ASR develops machine to load containers.Advanced Steel Recovery (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ), a Fontana Fontana, city (1990 pop. 87,535), San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1952. Fabricated metal products, construction materials, and transportation equipment are manufactured, and there is a small steel mill. , Calif.-based scrap recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. company, has been looking at ways to increase the amount of ferrous ferrous (fĕr`əs), iron in the +2 valence state. Containing or having to do with iron. The difference between ferrous and ferric is the number of valence electrons they contain (ferrous contains two and ferric contains three), which scrap exported via containers. Nathan Nathan (nā`thən), in the Bible. 1 Court prophet in the time of David and Solomon. He announced the oracle to David concerning his dynasty. He confronted David over David's adultery with Bath-sheba and over her husband's murder. Frankel, president of ASR, has been developing a piece of equipment that, if successful, could allow for a significant increase in the amount of ferrous scrap to be shipped overseas via container. Despite a recent trend to ship ferrous metal by container, the overwhelming amount of ferrous scrap shipped is loaded via breakbulk. There are a number of impediments IMPEDIMENTS, contracts. Legal objections to the making of a contract. Impediments which relate to the person are those of minority, want of reason, coverture, and the like; they are sometimes called disabilities. Vide Incapacity. 2. to loading ferrous scrap in a container, including the length of time it takes to, as well as the damage to containers caused by the traditional method of loading containers. The container loading machinery, Frankel says, has been in the development stage for about 20 months. With the FASTek (Frankel Advanced Shipping Technologies), he says that companies using the system can cut down the time it takes to load the containers to less than 15 minutes. In fact, Frankel, who has been using the machine to run some trial shipments to China, says that using the equipment would enable a company to load a container and ship it to a port before a truck could leave the yard because the container would not have to be weighed more than once. And, with an integrated weighing system, each load would come extremely close to the proper weight. The company presently has applied for a patent for the FASTek. Frankel hopes that approval will come by this fall. The company also is working with manufacturers on potential joint venture arrangements. Other advantages to using the FASTek system will allow smaller companies to use the system as opposed to relying on the largest exporters to take in the loose material. |
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