The News Review:
- Princeton BPW honors Woman Boss of the Year
- Dassault Systèmes Launches DELMIA PLM Express
- Manufacturing renewed growth
- Sri Lanka News | Sundayobserver.lk
- Marlborough company debuts wireless infrastructure products
Princeton BPW honors Woman Boss of the Year
Princeton Times Leader – Oct 7, 2007
He is a son of member Sadie Cravens. Both work well with their female employees. Sunday ctober 07 2007A design engineer with the Kentucky Department of Highways and the manager of one of Princeton’s key manufacturing facilities took top honors from the Princeton Business and Professional Women’s Club this year. The announcement was made at the group’s regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening a kickoff to a month of activities spotlighting women in business in Caldwell County. Charlotte Cotton a member of the club for the past two years was named 2007 BPW Woman of the Year. The presentation was made to Cotton by Maggie Gammon club vice president and 2006 Woman of the Year. Gammon said it was “an honor to bestow the award upon a younger member who had worked so diligently for the club chairing committees and working on many projects… The 2007 Boss of the Year honors went to Scott Laffoon. He was selected from the nominees this year in a close three-way race. Laffoon is the manager of the Princeton Hydro-Gear plant. He came to Princeton with another company and was named manager of the new plant when it opened in the industrial park here in 2005. The Hydro-Gear plant manufactures components for lawn and garden equipment. Based in Sullivan Ill. the company’s local plant had grown to 220 employees this spring.
Dassault Systèmes Launches DELMIA PLM Express
techwhack.com – Oct 7, 2007
This allows companies to significantly cut costs by eliminating production stoppage for set-up validation on the shop floor and by eliminating rework costs. Robotics: Delivers comprehensive robotic simulation and offline programming capabilities that include dedicated functionality for arc and spot welding applications. By validating all robotic movements and programming in the virtual world companies save time and money through elimination of production stoppage on plant floor equipment. This solution also enables faster development of new processes as existing data can be stored for re-use. Ergonomics: Delivers the capability to build kinematic human models and teach various human tasks simulate processes and to optimize the human work space. In addition users can perform risk factor analysis to maximize human comfort safety and performance through a wide range of advanced tools that comprehensively evaluate important elements of a human?s interactions with a workcell. This solution allows companies to benefit from improved worker efficiency and lower health-related costs… In addition users can perform risk factor analysis to maximize human comfort safety and performance through a wide range of advanced tools that comprehensively evaluate important elements of a human?s interactions with a workcell. This solution allows companies to benefit from improved worker efficiency and lower health-related costs. Process Planning: Designed for the planner or design engineer it delivers assembly process planning validation and simulation tools plus assembly animation and dynamic authoring capabilities for assembly shop floor work instructions. Planning earlier in the design stages with the ability to capture and reuse data for shop floor implementation saves companies valuable ramp-up time and avoids costly delays in production. Controls: ffers Smart Device Builder capabilities for the engineer to create the mechanical kinematical and logical behavior of devices that can then be used to validate a PLC program in a virtual environment. In addition Virtual Commissioning solutions allow control engineers to debug PLC code weeks before the integration of the physical equipment occurs on the shop floor significantly reducing the ramp-up time of manufacturing systems and costs for maintenance operations. By catching PLC programming errors through simulation control engineers also reduce the risk of damage to physical factory equipment.
Manufacturing renewed growth
phillyBurbs.com – Oct 7, 2007
But people are starting to recognize all of the intangible costs of working overseas such as sending managers for weeks or months difficulties in the supply chain quality issues” he said. “People are starting to realize that they didn’t save the money that they expected. Advent Design has three major divisions: contract manufacturing; manufacturing engineering and design; and engineering consulting. Within those divisions are dozens of projects that range from making sterilizer systems used in grocery stores to building models to be displayed in toy stores. “We are eight 10 12 14 different businesses under one roof” Lawton said. “Each contract is its own profit center. Lawton and CE Bill Chesterson founded the company in 1984… It also does some packaging work for K’NEX. When K’NEX was looking for a United States-based packaging plant it turned to Advent which now does about 20 percent of the company’s packing. The rest is done in China although in published reports K’NEX officials have said they want to move more of that work back to the U. Lawton said Advent already has benefited from that. Ninety percent of Advent’s work is in contract manufacturing and machine design Chesterson said.
Sri Lanka News | Sundayobserver.lk
Sunday bserver – Oct 7, 2007
Group Director Lal Ekanayaketold the relaunch of Edna creamy milk chocolate that they will invest Rs. 35 mln in a deposited candy line Rs. 50 mln on a wafer biscuit plant Rs. 25 mln to refurbish the Mawanella plant and Rs. 6 mln for the new communication solution which includes video conferencing as well. Edna Cocoa Products (Pvt) Ltd. the latest company under the Edna Group will invest Rs… Wimaladasa in 1952. It was named using the first letters from his name and his wife Nalini. It specialised in manufacturing confectionery and supplying engineering components to small industries. The new generation of management has restructured the company to meet the demands of the modern era.
Marlborough company debuts wireless infrastructure products
MetroWest Daily News – Oct 7, 2007
It will also be upgradable to comply with future standards. HART stands for Highway Addressable Remote Transducer. To quote the New England Patriots chief engineer Bill Belichick it is what it is. "Globally wireless technology has had a significant impact on the way business works but it is still fighting to make inroads into the industrial world” says Sereiko. "The WirelessHART and ISA100 standards will open up the industrial automation market to wireless sensing solutions and improve the efficiency of plant operations in the world’s most critical industries. ”The products will enter the marketplace during the first half of 2008. At that time their prices will be revealed according to Sereiko… The products use wireless mesh sensor networking to accomplish the task. By freeing this data and integrating it in real time with such systems as preventative and condition-based maintenance plant operators will have a new weapon to improve efficiency says Sereiko. The company’s mission in fact is to deliver products that enable plant personnel to significantly reduce unplanned interruptions in production. "Users are not getting the valuable advantages of maximizing asset availability and utilization if they are ignoring device-related diagnostics” says Hesh Kagan director of wireless programs at Invensys Foxboro a division of London-based Invensys. "What AirSprite is developing allows wired HART devices without hard-wired diagnostic connections to participate in integrated asset performance management and add real value to bottom-line performance. ”Adds Harry Forbes senior analyst with the ARC Advisory Group "The recent release of a ratified HART specification that includes WirelessHART provides a new and potentially low-cost way for manufacturers to capture online diagnostic information from millions of existing field devices. Process manufacturers will be looking for products and solutions that can deliver this information to them economically and reliably.