BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Mechanization
- see Automation
Wiktionary Definition for: Mechanization
- the use of machinery to replace human or animal labour, especially in agriculture and industry
Additional Resources
- Morris honored for vineyard mechanization
- Dr. Justin Morris of the University of Arkansas received a Distinguished Alumni Award for his research on vineyard mechanization. Morris developed a complete system for vineyard mechanization, now licensed to OXBO International.
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- SINO-FOREIGN CO-EXPERIMENT IN MECHANIZATION OF SUGARCANE
- AsiaInfo Services 08-28-1997 Sino-Foreign Co-experiment in Mechanization of Sugarcane GUANGDONG, August 27, AsiaInfo Services, Inc -- The Guangqian Sugar Development Ltd of Guangdong Province, the US International Agriculture Sales and Marketing Ltd and the British Inchcape Engineering Machinery ...
- Research articles 1997-08-28
- Counterpoint: air-mechanization: an expensive and fragile concept
- FOR ROUGHLY A DECADE the Army has been examining a concept widely referred to as air-mechanization. According to the concept, some portion of future Army forces would be designed specifically for quick transport to a key location on the battlefield ("intra-theater aerial maneuver") using aircraft of roughly C-130 size. In...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Vineyard mechanization—a total systems approach
- It was pointed out at the 2004 Unified Grape and Wine Symposium that winegrape acreage and wine supply are coming into balance. However, it was the general consensus that it may be a while before the economic health of the industry has fully recovered. For the long-term prosperity of the...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Semantic Business Process Management
- Business Process Management BPM is the approach to manage the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's view rather than from a technical perspective. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is still very limited, creating inertia in the necessary evolution and dynamics of business processes, and BPM...
- White papers 2005-07-28
- The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South
- By Donald Holley. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $36.00, ISBN 1-55728-606-X.) The mechanization of cotton production in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta, according to Donald Holley, was part of the "Second Great Emancipation," which "freed the Cotton South from the plantation system and its attendant...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- Warehousing
- Warehouses used to be thought of as places where product is stored. Today's facilities must be streamlined operations designed to whisk product through to the ultimate consumer. Without the appropriate level of mechanization and automation this cannot be cost effectively achieved. Article maintains that the solution must employ a balance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A New Approach For Measuring And Classifying The Technological Change Intensity
- This paper introduces the Scale of Innovation Intensity SIIN based on meta-taxonomy that subsumes other, less comprehensive taxonomies. The SIIN is similar to seismic scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes. The intensity of technological change is measured by an indicator, called Magnitude, based on the impact of technological...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Semantic Business Process Management: Using Semantic Web Services For Business Process Management
- Business Process Management BPM is the approach to manage the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's process view rather than from a technical perspective. The motivation for BPM is that organizations are trying hard to continuously align their actual business processes, as executed by the multiplicity of...
- White papers 2005-05-03
- Industrial Revolution: International Outsourcing In Manufacturing
- Ceramic tableware has undergone massive changes in the past century. These revolutions in ceramics include the mechanization of production, the development of mass markets, and the recent shifts in consumer preferences. Today, another revolution is underway: the global desegregation of corporate value chains for the production, distribution, and marketing of...
- White papers 2006-05-19
- High-tech DC streamlines supply chain
- Wal-Mart's efforts to improve in-stock were advanced last month with the addition of substantial new distribution capacity as facilities in Arcadia, Fla., and Bartlesville, Okla., were brought online. The two distribution centers are Wal-Mart's third and fourth facilities in the United States that feature increased use of mechanization equipment,...
- Research articles 2005-05-09
- What's for dinner? The food industry displays the best and worst of corporate activity.(CORPORATIONS--FOOD)
- Family farmers started to get elbowed out of the food business in the 1950s. Large corporations bought up land and brought efficiency, planning, and mechanization on a grand scale to food production. Corporate agriculture--agribusiness as it's known--increased crop yields and dramatically lowered the price of food....
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Cotton industry establishing endowed chair at Texas A&M
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 1998-TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Cotton industry establishing endowed chair at Texas A&M C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:120698 To stay ahead of changes in the cotton industry in Texas and across the nation, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M...
- Research articles 1998-06-15
- US DOD: Contracts.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 February 1999-US DOD: Contracts C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110299 NAVY McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a ceiling priced $80,000,000 undefinitized-fixed- price incentive-fee contract for...
- Research articles 1999-02-15
- 2002 AEM Trophy winners
- Winners of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers AEM 65th Annual Student Engineering and Mechanization Awards were honored during a special luncheon at the Annual International Meeting. The awards are given annually to recognize outstanding initiative and accomplishment in ASAE student branch activities. The student engineering branches are divided...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- IN MEMORIAM: Frank W. Andrew
- ASAE Fellow Frank W. Andrew, P.E., 90, of Tucson, Ariz., died Sept. 26, 2004. He received bachelor degrees in both agriculture and engineering at the University of Illinois. He has been a member of ASAE for 57 years. Andrew's inventiveness and creativity blossomed in the world of agricultural mechanization, rural...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Council Highlights from Business Meetings in Tampa
- Membership Development Council MDC The MDC was instrumental in getting Society bylaws changed to allow two-year institutions to sponsor student engineering and mechanization branches. Until recently, the ASABE bylaws were written in such a way as to exclude student branch formation outside of a four-year institution. Understanding the importance of...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Letters
- FEATS HAVE TWO SIDES To the Editor: Regarding engineering achievements of the 20th century that had the greatest impact on society, impact can be good or bad. Machines of war had a great impact on the 30 million killed during World War 11. Many were killed in other wars...
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Indian bank extends refinance help for farm mechanization to all states.
- By R R Goswami, The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--AHMEDABAD, India -- The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Nabard has extended its refinance assistance to banks for promoting farm mechanisation to all states, against nine ...
- Research articles 2004-12-08
- Kirkland Lake Gold Reaches its Staffing and Mechanization Goals.
- KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO, Feb 17, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to advise it has reach its targeted staffing needs and required heavy equipment profile to support its production goals and the major exploration program described in news...
- Research articles 2004-02-18
