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July 2012
How to Cut Warranty Costs and Increase Service Profits
After deciding which product to purchase, whether it’s a car, appliance, or large industrial piece of equipment, the decision of how to protect that investment is critical. There’s the factory warranty, standard warranty, extended warranty, service contracts, and other protective packages to choose from. Each is a product in itself, and at times the value of the warranty can sway …
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Tagged contract management, Service Lifecycle Management, warranty management
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Apparel Industry Moves towards Sustainability
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition—a trade group of over 60 members including brands Nike and Gap, Inc., retailers Target and Nordstrom, and a plethora of suppliers, NGOs and government agencies—has launched a sustainability tool called the Higg Index, which will enable the industry to assess the sustainability of products. It’s hoped the Higg Index will provide a means of standardizing the …
Posted in Industry News
Tagged footwear & apparel, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, sustainability
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Rolls-Royce Jet Engine Built from 150,000 Lego Bricks
Got nothing to do this weekend? How about a little indoor project? Build a Rolls-Royce jet engine out of Lego maybe? Well, that’s just what apprentices and graduate engineers at Bright Bricks have done. Rolls-Royce appointed Bright Bricks to design and build a working one-half scale model of the Trent 1000 turbofan engine—the engine used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner—for …
London Olympic Games Top 6 Tech Innovations
The London Olympics 2012 have begun, and while all eyes will be on the athletes themselves, there’s no denying technology is playing a growing role in performance. The first ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC, and even back then athletes employed a variety of gadgets and gizmos to enhance their performance. In long jump, for …
Doctor Droid: iRobot and InTouch Health Unveil Medical Bot
How would you feel if, at your next hospital visit, a robot turned up at your bedside instead of a real-life flesh and blood doctor? Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot is hoping you won’t mind. iRobot will unveil its first medical robot in Santa Barbara, California this week. The robot, which stands five feet tall, is designed to allow doctors to carry …
U.S. Manufacturers Step In as China’s School Bus Accidents Soar
Shoddy school buses and appalling road safety records in China and other emerging economies could spell big opportunities for U.S. school bus manufacturers like Navistar. In April, Navistar announced a partnership with Chinese truck maker JAC, with Navistar set to share safety expertise and best practices in the design and development of new school buses in China. About 1.3 million …
Live Webinar: Best Practices for Engineering Calculations- Calculate, Document, & Share
Get Excited. In less than a month, on August 14th at 1pm EST to be exact, PTC Mathcad in partnership with NASA Tech Briefs is presenting a live half-hour webinar on Best Practices for Engineering Calculations. Click here to register. Roger Yeh, a Senior Application Engineer at PTC and Ned Daniels, a Business Development Manager for Mathcad Education will both …
Services Revolution Spells New Opportunity for Manufacturers
In today’s hyper-competitive market it can be challenging for manufacturers to differentiate themselves from competitors. One strategic way to stand out from the crowd is by adding services to the product portfolio. And examples of this can be found in almost every industry. Back in the 1990s, IBM moved from the manufacture of hardware and software to providing services. The …
Team Effort: Why Investing in Your Supply Chain is Critical
Back in the 1990s, Stan Shih—the founder of IT company Acer—observed the smiley faced curve – a value chain with an upward slant at both ends and a dip in the middle. Shih argued that there’s value at the being of a product’s lifecycle where new innovations are born, and there’s profit to be made on the retail and services …
Systems Engineering with Mathcad and Integrity Integration
Highly engineered products are composed of hundreds and sometimes thousands of components that need to work together to satisfy system level objectives. In order to achieve this, engineering product teams decompose subsystem level requirements from system level objectives, and then further decompose component level requirements from those subsystem derivations. This process is commonly called requirements flow-down. These requirements lead to …
