The smart machines of the future will need programming, servicing and upgrading — work done, perhaps, by a new class of digital technicians.
An additional 2,900 BAE staff are employed in the Portsmouth area on tasks that include maintaining, servicing and upgrading the Royal Navy ships at the naval base.
Diebold's former chief executive, Robert Mahoney, an 18-year company veteran who was nearing retirement, came up with a plan: Push into foreign markets and harp on servicing and upgrading old machines at home.
Oil companies used the enforced suspension to service and upgrade their drilling equipment, keeping shipyards and service companies busy.
Like other distributors of Linux, Red Hat gains sales by making it easier for companies to install, service and upgrade the free software.
So the target in sustainable development goals to "ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services, and upgrade slums by 2030" seems overambitious at best, and simply delusional at worst.
Both oil revenues and American financial support have plummeted just as the country has the chance to take advantage of its increasing stability to improve basic services and upgrade its ruined infrastructure.
Yet the agencies that operate the transportation systems are having difficulty finding the money to expand service and upgrade facilities, so they are asking drivers and riders to pay more.
After preheating, the cooling rebound of these prebuckles was constrained by the new trenches, and axial pretension was induced in the pipe wall to offset the axial compression in service and upgrade the thermal stability of the entire pipeline.
However, even with falling equipment costs, it is essential that you understand what you are buying and how it works in order to hire the best people to install, service and upgrade the system over time.
