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- Plastics Manufacturer Can Save U.S.$8 Million With Global Data Solution
- Global plastics manufacturer Nypro has 37 plants in 17 countries. Until recently, each plant used its own application to capture product quality control information. Michael Kilday, Corporate Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at Nypro, wanted to consolidate the company's data and standardise the collection process, making it easier...
- Tags: Product Quality, Microsoft Corp., Plastics
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Photos: A future in bioplastics
- The Green Manufacturing Expo showed there may be a bright future in plastics--bioplastics, that is. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Plastics, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-07
- Photos: Baking plastic from plants
- Cereplast brews plant-based plastics that make up compostable tableware and eventually, perhaps, the case of your future cell phone. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Plastics, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-04
- Just two words: Green plastics. Think about it.
- Why do many of the green tech stories I wind up cover have some sort of moral dilemma involved? I mean, come on, plastics have gotten a rap as one of the most heinous substances I our daily lives. According to the subject of this latest...
- Tags: Plastics, Novomer, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Turning HP printers into hip flower pots
- OK, this seems like totally the wrong time of year for this post, given that my husband and I just stashed all our gardening equipment for the winter. But, if you're the kind of person who thinks about landscaping all year around regardless of your home climate, you might want...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Plastics, TerraCycle, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Injection-Molding Innovator Saves Time, Cuts Costs With Conferencing Solution
- Medway Plastics/Plastics Fabrication Technologies (MEDWAY/PFT), a world leader in custom injection molding and tooling, needed a better way to communicate with affiliates, suppliers, and customers. The company tried a third-party video conferencing solution, but had problems related to software compatibility, firewalls, and Internet-connection speed. The company then tried a third-party...
- Tags: Solution, Microsoft Corp., Plastics, Innovator, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Photos: Natural plastics for eco-conscious consumers
- Metabolix and agricultural giant ADM plan to sell biodegradable plastics for consumer goods next year.
- Tags: plastics, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-24
- 'Flexible' plastic for electronic circuits?
- By adding a polymer acid to a common plastic, chemists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a plastic with changeable conductivity which could be used to build future electronic devices. This doped plastic can be manufactured at room temperature and can have a conductivity ten times higher...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- MagnetMaker (exe)
- MagnetMaker works with magnetic paper. Make fridge magnets quickly and easily, you can create high quality fridge magnets in minutes, enter your own designs logs and then simply print directly from your computer onto our high quality magnetic paper.
- Tags: Magnet, Plastics
- Software downloads 2007-03-22
- Time for plastic electronics?
- Time for plastic electronics?Oh the possiblitiesI see uses for this that really won't displace paper products. I think it will revolutionize porptable devices like cellphones. Imagine a mini computer in pocket with a blu-tooth plastic display like this. all this needs is an input device. Touch screen? Is that possible?Plastic...
- Tags: Manufacturing, plastics, global warming, electronics
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- Phillips Plastics' Focus on Innovation and Time-to-Market Enable Rapid Development of Sleek, Patented Chemical Splash Goggles
- Phillips Plastics wanted to design ultramodern chemical safety goggles to customer's criteria for style, fit, assembly and ventilation and meet delivery target. Concept sketches of the goggles were drawn by hand and then imported into NX. The customer had supplied Phillips with a physical model of a human head, so...
- Tags: Innovation, Optics, Siemens AG, Modeling, Plastics, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Triple-shape plastics for surgery
- In Plastics Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when the temperature increases. Even if these polymeric triple-shape materials have not emerged from the lab, they could eventually...
- Tags: C/C++, polymer, stent, C, plastics
- Blog posts 2006-11-25
- Biodegradable plastics made from corn
- Biodegradable plastics have already been created by using proteins from plants such as corn or soy. But they were not strong enough to be used by the industry. Now, researchers at Iowa State University have found a way to reinforce these biorenewable plastics. They are using high-powered ultrasonics to reinforce...
- Tags: plastics
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Apple comes 'clean' on MacBooks
- Apple has apparently admitted that the discoloration on the wrist rests of some MacBooks mostly white ones is actually a manufacturing defect as opposed to a "cosmetic" problem caused by improper handling by the owner whatever that means. Cosmetic problems that don't affect the functionality of the device aren't covered...
- Tags: discoloration, Apple MacBook
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSA
- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSAThe WiMAX Steamrollerwill set us free. With no external control over "the MESH", and encrypting ALL traffic - there will be no way to tap into the traffic. Meshing technology will randomly route traffic, and since its all encrypted - you...
- Tags: Internet, Orwellian, phone, plastics, AT&T Corp., What-If, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
- Microsoft to phase out toxic plastics
- Microsoft to phase out toxic plasticsMicrosoft to phase out toxic plasticsGood job Microsoft! I'm glad to see Microsoft extending their contributions beyond just a single entity and looking out for the whole world. We need a lot less toxins in this world. Although I'm not...
- Tags: PVC, plastics, toxic plastic, Microsoft Corp., ABM
- Discussion threads 2005-12-07
- Apple acknowledges problem with Nano
- Apple acknowledges problem with NanoCustomers are sometimes jerksDo you expect manufacturer to use non-scratchable crystals like in some watches (e.g. Swiss Army by Victorinox- not cheap imitation called "Swiss Military").Well you could, but that ain't cheap and do not expect that some miracle will drop manufacturing prices of everything. Optics...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Nano, nano, plastics
- Discussion threads 2005-09-28
- ABC Turns From Theory to Practice for MSc Students and Plastics Manufacturer, Thanks to SAS Solutions
- As part of their MSc Master of Science thesis, three students from the Aarhus School of Business have built an Activity-Based Costing ABC model for the plastics manufacturer SP Moulding, which will provide company managers with a better basis for determining prices and calculating customer profitability. In 2004, they were...
- Tags: ABC Inc., Theory, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Plastics, Managerial Accounting, Finance
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- Leading Plastics Manufacturer Innovates for Growth and Improved Work Force Productivity
- Based in South Hackensack, New Jersey, AEP Industries is a global manufacturer of flexible packing with 2,800 employees and 17 locations worldwide. Operating in highly competitive markets, AEP needed to improve individual and team productivity and increase the velocity of information sharing among employees. AEP deployed Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services,...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Plastics, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Office Suites
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- SAP Enterprise Service Select Helps a Leading Plastics Manufacturer Transform Its Business
- Toray Plastics America Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of polypropylene and polyester film and foam products. The company wanted to build a solid foundation for continuous improvement activities and streamline corporate structure. The challenge was to improve customer satisfaction, increase information access for better decision making and standardize business...
- Tags: SAP AG, Plastics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
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