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Happy Birthday Product Lifecycle Stories!
Contrary to what I’ve been told by family and friends, I strongly believe everyone should have a full month to celebrate their birthday. It’s perfectly acceptable to frequently remind people it’s your birthday. Proclaim it loudly. Loud enough to drown out the sound of eyes rolling. Next month, May, marks the one-year anniversary of this blog – Product Lifecycle Stories. …
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Tagged compliance, education, employment, hybrid air vehicle, product design, robotics, transportation
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Apple’s Supplier Report Only Scratches the Surface
Late last week Apple published its Supplier Responsibility 2012 Progress Report in conjunction with a list of its leading suppliers. The 2012 Progress Report provides insight into the findings from 229 audits that Apple performed within its supply chain in 2011. The report found that almost a third of Apple’s audited suppliers do not abide by the company’s standards, with …
New Regs Tighten Compliance for Medical Devices Manufacturers
There are amazing things going on in the medical devices industry today, as evidenced by stories of war vets returning from Afghanistan with prosthetic limbs, and the 50-year-old Englishman who last month become the world’s first patient to have a Smartphone built into an artificial arm. But as these medical devices become more common and complex, so are demands from …
Feds Raid Gibson Guitar amid Allegations of Illegal Rare-Wood Exports
Gibson Guitar is best known for the legendary Les Paul guitars and the musicians who play them, including Jimmy Paige, B.B. King, Slash and Paul McCartney. But lately, Gibson’s been feeling the heat from the Feds after being raided on allegations of illegally importing ebony from India and failure to comply with the Lacey Act. This is the second time …
Global Retailers Tighten Control after Chemicals Outcry
Trust is important. It’s difficult to earn and can be lost very quickly. For any global manufacturer trust is essential in order to build a strong brand and a sustainable business. When products fall short of consumer expectations—proving dangerous to personal health or the environment—news spreads quickly via the internet and social media, with damaging effects to a company’s brand, reputation …
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Tagged compliance, Greenpeace, IC Companys A/S, product analytics, suppy chain
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LED Lighting Replaces Old Technology on Highways
Are we finally seeing the light when it comes to LED technology? LED lighting has been around for a while, in our cell phones, homes and cars. LED lights are generally accepted to be more environmentally sound and to last much longer—LED headlamps on newer car models will last the entire life of the vehicle and won’t drain the battery like …
Ideas on the Cheap: Outsourcing Innovation in the Medical Devices Industry
The medical devices industry in the United States has long created top-notch lifesaving equipment built to work across the board in every possible scenario. The American market demands über devices with all the latest bells and whistles (whether necessary or not). But this ultra-expensive bigger-is-better model is turning off a global market. Emerging economies such as India and Africa just …
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Tagged China, compliance, FDA, India, medical devices, Stanford University
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Barbie Brand Takes a Hit Over Rainforest Destruction
It turns out Barbie isn’t the environmentally conscientious modern woman we all hoped she was. Greenpeace recently took on Mattel for packaging Barbie in materials made from endangered rainforests. Greenpeace claims that Mattel is using Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)—which uses wood from Indonesian rainforests—as a supplier, and has mounted an all-out attack on our all-American girl. A humorous but …
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Tagged Barbie, compliance, Greenpeace, Mattel, quality, supply chain
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