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The Life and Times of a Summer Intern

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Written by guest blogger, Emma Trappe All of the Neponset Plant Summer Interns in Foxboro, MA My first day as an intern with Schneider Electric in Foxboro, Massachusetts, consisted of a whirlwind of faces, names, and expectations for what my internship would look like in the coming weeks. Though I started off the day by arriving at the wrong building entrance, my day only went up from there. Within the first few hours I met my direct manager, my project manager, and my desk space. I was then taken on a tour of the facility. With a fancy coffee machine and a laptop to break in, I began my workday in earnest. My Manufacturing Internship Experience I was officially hired as a Manufacturing Intern under Don Guilmain, working with Anthony Chaussie and Courtney Slater in Pressure for my first-time study project. As an intern, I picked up various jobs during my stay however. I went on to perform time studies focusing on cost and process improvements in another department, assisted with...

Yes, Data Center Flexibility and Standardization are Possible

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Guest Blogger: Casey Vanderbeek, Director of Client Technical Solutions , Infomart Data Centers Being “busy doing nothing”, eating “jumbo shrimp”, or having a “minor crisis” — none of these oxymoronic activities are recommended in a data center. The one oxymoron you can get behind, however, is flexible standardization. That’s how Infomart Data Centers is  creating a multisite, colocation environment that appears and operates the same, no matter where the facility is, using a HyperPod solution. We need to quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively support the different sized deployments our customers require while eliminating inconsistencies across all Infomart data center locations in Portland, Oregon, San Jose, California, and Virginia. The Right-Fit Solution for Infomart Data Centers When starting the build process at our Virgina site, the Infomart team went to the Schneider Electric Technology Center in St. Louis and discovered HyperPod . It’s flexible and scalable enough ...