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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
IT Engineering and Werum agree on partnership for the Japanese Pharma MES Market
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN and LUENEBURG, GERMANY - IT Engineering Ltd. (IT&E), a leading Japanese provider of manufacturing solutions and services to the pharmaceutical industries, and Werum Software & Systems, the worldwide leading provider of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for the pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical industries, today announced their strong partnership for the Japanese market.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 07:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
With the 12-week-long American Axle Holdings strike now over, idled Indiana autoworkers could be recalled in about two weeks, a General Motors official estimated Friday.
More than a dozen Indiana factories supplying General Motors laid off about 6,000 workers as strikebound American Axle deprived GM of axles, leading it to cancel assembly of about 330,000 cars and trucks. GM officials estimated the axle strike and short strikes this year at its own plants have cost it $2.6 billion in pretax profits.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 06:22 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
Singapore's industrial production unexpectedly declined in April, the biggest drop in 10 months, as drug companies and electronic manufacturers reduced output.
Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of Singapore's economy, fell 5.7 percent from a year earlier, following a revised 18.1 percent gain in March, the Economic Development Board said today. Analysts predicted a 6 percent increase.
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 02:19 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
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Plastics auxiliary supplier Conair (Franklin, PA) and size-reduction specialist Rapid Granulator (Bredaryd, Sweden) will mirror the organizational model applied in their new Chinese production plant, with the sister firms consolidating North American and European manufacturing efforts. Chris Keller, president of the companies’ parent firm, International Plastics Equipment Group (IPEG; Cranberry Township, PA), described the decision in a conference call as a continuation of what began last year in China with the combined Shanghai plant
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008 12:16 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
As designs progressed from the 130nm node on their quest to keep up with Moore's law, physics asserted its influence on circuits behavior. The EDA industry, always creative in finding timely solutions to the pressing problems of the electronics industry, rose to the challenge and defined a new market segment, unfortunately labeled DFM for Design For Manufacturing. I say unfortunately because, as I have pointed out innumerable other times, we designed for manufacturing since the invention of the light bulb (and probably even before that).
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Tuesday 27 May, 2008 08:12 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
The days of dedicated, high-volumeproduction- only pallet magazines and pools are gone.
Today’s machine pallet systems provide shops the flexibility to add or subtract pallets or different types of machines to production cells at any time, and to apply palletization to manufacturing a high mix of low-volume jobs.
And, today’s pallet systems allow jobshops to invest on demand.
The decision to incorporate a palletized system no longer has to be made at the time a machine is purchased, so shops can incorporate palletizing systems to existing machine tools years after they’ve been purchased.
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Saturday 24 May, 2008 12:35 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
The challenges presented by material price versus performance in pump shaft manufacturing get tougher with each price increase for raw materials.
Friction welding as a way to reduce costs is a viable option for design engineering and new product development. This article provides background on friction welding for pump shaft manufacturing.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 06:28 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by George Tan
When Henry Ford decided that his company would base its business strategy on affordable automobiles, he had his engineers design a manufacturing system that revolved around a low-cost, assembly-line process.
The idea of standardization and mass production was thought to be the only road to low-cost and high-quality manufacturing. Of course this idea had been in use in a variety of hardware and machinery manufacturing companies since the early 19th century. Mass production was viewed as a natural way to make things efficiently.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 04:42 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Oconto - K.C. Stock was at a Florida airport when his banker from Wisconsin told him that the old Cruisers yacht factory was going to be sold at auction if somebody didn't buy the place soon.
It was on a Saturday 15 years ago. The banker wanted to know if Stock was interested in acquiring the factory, which was nearly shut down and in poor condition. There wasn't much time to decide, the banker said, so Stock returned to Wisconsin that afternoon.
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Thursday 22 May, 2008 04:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
BEIJING – GKN Driveline plans to open a major new production facility in Wuhan, China, next year.
Haixiang Wang, business development director for GKN Group -- China, said the company will build a 144,000-square-foot plant scheduled to open during the first half of 2009.
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Friday 16 May, 2008 12:35 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.- With their sights set on intensifying manufacturing companies' product cost reduction efforts while increasing efficiencies and profitability, two leading suppliers in the fields of Product Lifecycle
Costing and Lean Design(R) announced their joint alliance today.
FACTON(R) Inc., a world leading product lifecycle software solutions provider that specializes in enhancing the profitability of manufacturing organizations by managing profit margins and reducing product costs announced a key partnership today with global Lean Design(R) pioneer, Munro & Associates, Inc. and its software development organization, Design Profit, Inc.
