Process Sensors Corporation

Process Sensors Corporation (PSC) is a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art moisture gauges and sensors, providing the most accurate and reliable moisture measurement available for quality control in manufacturing processes, for industries worldwide.

Process Sensors Corporation was founded in 1996. Steady growth has allowed PSC to become the #1 manufacturer in the world of continuous NIR Moisture Transmitters for use on solid materials.

PSC Transmitters are used routinely in various industries including:

1. food (cereals, crackers, cookies, coffee, sugar, milk powders),
2. snack foods (potato chips, corn chips, tacos)
3. paper converting (labels, films, office forms, fax paper),
4. chemical powders (PVC),
5. tobacco processing (cigarette manufacturing, leaf processing),
6. panel board (MDF, Particleboard, OSB),
7. minerals (iron ore, bauxite, coal)
8. and many, many other applications.

Their factory is located in Milford, Massachusetts with direct offices throughout the United States.

PSC also has service and support facilities in the United Kingdom, Poland and Malaysia.

I allow myself some additional time to have a look at some of the application areas where PSC sensors are used:

• Animal Food Products
• Chemicals
• Human Food Products
• Minerals
• Paper/Converting
• Snack Food
• Tobacco Products
• Wood Products
• Textiles
• Renewable Energy

How Twitter won the social media battle for journalism | The Wall Blog

How Twitter won the social media battle for journalism | The Wall Blog

Eye witness reports don’t need to be picked up by reporters. Instead, anyone can see something and tweet it, as Sohaib Athar, the café owner and IT consultant, who tweeted about helicopters overhead as US Navy Seals launched their raid to kill the Al Qaeda chief.

Twitter isn't very strong in Finland yet. The majority of the social media scene takes place on Facebook. But i guess this will change.

I've been thinking about ways to improve newsreporting in narrow fields like bioenergy, biotechnology, mechanical wood processing, and emerging bioeconomy fields.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Portugal, a country with a rich history of seafaring and discovery, looks out from the Iberian Peninsula onto the Atlantic Ocean.

Portugal's history has had a lasting impact on the culture of the country: Moorish and Oriental influences in architecture and the arts are prominent.

Over the past 3 000 years, Portugal has witnessed a constant ebb and flow of civilisations.

Phoenician, Greek, Celt, Carthaginian, Roman and Arabic cultures have all left their imprint. In the 15th century, Portugal’s intrepid maritime explorers led by Vasco da Gama discovered new territories, leading to the accumulation of an overseas empire. At home, the university of Coimbra, established in 1290, is one of the oldest in Europe.

The President, elected for a five-year term by universal suffrage, has limited powers. The parliament has 230 members, whose mandate is for four years.

Portugal has always been well represented in the arts. Famous poets include Luís de Camões and Fernando Pessoa. No less creative are the talents of international footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.

During the month of June, festivities dedicated to three saints known as Santos Populares (popular saints) take place all over Portugal. They are characterised by folk dance and music, particularly the traditional melancholy fado .

Each region of Portugal has its traditional dishes made with various kinds of meat and seafood. In particular, the country is particularly well known for its one hundred ways of cooking cod.

Listening

Are Businesses Invading Consumer Privacy By Listening to Social Media Conversations? - Brian Solis

Scobleizer Interview

Nick Tomaino (@NTmoney) twiittasi 3:00 IP on pe, helmikuuta 22, 2013: Best @Scobleizer interview I've seen...and theres been a lot of great ones http://t.co/93rTm5K2mp  (https://twitter.com/NTmoney/status/304938734984499200) 

Hanki virallinen Twitter-sovellus osoitteesta https://twitter.com/download

Ademe in France

http://www.infoenergie.org/

Wood mCHP - France

Wood mCHP, a long way from labs to mass market · Arnaud Desrentes :: Exoes from AVEBIOM on Vimeo.

Wood mCHP, a long way from labs to mass market · Arnaud Desrentes - Exoes

from AVEBIOM 11 months ago

Technical Seminar on Biomass for H&C of the RHC-ETP.

rhc-platform.org
Organized by AEBIOM and AVEBIOM within
6 th International Bioenergy Congress . Valladolid, 18 October 2011.

Presentation by Arnaud Desrentes :: Exoes, France
7th International Bioenergy Congress: 23 to 25 October 2012
congresobioenergia.org/en/

The sawmill in Urmatt

PICTURE: Sawmill in Urmatt, Alsace, France (2013)

The reconstruction continues. The SIAT SA Sawmill in Urmatt, Alsace, France. We did spend several years in this area. More precisely at the UPM Braun operation in Niederhaslach.

