin, and became a principal partner in Perfex Radiator (a predecessor to a company Modine Manufacturing would later acquire), where Modine was actively involved in research, testing, and design of radiators. Following a business disagreement with a silent partner at Perfex over how that company should be managed and capitalized, Modine decided to establish his own company. A.B. Modine founded Modine Manufacturing in 1916 to make radiators for farm tractors. He became president and treasurer of the company, which opened a one-room office adjacent to a small workshop in Racine. Soon after opening his office, Modine developed the company’s first major product—the Spirex farm tractor radiator—a radiator core with a spiral fin put in the radiator cells which helped with the product’s heat transferability. Modine developed his business on innovation, a concept which is still held and encouraged today at all levels. He started as small operation in Racine, Wisconsin and has spread globally to be a leader in research, development and production of heat transfer technology. Their first invention was the Spirex tractor radiator, using their developed innovative technology they were able to dissipate heat from coolant by allowing air to pass through the device. This inturned
He took what was refrigerated transportation, and completely innovated it. Refrigerated trucking reduced lots of meat spoilage over the distance the meat traveled, and overall saved meat companies lots of money. Gustavus Swift, who went to Chicago to ship cattle, developed a way to send fresh-chilled beef in ice-cooled railroad cars all the way to the East Coast. Swift commissioned this innovation under engineer Andrew Chase, and together they produced over 200 refrigerated rail cars.
The inventor, Richard Drew, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. After dropping out of college, he miraculously obtained a job, working for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company or more commonly known as 3M. Drew was hired to take trial products to auto shops around the city. A prevalent problem that auto shop workers faced when
Shortly after graduating from Cornell, Carrier got hired at Buffalo Forge Company as an engineer. Carrier was first assigned a position where he was in charge of designing systems for the heating plant to dry supplies. It was there he designed a system to dry coffee, as well as a kiln responsible for drying lumber. Here, Carrier defeated his long battle with math, and developed what has been accredited as his “first contribution to climate-control technology.” Carrier had developed a chart which calculated the amount of surface area required to heat a given space. With this discovery, Carrier not only saved his company roughly $40,000 but he was promoted to the top of the engineering department. It was not long after this that his focus switched from systems which dried materials, to systems which controlled both humidity and temperature for functional purposes. The blueprint for what has been considered the world’s first air conditioning unit was dated July 17th, 1902, by Willis Carrier, and it was then the world changed forever. Carrier had been assigned to design a solution for a printing company out of Brooklyn, New York, known as the Sackett & Wilhelm’s Lithography & Printing Company. They had come to Carrier because their current system became somewhat defective due to environmental conditions. When it was hot, the ink seemed to run, when it was humid, the paper seemed to swell, and it was meddling with their production. The
had many generators to run refrigerator, air conditioning and heating. At one point they had an
John Deere was just a blacksmith back in 1837, he had his own shop in Grand Detour, Illinois. John Deere built the first polished steel plow back in 1837, for pioneer farmers to plow their soil and turn it over. These plows became a huge hit, by 1839 he built ten of them. Building them skyrocketed from there, by 1842 he was building more than 100 each year. John Deere was making a huge name for himself and pretty soon all over people were getting ahold of him wanting his business. These plows that John Deere were making were making farming more sufficient in productivity and changing the face of agriculture forever.
He constructed Ford Motor Company with John S. Gray. They sold its first car, a two-cylinder Model A in the United States. Ford used his methods for large scale manufacturing cars by moving assembling lines. The conveyer belt brought the invention not only for cars, but also brought the large scale manufacturing other technologies, clothes, and food. Willis Carrier invented the first air conditioner and sold in the United States. His invention spread to whole world which is must have item in summer for today a lot of people. Air conditioner was used in variety ways like factories, stores, and warehouses. In addition, the first diesel-powered ships are launched, both France and Russia for inland waters. Those inventions of technology have announced the beginning of another new world of convenience, and
The organization produced automobiles for the United States. they were a major innovators in the car industry they created many cars and trucks and off-road machines. In 1914 they produced the 4 cylinder dodge model thirty. The brothers died in 1920 and the company sold to Chrysler. The brothers legacy still lasts to this day and it looks like there is no end in sight. The company continued to grow and even singed contracts with the military.
