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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
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Bangalore, IT major Citrix Systems will invest $200 million (Rs 8.5 billion) to expand its research and development (R&D) operations in India, a top company official said Wednesday. “The investment over the next five years in our second R&D facility in Bangalore will enable us to hire another 500 engineers in phases and ramp up our headcount to 750 by 2012,” Citrix chief financial officer David J. Henshall told reporters here.
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Monday 23 June, 2008 05:24 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
LOWELL, Mass– Dassault Systèmes (DS) a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today unveiled important updates to ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central™ for automotive and high tech industries regulatory compliance
Built on the ENOVIA V6 platform, ENOVIA Materials Compliance Central is a business-process application designed to empower companies to adopt proactive environmental compliance strategies throughout a product’s lifecycle, from design to disposal. New “Eco-Design” capabilities enable automotive and high-tech manufacturers to meet the increasingly-stringent regulations mandated by the EU, specifically the End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) directives.
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Thursday 19 June, 2008 10:12 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Intercim LLC , a global leader in manufacturing and production operations management software solutions for
advanced and highly regulated industries and Dassault Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq:
DASTY; Euronext Paris: No.13065, DSY.PA), world leader in 3D and Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding focused on combined solutions for the aerospace and defense
industry
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Wednesday 18 June, 2008 12:06 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
Stacks of paper files overflowing from file cabinets and crammed in storage rooms managed thousands of orders at VirTex Assembly Services Inc . for 10 years.
The Austin manufacturer built the latest routers, laptops and other computer necessities but ironically used little technology to track orders.
Finally fed up with the clutter, President Brad Heath made a change -- one that has helped him grow the company.
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Monday 16 June, 2008 04:14 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
The phrase “Lean maintenance” lends itself to an onslaught of requisite punch lines …
“Our maintenance is so lean …
* “You can read through it.”
* “If it turned sideways and stuck out its tongue, it would look like a zipper.”
* “It has to run around in the shower to get wet.”
Most professional plant leadership understand that Lean maintenance has nothing to do with thinning out warm bodies, or more directly, reducing maintenance resources. Rather, it has to do with enhancing the value-added nature of our reliability efforts.
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Sunday 15 June, 2008 10:50 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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It’s Sunday afternoon . Thousands of fans cheer wildly as race cars fly by at speeds nearing 200 mph for 200 laps. They whiz down the pit road making pit stops, changing tires and refueling. Only, the tanks are not being filled with gas; they’re being filled with air.
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Monday 9 June, 2008 12:41 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. LAI International, Inc ., a strategic supplier of precision components and sub-assemblies for original equipment manufacturers, has completed a Kaizen event that has reduced the cycle time of a key process in the production of a gas turbine component by 58 percent.
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Friday 6 June, 2008 06:11 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
MARAND Precision Engineering has attributed its winning of the 2008 Manufacturer of the Year Award to its investment in technology such as computer aided design (CAD).
The fifth annual Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards at the National Manufacturing Week in Sydney saw Marand winning the Manufacturer of the Year, Exporter of the Year and Global Integration awards.
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Wednesday 4 June, 2008 04:21 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh
Lawrenceville, NJ - RosettaNet today announced a new standard that can help manufacturers increase product speed to market by allowing trading partners to communicate new designs, design changes and engineering details in an automated electronic format in near real time. The new Engineering Information Management (EIM) standard helps ensure that design specifications will be communicated quickly and exactly as documented. Using the EIM standard, all documentation travels together so all information can be found in one place and one format, simplifying business processes, eliminating manual paper-based formats and reducing errors.
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Monday 2 June, 2008 11:53 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
Engineers hold the key to solving the problems of the future, says Lord Browne of Madingley, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering
The engineering profession brings to society a unique combination of scientific analysis, and problem-solving. The key to engineering is its practice because the particular skills of engineers are developed by solving real-world problems. And the complex nature of engineering challenges means that engineers more often than not need to engage with communities, politics, economic realities and environmental considerations.
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Monday 2 June, 2008 10:39 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
"Then, you are looking down on our line workers," said a former director of Toyota's Production and Research Department , the epicenter of its just-in-time system. "If we make a production line simple enough that anyone can work at it, we are eliminating skills from our company."
I was interviewing him for an article about Toyota's production sites. And my question was if he is planning to change production lines so that even inexperienced workers can work at them without difficulty.
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Saturday 31 May, 2008 04:59 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha
Dedham, Boston, United States and Bangalore, Karnataka, India,
ARC Advisory Group India , will host their Fifth International Forum, ‘Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries’ in Hyderabad on July 10-12, 2008. The Forum will deliberate on process industry challenges and lay the roadmap to successfully overcome them. The focus of the forum is on Process Industries, such as electric power, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, chemical, oil and gas, metals, cement, and pulp and paper. Industry leaders from manufacturing companies, engineering procurement consultants, OEMs, suppliers of automation systems and enterprise solutions, and other stakeholders would discuss and deliberate on the appropriate competitive strategies and manufacturing models ensuring future success.