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Friday 16 May, 2008 06:30 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
Pune, India: The 1st International Automotive Engineering Show was inaugurated yesterday by Dr. Thomas Dahlem, Technical Director, Volkswagen India and the Chief Guest for the inaugural function at the newly constructed Auto Cluster Exhibition Centre, Chinchwad, Pune. The 4 day exhibition started yesterday and will be on till 17th May , 2008.
Solutions for Automotive Manufacturing
“Solutions for Automotive Manufacturing” is the theme of the event. The exhibition will showcase high-end technology solutions in Robotics, Automation, Engineering Services, Painting and Welding solutions and Machine tools for the Automotive industry.
"India will be the largest market for four wheelers in the world."
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Thursday 15 May, 2008 06:19 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Metal costs, largely responsible for vehicle price hikes , will soon cease to pinch the automobile manufacturers' margins as they become increasingly aware of the benefits of using engineering plastic instead of metals in vehicles.
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Tuesday 13 May, 2008 10:32 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
The most common way into aerospace design is through studying a relevant degree at university, following on from A-levels (or equivalent) in maths, physics and another subject. There are over 30 aerospace and aeronautical engineering degrees in the UK, many of which are accredited by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), helping you on the route to chartered engineer status. There are also specialist undergraduate degrees such as engineering with management or space systems engineering.
....click the link to read more
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Friday 9 May, 2008 02:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
Amid all the talk of robots and controllers, it can be easy to forget about end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) . Nonetheless, while it’s true the cost of a gripper will pale in comparison to the robot wielding it, an effective gripper is crucial to the success of any material handling system.
In the beginning, end-of-arm tooling was the exclusive purview of robot manufacturers themselves. However, the industry has since evolved to where a number of companies now specialize in robotic tooling, in the process providing engineers with increased functionality, greater ease of use and lower prices.
....click the link to read more
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Friday 9 May, 2008 02:01 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Peter Wu
Consulting engineers can be great allies in expanding or changing your process, but only you can impress on them the unique needs of your company and your plant.
Competition in the food and beverage market grows more intense every day. The manufacturers that feed the world are being pushed to provide new products in a low-cost, fast and efficient method. As a result, the profits of successful food processors are heavily influenced by the performance of their manufacturing lines.
One common cause of low performance is poor equipment integration and commissioning. Poor project integration is commonly the result of picking the wrong project execution methodology.
....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 02:31 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
New Delhi: Working towards a National manufacturing Policy , boosting the capital goods markets, opening up strategic sectors and developing visionary leadership, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is embarking on a Ten Point Strategic Agenda this year to facilitate the Manufacturing Sector in achieving and sustaining 25 per cent share of the GDP by the year 2020.
This new, tactical approach evolved by the CII is aimed at taking the manufacturing sector up from its current range of 15-17 per cent of the GDP to 25 per cent over the next 12 years. Traditionally, manufacturing has enjoyed a ‘cost advantage’ due to labour arbitrage, but that advantage does not exist any more. CII plans to meet this challenge through this new multifaceted approach.
....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 6 May, 2008 02:04 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
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"This is not rocket science," says Mark Calkins, a maintenance engineering organization senior manager for Boeing, a company that knows plenty about rocket science.
Boeing is the planet's largest manufacturer of commercial and military airplanes. It builds satellites, missiles and helicopters. It operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station for NASA. It is one of the most complex, technically based corporations in the world. ....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 30 April, 2008 02:00 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
In a world where everything from mobile phones to computers, portable music players and all manner of instruments is getting smaller, engineers need new tools to predict how materials will behave when they are being processed or shaped at scales as subtle as their molecular make-up.
Fabrication of materials, particularly metals, at the level of atoms and molecules is the basis of nanotechnology – the new generation of micro-manufacturing – and it poses new challenges for engineers who need to be able to predict how materials will behave when worked on as molecules.
....click the link to read more
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Monday 28 April, 2008 10:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Future nanomanufacturing processes will rely on two basic principles: a combination of chemical synthesis and self-assembly on one hand and robotic nanofabrication on the other. While the former is a controlled 'natural' process relying on chemistry and self-organization principles of nature (read more: How falling spaghettis could lead to more complex nanotechnology self-assembly), the latter will be an industrial process similar in concept to today's automated manufacturing assembly lines.
....click the link to read more
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 10:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
They call it rapid manufacturing , and its progress has been slow, though steady, in gaining the acceptance of industry.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York currently has one of its periodic exhibits showcasing artifacts that make use of industrial engineering and commercial technology. It's called Design and the Elastic Mind. Objects and installations involve video, computers, nanotechnology, and various forms of manufacturing. One curious object is a handbag made of interlocking links that weave among each other, much like the endless knots that decorate old manuscripts.
....click the link to read more
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