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Excessive search times is one of the biggest organizational wastes in a diverse set of work environments including a factory shop and a home environment. Over the years sort and standardization techniques like 5S have been developed to define and enforce organization. These methods have been effective provided all users adhere to these standards.
Supersonic flight over land is currently severely restricted because sonic booms created by shock waves disturb people on the ground and can damage property. Innovators at Armstrong Flight Research Center are working to solve this problem through a variety of innovative techniques that measure, characterize, and mitigate sonic booms. 
The main concern of the future is the natural resources which are being consumed rapidly with greed undermining the consequences.The use of fertilizers may improve yields today but the impact is vast on soil texture and fertility. Also, it affects the ecosystem immensely.
This idea can solve the problem of vehicles skidding while driving on an ice coated road with a very easy way. One can drive safely on the ice coated road with the help of this device by attaching this device on the car.
How does your idea solve this problem?
MECHANISM: we will develop this device according to the diagram.
ROLE OF OUR MACHINE:
The high amount of labor necessary for weeding, harvesting, drying, threshing and shelling makes the crop economically unattractive to the younger generation of farmers. The very laborious tasks of threshing and shelling are made easier with our groundnut separator and decorticator machine.
This product will be made with plastic. This plate will solve the problem of cake slices breaking and falling down. A lot of cake is left behind on the plate at the time of serving cake slices. There is always a problem of serving cake slices after cutting the cake.
This is the advanced accident detection system which is a help in case of the accident. In this system we use Arduino, GSM and GPS module. This system works when two cars hit each other.
In recent years, it was discovered that the power of the sun can be collected and stored, to be used on a global scale with the purpose of eventually replacing the conventional sources of energy. As the world is turning its focus to cleaner power, solar energy has seen a significant rise in importance.
The Health Watch is different from a fitness watch which not only helps to burn calories or reads the heart beat; it is also one step ahead in maintaining a balanced diet for people who often miss their proper nutrients in their food in the day to day busy life.
You know, there is a reason that no one had asked for this device at the pump: didn’t know it existed, until now.
Gas Cap Grip: This consumer tool is needed. And, the one size fits all factory fuel caps.
There are approximately 240 million vehicles on today’s roadways. More than 200 million vehicles have fuel caps.
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