Lead by Dr. Ray Ringer the researchers in an effort to reproduce natural conditions for their experiment they were spraying water into the air just before the engine intake in a wind tunnel. The researchers did not create rime ice like they expected, but they did make snow. They had to regularly shut down the experiment and the wind tunnel to shovel out the snow Uninterested in inventing a snowmaking machine, no patents were filed by the laboratory researchers. The research published in scientific journals, was made prior to any other claim to snowmaking technology (Making Snow). However the true deliberate invention of snow making occurred in 1950 by three men whom owned a ski manufacturing business. The three men, Wayne pierce, Art Hunt, and Dave Richey, had a hard year due to a dry winter. From the affect of this they decided that they could make snow and solve their dependency on nature. At first they used a paint spray compressor, a nozzle, and a garden hose they created a snow machine. The men ended up ricking a basic process patent in April 1954. They installed a few of their machines but then sold out to a company of the Emhart Corporation. Then more companies saw the potential of snow making and tried to create more snow machines in many different ways. In 1958, a man named Alden Hanson filed for a patent for a new type of snow making machine. Hanson had created the fan snow maker. He was granted the patent in 1961, he is considered the pioneer patent for all fan snowmaking machines. He had also created a ski boot and also worked with Lange ski boot to create the Flofit. the bone Snowmaker was filed a patent in 1978, ducted fan which isolated, and in 1978 another patent for Bill Riskey and Jim Vanderkelen, of a snow machine surrounded by a water jacket. Then jim Vanderkelen received five additional patents for a snowmaker called the
engine was first created by a man named James Watt through his new knowledge on how
Born the son of Dr. Hiram Corliss in Easton, NY, George grew to find world wide fame for his contributions to the design and construction of the steam engine. In 1847, he established Corliss, Nightingale & Co. By this time, he had already perfected his famous automatic drop cut-off invention. The first 2 engines featuring his device were completed in 1848 and proved highly successful. He was granted a patent in 1849. Corliss went on to devise many improvements to his engines, all of which were patented. In 1856, he moved to a new factory and continued production at a greatly expanded scale under the name of The Corliss Engine Co. Corliss received numerous awards for his
The company can trace its history to the Minneapolis Milling Company, an organization founded in 1856 by Illinois Congressman Robert Smith which leased power rights to mills operating along Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River. Cadwallader C. Washburn acquired the company shortly after its founding and hired his brother, William D. Washburn to assist in the company's development. In 1866, the Washburns got into the business themselves, building the Washburn "B" Mill at the falls. At the time, the building was considered to be so large and output so vast that it could not possibly sustain itself. However, the company succeeded, and in 1874 he built the even bigger Washburn "A" Mill.
Based on this theory of cryogenic hardening, the commercial cryogenic processing industry was founded in 1966 by Ed Busch. With a background in the heat treating industry, Busch founded a company in Detroit called CryoTech in 1966. Though CryoTech later merged with 300 Below to create the largest and oldest commercial cryogenics company in the world, they originally experimented with the possibility of increasing the life of metal tools to anywhere between 200%-400% of the original life expectancy using cryogenic tempering instead of heat treating. This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts (that did more than just increase the life of a product) such as amplifier valves (improved sound quality), baseball bats (greater sweet spot), golf clubs (greater sweet spot), racing engines (greater performance under stress), firearms (less warping after continuous shooting), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose. The theory was based on how heat-treating metal works (the temperatures are lowered to room temperature from a high degree causing certain strength increases in the molecular structure to occur) and supposed that continuing the descent would allow for further strength increases. Using liquid nitrogen, CryoTech formulated the first early version of the cryogenic processor. Unfortunately for the newly born industry, the results were unstable, as components sometimes experienced thermal shock when they
But conventional security measures in present times have many weaknesses that need to be taken into consideration. These include unknown threats, unknown actors and attackers, limited efficiency, focused on assessing the threats while ignoring the need to cover the vulnerabilities. In order to achieve conventional security there is an absolute need to develop new instruments to counter the threats and to improve the old ones. Conventional security could be achieved by adapting the old and including the new. In our times, the threats need to be assessed on a regular basis as well as the measures to counter them. The evolution of technology, the communication as well as the weapons used, led to the need of novelty in action. If the alliance wants to win in the fight against these threats must always improve measures, must cooperate with other intelligence organizations, invest in law enforcement capabilities, security, access to ports and airfields, arms control, develop capabilities to prepare and respond or engaging cooperation between allies and other international
The world offers significant business opportunities for every company, however, opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges for managers. Managing global operations across diverse cultures and markets represents a big challenge and opportunity for companies. To compete in the global market and be successful, companies must learn the strategies, policies, norms and technology necessary to conduct international business. The opportunities for global expansion are numerous, and attaining success is a matter of developing the right strategy to win local markets and its consumers.
Companies can decide to go global or to enter international markets for various reasons, and these different objectives at the time of entry that enable the business to produce different strategies and the performance goals, and even forms of market participation.