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Nippon, IBM collaborate on 'dragons' of future

Nippon Dragon Resources has retained IBM for the development of a cloud-based information-acquisition system that uses sensors for its thermal-fragmentation units, commonly referred to as 'dragons'.

Nadav Shemer
Still from 2-D animation of Nippon's thermal fragmentation method

Still from 2-D animation of Nippon's thermal fragmentation method

This agreement is the second phase of a project whose ultimate outcome will be to gather and process data in real-time from operating thermal units in the field, Nippon said. The first phase was the preparation...

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