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Digital transformations require honest communication, admission of mistakes

Having honest and direct communication about what is and isn’t working is the difference between success and failure.




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A new platform brings new opportunities

Any fundamental shift in how you produce your product is a scary thing, and it requires buy-in and cooperation across multiple departments to ensure it’s done properly.




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Sherwin-Williams High-Performance Flooring Decorative Epoxy Coatings for Moderate to High-Use Areas

Sherwin-Williams High-Performance Flooring seamless flooring systems offers up durable, chemical resistant systems that cover a range of commercial applications, ranging from moderate to heavy use.




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Mohawk's SolidTech R Recycles Single-Use Plastic into High-Performance Resilient Flooring

SolidTech R is engineered with a unique stone recycled core, replacing all PVC with 100% recycled single-use plastic. Each square foot of SolidTech R contains the equivalent of 20 recycled water bottles. Additionally, every purchase of SolidTech R goes toward stopping ocean plastic in collaboration with Plastic Bank.




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Performance Accessories TreadBond Adhesive

Performance Accessories Treadbond is a fast-curing, 100%-solids, moisture-curing adhesive designed for installing wood, HDF, and vinyl stair treads, as well as vinyl and HDF stair noses.




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Performance Accessories - PerimeterSeal® Tape

PerimeterSeal® Tape seals the perimeter of any room, safeguarding both the flooring’s surface at the perimeter and the subfloor against spills and moisture damage.





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Sherwin-Williams High-Performance Flooring for Heavy-Use Commercial Applications

Sherwin-Williams High-Performance Flooring seamless flooring systems offer durable, chemical-resistant systems for commercial applications with moderate to heavy use. 




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Water Stewardship as a Path to Better Performance and Sustainability

Food and beverage processors have a significant responsibility to lead the way in water stewardship as challenges caused by water scarcity grow.




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Mohawk Performance Accessories Expands Stair Tread Program

In 2023, Performance Accessories further expands this promise by enhancing its stair tread program and emphasizing its waterproof accessories.  




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Versatrim Celebrates 25 Years, Announces Shopping Platform

The company announced plans to launch an e-commerce platform in the second quarter of 2023. The new site will highlight Versatrim's high-end product offering and will offer improved functionality to streamline the online order-entry process.  




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Performance Accessories Heads to CFI and FCICA 2023 Convention and Trade Show

Attendees will be able to expand their knowledge, find solutions and connect with others in the flooring community with Performance Accessories from September 20 to September 22, 2023. 




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Performance Accessories Provides New Innovations and Upgraded Digital Experience

Performance Accessories offers a total system of industry-leading flooring solutions — including trims and transitions, stair solutions, adhesives, underlayments and cleaners — designed to complement and complete any flooring installation. 




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GEA Introduces PowerPak 1000 Thermoformer

The PowerPak 1000 has been specially developed as an entry-level machine for the thermoforming segment and offers advanced functions previously reserved for machines in the higher performance range.




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The protein system transformation

It’s no surprise that alternative meat products are popping up everywhere these days. In fact, they have grown so much that Ernst & Young data predicts alternative meat could see 40% market share by volume by 2040 in the United States.




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Dot Foods acquires Morsum, an AI/ML food platform technology company

Dot Foods, Inc., said to be North America’s largest food industry redistributor, has acquired Morsum, a food industry data and AI platform technology company.




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Digital transformation relies on smart sensor data and human inputs

Without sensor data, you can’t control a process—much less begin a digital transformation at your facility. KPIs (Key performance indicators) are a way to measure how your process, packaging or even your palletizing areas are performing, but to get these KPIs requires sensor data.




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CFI’s WearCoat 440FS Epoxy Floor Coating Formulated to Resist Amine Blush

A common issue with cool-temperature floor coating jobs, amine blush is an oily surface imperfection caused by moisture or dew settling on uncured epoxy. 




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Mohawk Adds Stair Tread Program to Performance Accessories Products

In 2022, Mohawk's Performance Accessories further expands its portfolio by launching a stair tread program to help retailers reach previously untapped markets and emphasizing its waterproof accessories.




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Evigence Introduces Freshness Management Platform with FreshSense Sensors

Evigence offers food companies and cold-chain leaders data-driven freshness insights at the case or unit level needed to boost end-to-end supply chain efficiency, guarantee food quality, reduce food loss and manage compliance.




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Make Maintenance Part of Your Digital Transformation Strategy

Even though new processing and packaging equipment today has maintenance tools built in, proper planning and integration into an enterprise maintenance management system makes repair activities easier to track and helps prevent a stockroom full of expensive parts that are never needed.




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AI-based Vision Inspection Systems Make More Informed Decisions

AI looks to be a panacea for making better inspection choices, but knowing specifically what the inspection criteria should be needs to be in place before employing an AI-based system.




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New Asset Management Platforms and Remote Service Tools Move Food Companies Closer to AI Strategies

New remote service tools and robust asset management platforms enable food and beverage companies to envision AI-based strategies and facilitate product innovation across the enterprise.




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Florim Stone Large-Format Tile Honored with Green Good Design Award for Sustainable Design

Florim has achieved another significant milestone, with its brand Florim stone receiving the prestigious international Green Good Design Awards 2024. 




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Raimondi Bridge Wet Saws Capable of Cutting Large Format Tiles Up to 330 cm

The Raimondi LAB330 and LAB270 bridge wet saws are capable of cutting large format tiles up to 330 cm (10.8’).




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Three New Large-Format Porcelain Tile Collections from Nemo Tile + Stone

Bryce, Blake, and Madison are Nemo Tile + Stone's new large-format porcelain tile collections. 




