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April 15, 2014

Technical features and advantages of a Rotary engine

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , — Ralph C Dreher @ 9:36 AM

A Rotary engine has a radial configuration and the cylinders are arranged around the crankshaft. In a radial engine, the pistons are connected to the crankshaft with a master-and-articulating-rod assembly. One piston attaches with the crankshaft using a master rod. The remaining pistons attach themselves to rings around the edge of the master rod. The number of the cylinders is always odd, to maintain uniformity in firing order which is important for smoothness.

Advantages
In rotary engines, smoothness is achieved easily than in other engines. Since rotary engines are air-cooled, they are less heavy and thus can be used in battle vehicles. A rotary engine has a comparatively shorter crankshaft, which means less vibration and thus higher durability.

Disadvantages
Since the engine is air cooled, cooling isn’t achieved perfectly. Since all the cylinders are exposed to airflow, it results in drag. Due to it’s bulk size, it also makes difficult pilot looking outside. They also cost a lot to maintain which is undesirable.

Usage
The usage of Rotary engines were limited until the World War II, when it was used in air crafts and tanks. The main reason behind its usage in tanks was that it had a good weight-power ratio and was considered better than the inline engines at the time.

Types
1) Multi-row rotary engine: As the size and requirements of the engine increased, it became necessary to increase the number of rows of the engine. The rows of cylinders are placed next to each other on different planes. However, they are joined to the same stationary crankshaft.

2) Diesel engine: Most rotary engines are built as gasoline engines. Diesel engines were made in 1920s and 1930s due to two advantages. Diesel engines consume less amount of fuel and they have a reduced fire risk.

3) Compressed-air engine: In compressed air rotary engines, air is used in the cylinders instead of fuel. It’s used mostly in model airplanes and gas compressors.

4) The Wankel engine: An engine that works with a similar principle as that of a rotary engine is the Wankel engine. It was developed by Felix Wankel in 1957. Like a piston engine, the Wankel engine also uses the pressure from combustion.

In a rotary engine, the pressure of combustion is held in the space created by a housing and a triangular rotor fixed inside it. Fuel is pumped into one of these chambers and is moved towards the ignition location. It also gets compressed because the housing surrounding it gets narrower. When it gets ignited, the rotor is pushed with force and the next chamber automatically draws in fuel towards compression and ignition. A Wankel engine has the advantage of fewer moving parts but the parts are expensive if they are to be replaced with.
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April 8, 2014

Importance of Writing Content Relevant to Your Business

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Winson @ 2:19 AM

We have all heard this about hundred or thousand times that ‘Content is King’, but do we really look into the depth of the phrase and figure out why it is called so? Well, then let me explain the importance of having relevant content in your website and how it helps your business attract more customers.

What relevant content is all about?
Relevant content talks about your business alone. For example, if you own a website for a business that sells drug testing kits, you should add content- articles or blog posts that talk about benefits of staying away from drugs, harmful effects of teen drug abuse, use of drug test trips help determine the level of drugs and the like. Avoid writing content that is not related to your business. Thus, do not publish content on your favorite car in the example just quoted.

Make sure that content is focused because search engines appreciate content that is relevant and have a common theme throughout. So, you have to make sure that the content you write is informative, helpful, engaging, relevant and useful to your visitors.

In this article, we will talk about the importance of relevant content and why you should write content that is related to your business and how it will benefit your site and your business.

Search engines emphasize relevant content
Visitors come with an intent to get information related to matters of their interest. Content that is focused on giving relevant content makes visitors and engaging. This is likely to to improve search engines’ impression on your website and improves traffic.

Helps to target niche market
Your business is related to a niche. Relevant content is important to convince your audiences on the product/service. Your targeted audiences are interested in knowing better on your product/service. Therefore, publishing regularly such content will make it easy for you target customers.

Helps with decision process
Having relevant content in your website that talks about your business and the benefits of your products/services is important because, people research before buying. In this context, if your content is specific, informative and useful, it helps visitors decide why they should consider buying your products/services instead of buying it from your competitors.

