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Measurement is the key to savings

Common sense is good, but measurement can often find problems in a system that guesswork cannot.
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Reduced desktop power consumption

I recently used the tools of DMAIC (Define Measure Analyze Improve Control) to reduce the energy diet of my home computer.Through careful planning and not a little bit of cleverness, I was able to cut power consumption in this area by 64%, based on a draw of 1985 kWh/year. I step through the entire DMAIC [...]
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