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Saturday 31 May, 2008 06:46 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
From an engineering perspective, this story has several very interesting areas regarding design and application -
A single mother of four from New York is accusing Victoria’s Secret of ripping off her bra.
Katerina Plew says that the lingerie maker’s real secret is that they stole her patented design for a better bra that can be adjusted to prevent the straps showing.
Ms Plew, 38, has filed a suit in New York seeking triple damages after discovering a display for the company’s “Very Sexy 100-Way Strapless Convertible Bra” in a shopping mall near her home in Selden, Long Island.
“It’s my bra,” she told The Times yesterday. “It’s my patent. I am the one who invented it and I had an appointment to meet with them about it.”
....click the link to read more
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Monday 5 May, 2008 02:03 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
PUNE: Should the engineering colleges in the state operate in two shifts to bridge the demand-supply gap for qualified skill sets? The private unaided institutions here have favoured such an idea in the wake of the state government's plan to introduce double shifts for polytechnic institutes from 2008-09.
The institutions have incorporated the idea as one of their recommendations in a document that is to be forwarded to the state government in a week's time. The idea was spelt out in presence of state minister for higher and technical education Dilip Walse-Patil during a meeting held on Thursday to commemorate 25 years of the government's decision to allow private institutions in higher and technical education.
....click the link to read more
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Saturday 3 May, 2008 06:49 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
CAMBRIDGE - With the first game of a late March doubleheader scheduled for noon, members of the MIT baseball team and a Rawlings representative meet at 8:30, gathering in a back corner of the school's Aero/Astro hangar. Lefthanded reliever Mike Vasquez stands behind an air cannon, launching baseballs at a mannequin wearing a chest protector. Righthanded starter Jay Turner records electronic sensor data each time a ball makes contact.
Not your typical pregame routine . But as a result of their work, Vasquez and Turner could "make it" to the major leagues.
....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 29 April, 2008 06:43 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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Arena Solutions, the leading provider of on-demand product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturers of all sizes, today announced that Ritchey Design Inc. (www.ritcheylogic.com), a leading innovator in bicycle design and engineering, has chosen on-demand Arena PLM to streamline its current product development process, boost productivity and improve global communication and collaboration. Arena PLM will help the company speed the development and release of future products as well as enhancements to current products, including its highly innovative Break-Away Bikes, a line of ultra-light, racing-quality bikes that separate so they can be packed in a standard suitcase for easy travel. Ritchey will also integrate Arena PLM with its Box Solutions ERP system, further streamlining company processes by linking product planning with product execution. ....click the link to read more
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Friday 18 April, 2008 10:16 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
The Dubai Engineering Challenges 2008 conference has begun at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) Dubai Men’s College campus.
Under the spotlight are the engineering challenges shaping the sustainable future of Dubai and the UAE, the organisers said in a statement.
More than 1,000 delegates consisting of industry leaders, engineering professionals, educators and engineering students are providing a stimulating forum to debate industry best practice, solutions to the impending skills shortage and ways in which innovation can overcome the unique challenges facing the region’s engineering projects.
....click the link to read more
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 06:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Yan Chu
MANILA, Philippines—Value engineering is often defined as the formal or informal attempt to assure highest value by delivering all required functions of a certain product, project, or process at the lowest overall cost.
And who would not love practicing value engineering, especially with today’s rising price of construction materials, increasing labor cost as well as the need to have the structure finished the soonest time possible.
....click the link to read more
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 06:20 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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Nelson Engineering Co. is the latest engineering consulting company to implement Dyadem's FMEA-Pro software to deliver efficient, high quality reliability and maintainability assessments to its clients. A premier engineering design, operations and maintenance consulting firm, Nelson Engineering evaluates complex heritage and newly designed facility systems, equipment and utilities (FSEU) for the aerospace, environmental and defense sectors and the U.S. State Department. ....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 2 April, 2008 06:06 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
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The late nineties saw most global businesses make a transition towards a paperless office. Today, the buzzword amongst major businesses is “Virtualization” . Employees connected to each other can share data and make business decisions on a real time basis. In the quest for virtualization, organizations are facing roadblocks during implementation in terms of Information security. Any compromise on the security aspect will leave the network vulnerable to attacks from a range of sources. Such connectivity if not secured will provide attackers the perfect medium to approach employees from the relative anonymity of the Internet. ....click the link to read more
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Wednesday 26 March, 2008 02:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
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As a plant manager for the past seven years, I had a unique opportunity to lead a lean manufacturing implementation in two separate facilities. The plants were similar in numerous ways. They were both building-products manufacturing facilities, both were continuous processes, both had roughly 300 hourly people, and they were both owned by the same Fortune 500 corporation. ....click this link to read more
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Friday 21 March, 2008 06:05 AM |
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