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An exclusive 10-year business agreement with Scottishpower is set to secure further work at Siemens Energy 's Newcastle facility until 2019. The contract for parts, shop repairs and field service for three gas turbines, generators and a steam turbine at Rye House power station in Hertfordshire commenced on 1 January 2010. The contract will be managed by the Siemens project and order management teams based in Newcastle, with all required site works executed by the UK-based field service team. The project has already provided a boost for Siemens' Energy Service employees. This deal follows on from the five-year business agreement between Siemens and Scottishpower, signed in 2005, to cover parts, shop repair and field service for the gas turbines, generators and the steam turbine. The project has resulted in Rye House reducing its emissions and improving efficiency while maintaining a high level of availability. The 10-year business agreement, split into two five-year terms (the f...

LOTAR is working on long-term archiving of digital product data in the automobile and aerospace industry in order to save this data securely for years. Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe - Standardisation (ASD-STAN) and ProSTEP iViP signed a co-operation agreement on 1st July, 2008. The two standardisation organisations aim to release standards faster on an international scale for the automobile and aerospace industry with the support of the Long-Term Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) group. LOTAR is working on long-term archiving of digital product data in the automobile and aerospace industry in order to save this data securely for years. "Thus we are reaching a new quality in the area of standardisation ", said Gunter Lessmann, Director of ASD-STAN, which is based in Brussels. "In doing so we make sure that the working results of the LOTAR project can be transferred into standards on a European as well as international level at the same time...