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Interface Textured Carpet Tile Offerings Add Style and Performance to Commercial Spaces

The new flooring solutions pair on-trend designs with functionality at a smart price point.




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Case Study: A Cozy, Hospitality-Inspired Office Transformation

BNP Media, the parent company of Floor Trends & Installation, moved to a 5,000-square-foot office in downtown Birmingham, Michigan, embracing a hybrid work model. The remodeled space features wood-look LVT by Shaw Contract and textural carpet by Interface for a hospitality-inspired feel. 




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Evaluation and selection of the quality of internal doors for buildings using building information modeling building information modeling (BIM)

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What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth.

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Anchors and thresholds in the formation of a transnational sense of belonging of migrant children in Poland.

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Negative performance feedback from algorithms or humans? effect of medical researchers’ algorithm aversion on scientific misconduct

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System Performance Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

About the role

Arm is looking for a remarkable system performance modeling and analysis architect to join the

Worldwide system IP Performance team. You will work closely with IP and systems teams across Arm to help define high-performance systems incorporating current and next generation Arm Processors, scalable coherent interconnects, and high-bandwidth memory controllers. This is an unusual opportunity to work through the brilliance of our Arm team members.

 What will you be accountable for? 

  • Modeling, analysis, and workload projections: You will identify new performance features and system performance bottlenecks using performance and RTL models starting from product definition phase through release.
  • You will generate and correlate projections and scaling factors for appropriate workloads for partners to help both external and internal customers identify optimal design points of a system. 
  • Partner engagement and mentorship: You will engage with internal and external partners through all stages of the product in establishing high confidence in Arm IP and system level performance. You will collaborate closely with other teams at Arm including mentoring and encouraging junior engineers to deliver performance collateral through analysis for evolving new usages and workloads.
  • System model configurations. You will build and maintain consistent system model configurations for use by our partners that deliver the best performance. 




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Staff Performance Analysis Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Are you highly inquisitive with a committed approach to improving performance? Do you want to make an impact on the future of Smartphone and Laptop computing?
We are looking for experienced engineers with a strong understanding of computer architecture and performance analysis to investigate emerging use-cases such as AR and ML to help define future IP from Arm and our partners.

About the role

As a senior member of the engineering team within the Client Line of Business you will lead performance analysis investigations, producing data-led analysis and conclusions which help define requirements for future Client compute solutions.
Client computing devices are expected to deliver incredible performance across an increasing range of diverse use cases including AAA quality gaming, compelling AR experiences and applications with deeply embedded AI and ML.
You will use your knowledge of hardware and software to build a deep understanding of critical use cases. You will look at how workloads utilise available compute and memory resources, how advancements in SoC topologies, processor design and software will help improve user experience.




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Software Engineer - Debug and Performance Analysis Tools, Experienced Professionals, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

We are looking for an enthusiastic software developer with understanding of Java or modern C++, to join the Arm Mobile Studio team.

The role involves collaborating with highly motivated developers from different backgrounds, and customers throughout the world, to craft the next generation of our performance analysis tools for Arm CPUs and Mali GPUs. As part of this team, you would help create new features, maintain existing ones, and support the engineering infrastructure for build, test, and continuous integration. We also help to support both internal and external customers, and contribute to our developer documentation, developer website, and community forums.

We are growing the team to help deliver features that support the full breadth of Arm's product portfolio. Our tools are used to optimize the latest smart cars, drones, mobile games, and machine learning applications, your ideas will make a difference and help to bring world-beating products to market.




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Senior CPU Performance Workloads Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

We have exciting opportunities in the CPU group, where you will be part of a highly motivated team that helps define new generations of mainstream processors.

You will have real responsibilities from day one, and you will get support and mentorship from specialists that will help you succeed and develop your career. Through teamwork, training, and dedication to personal development, we strive to help everyone mature into a specialist in the field.

You will work in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment and will have the opportunity to work on different projects.

What will you be accountable for?

  • You will contribute to the definition of the next generation of Arm’s IP products by enabling analysis of new applications and benchmarks, and by proposing new insights on methodologies that push the state of the art in workload analysis, characterization and capture.
  • Together with marketing, technical leads, and partners we will align on applications that will represent market requirements for future products.
  • You will propose, develop and maintain innovative ways of making relevant workloads suitable for sophisticated simulation and emulation platforms, targeting the latest architectural features.
You will help maintain and extend existing methodologies and tools, and develop new tools/infrastructure




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Graduate Platforms Hardware Engineer, Graduates, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

About the role

We are looking for enthusiastic Graduate Electronics or Embedded System Engineer to join Arm’s Hardware Platform team, who are working at the forefront of embedded design based around Arm IP products. We are responsible for

  • Designing and releasing the latest Arm IP technologies in FPGA image, enabling pre-silicon software and ecosystem development, reducing time to market.
  • Creating physical hardware development platforms, based around Arm’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.

If you’re interested in:

  • The potential to work on all aspects of product development, from specification to customer release.
  • Eager to learn, a willingness to work across disciplines.
  • The challenges of bringing up a new development board.
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Creating and validating Verilog RTL design in FPGA.

  • Gaining a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance.
  • Working alongside many other teams including system architects, CPU / System IP designers, physical chip layout / packaging engineers.
  • Interaction with Arm’s partners and customers both through the support organisation and directly.

Then we have a role for you!

What will I be accountable for?

As a Graduate, you will be placed in a development team at Arm’s offices in Cambridge, UK where you will have a mentor, and be able to get to grips with the problems ranging across many hardware and software areas.  You will be working across all aspects of the product lifecycle whilst being supported by and learning from the rest of the team.