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14 STORM & SECURITY PROTECTION / DIRECTORY & RESOURCE GUIDE 2014 www.simu.com 50 mm diameter radio motor with integrated manual override suitable for rolling shutters, awnings and rolling doors. • A thin motor head (only 24 mm) that is easy to integrate • End-limit adjustment screws are accessible from both sides of the motor head • Different torques are available, from 15 to 50 Nm • Also available: ○ DMI6 Hz.01, 60 mm diameter, torques from 60 to 100 Nm DMI5 Hz.01 COMPLETE RANGE OF MOTORS, CONTROLS AND AUTOMATION Vehicle Management If a company that has any significant amount of investment in vehicles involved in the production or delivery of a product, it will see the immediate benefit of adding GPS to its arsenal of technology updates. Fuel efficiency, bad driving habits, route optimization, improved customer billing or an accurate accounting of delivery expense is calculated into the selling cost of a product or service. Optimize Management Information is traveling faster than ever before allowing real-time monitoring and the increased productivity inherent in having eyes on the process while the product is being manufactured. With increased Internet speed, additional band- width and improved performance of digital imagery, production and related activities can be monitored anytime or anywhere in the world. Brian Vance, president of Green Forest Industries, installed production cameras and realized a seven percent increase in output in the dayshift and a 12 percent gain from the nightshift. "Employees are more motivated to perform correctly knowing that proficiency will be rewarded and inefficiency will be corrected or eliminated from the production process," Vance says. Companies that deploy production cameras have a decrease in shrinkage and lost-time accidents, as well. Push Advertising Advertising in the yellow pages used to be effective marketing; now the yellow pages are a small and shrinking part of the new age of advertising. Today, businesses are moving away from consumer reactive phone directories and into Internet technolo- gy, which allows businesses to specifically target their users and "push" information to them. Optimizing your organization's Web site, being "liked" on Facebook, posting photos on Instagram and increasing your following on Twitter are ways to get your company in front of customers. Technology continues to challenge and reward businesses that stay current. To maintain an advantage over competitors your company must adopt to the continuing stream of technological changes taking place as the world moves to a global community. Don Leggett is managing partner for Insurance Office of America. PROTECT / YOURSELF continued

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