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An output device that creates the desired image by emitting ink from an array of orifices or nozzles. The array of nozzles shuttles across the page, printing one character at a time, or serially. This category includes the following types of device:
Piezo electric inkjet — Print heads in which ink is ejected by electrically actuating a special crystalline or ceramic component to compress the ink and force it out of the nozzle.
Thermal inkjet — Heat is used to generate vapor bubbles, which are ejected through nozzles that project droplets onto a surface to form text or images. Thermal inkjet’s advantages include small and highly controlled droplets and high system reliability. Thermal inkjet print heads are used in a wide range of serial and line inkjets. Originally developed for desktop printers, thermal inkjet printing has spread to specialty applications, such as direct-mail addressing, wide-format printing and package coding operations.
Industry:Technology
An output device that creates a character image by selectively placing individual dots on the substrate using mechanical force. These include the following:
9 pin — Devices with 9-wire print heads
18 pin — Devices with 18-wire print heads
24 pin — Devices with 24-wire print heads
Industry:Technology
Enterprises need software and development patterns to deal with RFID data and hardware. Currently, the most popular approach is to put in middleware that acts like an integration broker between RFID readers and business applications that need to receive the data.
Industry:Technology
Innovative business models and processes will be the main way that RFID begins to be justified. But enterprises don’t have many applications to manage these processes today. For example, real-time management of inventory in a retail environment is almost unheard of today, and retailers will need entirely new applications to deal with it. Vendors providing these solutions are fragmented, and each solution will probably emerge as a separate market.
Industry:Technology
A master teacher of lean techniques. Similar in experience to a Black Belt or Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma methodology but more focused on facilitation and teaching than on actual practice.
Industry:Technology
Japanese for mentor, used in lean enterprises to describe an accomplished lean practitioner who takes on a kohai.
Industry:Technology
Includes client device support for roaming among base station coverage areas at pedestrian speeds. At a minimum, the client mobile device is transportable to secondary fixed locations with no connection while in transit. The terms “nomadic” and “portable,” in use by the WiMAX Forum, fit into this category. The terms “nomadic,” “portable” and “mobile” often vary in definition when used by vendors. See also fixed wireless and mobile wireless.
Industry:Technology
A type of knowledge representation that uses nodes (representing objects or events) and links (representing relationships between those objects or events).
Industry:Technology
A method of organizing data that reflects the basic meaning of data items and the relationships among them. This organization makes it easier to develop application programs and to maintain the consistency of data when it is updated.
Industry:Technology
Processes for companies to sell their products, including catalogs, transaction processors, payment processors, and supply chain management methods and tools.
Industry:Technology