My intention is to find more information about SIAT Braun. The Braun operation is located in Niederhashlach.

De la petite scierie familiale fondée en 1818 par Florent SIAT à Oberhaslach, à celle, berceau de l’entreprise actuelle, définitivement installée sur les bords de la Bruche à la fin du 19ème siècle, il n’y a qu’un pas, mais un pas de géant !

Les générations familiales successives qui ont fait évoluer SIAT BRAUN depuis pratiquement 200 ans, ont permis à l’entreprise de devenir aujourd’hui un des leaders européens du sciage résineux. 

Contribuant fortement au développement de la Filière Bois en Alsace, la société est implantée au cœur d’un massif forestier d’exception lui permettant de proposer à l’ensemble de sa clientèle des produits d’excellente qualité.

Capitalisant sur des hommes et des femmes d’expérience et sur un savoir-faire reconnu, SIAT BRAUN s’est doté en 2005 et en 2011-2012 de nouveaux outils de production à la pointe de la technologie se donnant ainsi les moyens de relever le défi du 3ème millénaire avec confiance et enthousiasme !

CARREFOUR DU BOIS 2012

C'est avec plaisir que nous vous accueillerons sur notre stand à l'occasion du Carrefour International du Bois de Nantes du 6 au 8 juin 2012.

Siat Braun: 46 rue du Général de Gaulle - 67280 URMATT, Alsace, France.

BRAUN: 69B Rue Principale, Niederhaslach, FRANCE

Our first weeks in Ammerschwihr 1989

PICTURE: Google Street View, Ammerschwihr, Alsace, France (2013)

I remember the house and we’re working with Irja to reconstruct the time we used to live in this village. The boys started at the local school. It’s time to recollect and to return to La Route de Vins d’Alsace.

We came to this house before the school started. Neither of us did speak any French. Irja’s German was good. Day by day we learned more. The boys were quick French language learners. We still have a long way to go with Irja ;)

If you stay in Colmar, Turckheim, Kaysersberg, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé or in one of the nearby villages from the Centre-South of Alsace, you will have directly access to the REGION 2: From COLMAR to RIBEAUVILLE.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

PICTURE: Helge V. Keitel, Naapurinvaara, Sotkamo, Finland (22.12.2012)

Returning back home from the Kontiomäki Railway station with Samuli. It was –30 C outside. You can see Vuokatinvaarat in the background. It has been cold outside but the snow covered nature looks so good.

Happy Christmas to all of You!

Pussy Riot goes Public in Loviisa

Minerva Martinoff, my online friend from Southeastern Finland, writes:

Kindly asking if you could spread this amateur Free Pussy Riot support video on your own wall. Only if you feel comfortable with it and willing to help us to drum for freedom of speech. 

Also it's example that you can do a demonstration without vandalism or getting police involved. Big thank You for all of your help. And I do apology if this material is upsetting you any possible way. 

Thank You - Kiitos- Tack from Minerva & Co

Visualizing your change management goals

PICTURE: Helge V. Keitel, Conference (2004)

I didn't actually say those words out loud; I just approached the building and was walking up the stairs to the conference room. 

Five minutes later, I was facing one hundred people or so people sitting in the  community center meeting room. Start speaking about Change Management!

My task was to speak about “Ymmärrystä yrittämiseen” – understanding entrepreneurship.  I was trapped with the idea of change management. Starting a new company was all about doing things in a different  way.

It took me a few minutes to work up my nerve before I finally got to the essentials. Speaking about start-ups, open innovation and change management was more difficult than doing the same things in real life.

Several years later: I’m struggling with the delicate task of moving real-life experiences and public presentations to Internet and Social Media.

I want to do it My Way! And I’m still facing the same challenges as any start-up.

Nokia is still in business

My alarm clock wakes me up at 7 am and I try to analyze the meaning of my dream. Nokia is still in the business of mobile phones but not in computers. The upcoming Apple iPhone 5 launch doesn't gather the same amount of attention as it did 2007. The average pocket computer user is moving towards Androids.  Samsung is Nokia’s biggest challenger!

Nevertheless, Apple is the most valuable company on the earth; the cream of the cream!