Shows your expertise in the subject
Writing articles or blogs on your specific industry/business niche is likely to establish yourself as an expert. When you answer the questions asked by your customers, in the online queries, etc. you are building trust and gaining credibility from your customers.

Visitors stay on your website
Relevant content fulfills the needs of visitors and is worth their time spending. Therefore, they keep on coming to your website and stay there engaged. This is likely lead to conversion.

Content is more important than any other aspect of a website when it comes user experience. Relevant content is beneficial to businesses as it is effective in promoting themselves as well as other groups such as audiences, visitors, users and customers.
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February 17, 2014

All you Need to Know about E-Mail Marketing for Small Businesses

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 5:18 AM

E-mail marketing is considered as an effective Internet marketing strategy for small businesses. It acts as a tool to deliver commercial messages to your potential customers on your products/services. The purpose of e-mail marketing is to build brand awareness and customer loyalty. Small businesses can make the most out of e-mail marketing, by knowing the its benefits.

Benefits of e-mail marketing for small businesses:

  • Reduces Cost, Time and Effort: E-mail marketing takes less time, effort and money when compared to offline direct marketing. In offline marketing the procedure is time consuming as you need to create the design, get it printed and then send it to your customer in an envelope. Whereas in e-mail marketing by using available e-mail templates you can send e-mails to a number of your customers in a matter of seconds.
  • Real Time Results: In e-mail marketing you get to know who opened your e-mail, has the receiver clicked on the link or your e-mail was forwarded to someone else. It gives you real time results and lets you know the behavioral data of your customers.
  • Easy to Track: Another benefit of e-mail marketing is it helps you figure out where you are going wrong. You can track on how many people have opened your e-mail, how many clicked on the link in the e-mail, did your e-mail bounce, etc. By keeping a track on these things you can identify customer engagement and the response you are getting through your e-mails.
  • Global Reach: Through e-mail marketing, you can reach thousands of global customers by a single click. You can send e-mails to a larger group of audiences who are located at different places and locations at the same time. The news related to your business, your products and your services reaches to global audiences within no time.
  • Easy to Create: E-mail marketing does not require much effort and resources to carry out the campaign. You don’t require many employees to do the work. With the use of fancy templates, images, videos and logos you can create a successful e-mail campaign.
  • Test Marketing Messages: You can use e-mail marketing as a medium for test marketing messages. By this, you will be able to understand, to what your customers will respond and accordingly you can plan and execute it in an effective way.

It’s time for small businesses to take e-mail marketing platform more seriously and start the campaign to stay connected with their potential customers. A good email marketing strategy will help your small business grow and succeed.
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April 20, 2011

Know About Benefits of Hospital Management Software

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 6:27 AM

With the growing competition in every industry, all the companies in the industry are making efforts to be ahead of the competition. To do this the companies must offer wide range of products and services to the customers and continuously develop the products to satisfy the customers. Organizations needs customized software solutions as they are cost effective and deliver quick results. This situation is also applicable to the hospital industry and hospitals also make use of customized software products to improve the quality of the service and excel in hospital management. These are called as the hospital management software. This software help the hospital personnel to take good care of day to day services and offer the patients a harass free customer service.

Hospital management software offers following benefits for the hospitals:

  • Hospital management system helps the hospital management to serve fast and this results in less number of staff serving more number of patients.
  • It also helps to computerize the process of gathering, assembling, and retrieving patient information and thus helps to improve the reply time to the demands of patient care.
  • Hospital management software helps in simplifying the accounting process by eliminating the complexity.
  • It also helps in faster administrative, handling of patients and their clinical assessment.
  • It helps the doctors to access the medical records of the particular patients easily and also reduces the waiting time for patients.
  • It helps the hospital staff in billing all types of patients like Outpatient, Inpatient, and Referral and also gives automatic redeployment of charges for services like food, bed, beverages, telephone, lab test and medicine issued etc.

There are large number of companies in the market who are providing the hospital management software having different features and it is the duty of the hospital management to select the hospital management software with best features which fulfills the needs of the hospital.
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