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The Monday Blog Alert from IEN Connects features direct links to items of interest or concern to the greater manufacturing and industrial community, written by IEN's editors. The Blog Alert is designed to raise issues, introduce technological advancements, invite reader comment, establish community dialogue and, at times, even generate a few laughs! New this week...

Gentlemen: Start Your Fingers
By Mike Botta, IEN Staff
We’re worried about the future while our politicians are preoccupied with the past. What’s wrong with this picture?...

Le Mans Winners Take Home the Green
By Debbie Maskin, IEN Staff
GM and Porsche won the American Le Mans Series Green Challenge, whose goal is to speed development of more fuel efficient vehicle propulsion systems for future use in consumer vehicles...

Start Your Virtual Engines
By Jennifer Hooker, IEN Staff
Can playing video games actually make people better drivers? Allstate Corp. is looking into just that, but we have our doubts...

Green Product Development: IEN Readers Report from the Trenches
By Mary O'Hara Smith, IEN Staff
Green engineering: Is it worth it? Is green revolutionizing product development or just complicating it? What we learned from IEN subscribers...

Misc Cool Stuff: New Apple Mfg Processes to Laptop Seizures
By Mark Devlin, IEN Staff
Let’s take a look at some recent tech, manufacturing, green, and security news, as well as a must-have guide that’s available right here...

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