While some of the national commentators comfort me and Nokia shareholders by saying that we shouldn't worry about the future of our mobile giant not being number one on the globe: stop worrying, there’re promising start-ups waiting for attention.

They mention Early Birds, Angry Birds, Proomu, Lotja, Ruuhi… and Jolla. Let’s pray for the Meegos!

The analysts also reveal that we should enjoy the reality that Nokia being third in the game is not such a bad thing: there are still users going for the next best thing… and the third choice in the row. Game Over hasn’t been announced yet.

Personally, I'm not disturbed by this. On the contrary, I still feel there's a miniscule possibility for a comeback. Nokia is smaller, probably more flexible, but most people think Microsoft is the wolf that is going to eat the sheep when life gets ruff.

Besides, analysts are also saying, it's not the number of smart phones delivered that counts, it's whether Nokia will ever get to the heart to any of those clients using its technology. 

Let me know, who knows where the market is moving during the next 24 months. I don’t. A lot depends on what the three leaders are doing before Christmas 2012.

Year 2007 in Loviisa – Southern Finland

We were working out of our office in Southern Finland. There was no shortage of blog-topics-to-write-about, but Irja and myself were already thinking about a permanent return to Jatahovi in Sotkamo.

I do have close to 70 000 pictures on my hard-disk inspiring blog topics that will surely eliminate the excuse of not having anything to write about.

There are absolutely blogging ideas worth writing about besides Fitness, Marketing and Celebrity Gossip.

There are thousands of things to write about, but that doesn’t mean all those ideas are pure gold. Some topics will be more popular than others. 

Loviisa was my hometown at that time. There was a lobby working for and against the a third Nuclear Power Plant to Svartholmen in Loviisa.

I was struggling to take a position. Millions of things are against nuclear power stations, but on the other hand, people love to have a smaller energy bill.

To this date, I’m not sure who is right or wrong. Two new nuclear power plants will be built in the coming years if the Olkiluoto III ever gets completed.

Wirby the Global Village 2.0

I’ve promised to myself and fellow citizens that we’re going to continue with the hyperlocal Wiirila Werkossa Wiikoittain.

The “page” has been activated and Heimo Veli Keitel produces local pictures and we’ll be interviewing people.

Pictures, video and podcasts will be published.

The big picture of upcoming content is still open, but time will show.

A lot has changed since 1997, our first attempt to show that small is beautiful.

What have we learned since that time? Life continues, we get older, wiser, have more experience and becoming more social.

Vuokatti today

Vuokatti today
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Vuokatti today. I was spending my afternoon in Vuokatti. I read an old Newsweek magazine while sipping on a cup of coffee. Are we going to have snow here in the coming years as it used to be for a very long time?

Someday, all the fossil fuels that used to be in the ground will be burned. After that, in about an millenium, the earth will dissolve most of the resulting carbon dioxide into the oceans. The oceans have dissolved in them 40 times more carbon than the atmosphere contains, a total of 30 trillion tons, or 30 times the world's coal reserves.

Robert B. Laughlin says, "On the scales of time relevant to itself, the earth doesn't care about any of these governments or their legislations...".


Damaging the earth is, Laughling says, "easier to imagine than it's to accomplish."

Looks like the talk about Global Warming is cooling down and "new truths" about the survival of the earth are surfacing.

Cultures guide to sketchy tourist operation scenario

An old Telefax about a logistical and communications problem related to a Region Centre Tourist “invasion” operation. This FAX was created sixteen years ago. Neural networking ideas about “how to get out from the dark” and dated 28.06.1994.

Sounds very good

Every single day in search for compelling content. Very simple, indeed.


Memories from "on the road" events. Small observations and micro-thoughts.

Adding a strange addition tonight while watching documentary about great music.

Artistic thoughts on my mind. Some of the songs did meet me years ago.

There was three jobs to be done

FAME. It's a huge task, a challenge for all of us. Count on me, I told them.

Let' s step forward and take control. The process of FAME isn't produced in facotries and sweat shops.

I might move towards a more poetic expression. To breath life into small and unvisible things.

Guess where I found this representation of FAME? Certainly it was a low-profile location.

What more could I say about Instant FAME? It never comes without hard work.

Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo

Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo. The un is rising at 8:28 from the south. Promising a beutiful day.

One hour later, the sun is much higher and this is a great outdoors day.

It' s time to get out to showel some snow and to prepare myself for cross-country skiing.

Southern people have arrived to Sotkamo to spend their skiing vacation.

The tempereature is now - 8 C.