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• Contract Manufacturing: Enhanced Coverage in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  projects. Last year, AstraZeneca announced that it would outsource all manufacturing operations over the next 10 years. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing has always covered contract manufacturers in depth, both in print and online. We base these articles on first-hand information, an interview and a plant...
• Contract Research Drives China's Pharma Sector
  Market to Reach US$40.7 Billion by 2015. News: Ben Venue to Exit Contract Manufacturing Business. More News ... White Papers. Selecting An Aseptic Fill/Finish Contract Manufacturer: Avoiding the Most Common Mistakes. The Executive Guide to Contract and Chargeback Management: How Pharmaceutical...
• Can North American Manufacturers Thrive in the Challenge of Change?
  of Change?. Can North American manufacturing be saved or in 10 years is everything going to be made in China? Manufacturers are the front line of the global battle for well-paying jobs and the only ammunition that will help us win this war is acceptance and the embrace of change. To be victorious...
• Subtraction by Addition Pays off for Oven Manufacturer
  decided on was a Mitsubishi model 3015 LVP CO2 laser with a 20CF resonator. The unit is rated at 2,000W maximum output power (3,000W pulse peak power) and can deliver a top processing feed rate of 1,180 inches/minute. The 25,000-lb. cutting machine can accept a workpiece up to 10' X 5' in size...
• Case Study: Measurement system retrofit reduces inspection times and gains new business for world-class manufacturer
  leading designers and manufacturers of aerodynamic models used in wind-tunnel tests,” says Craig, “and we have worked with Airbus & The Aircraft Research Association in Bedford for a number of years.” . This world-class reputation helped the firm win its first significant contract in the US, in early...
• Custom Engineered Container Dumping Solutions (.pdf)
  A leading contract packager and manufacturer of food ingredients contacted Material Transfer, requiring container dumpers to empty containers of brownie and cake mixes into hoppers which fed existing packaging equipment. The new dumpers needed to accept containers loaded via pallet jack at floor...
• Pathway to Continuous Improvement
  : Companies are still struggling with on-time delivery. 60% of respondents say top management sees manufacturing as a cost center. About 40% of the equipment at many plants is over 10 years old and is manually operated. Elements in the operational excellence toolkit, such as Quality by Design, Process...
• 2006 Job Satisfaction and Salary Survey: Are You Boxed In?
  , and the competition for top specialists is fiercer than ever. At the same time, wholesale layoffs continue, and U.S. jobs are steadily trickling overseas. Manufacturers are taking a pragmatic approach, with many assuming that new hires will only stay for three to five years. But while they re there, employers...
• Precision moves with pint-sized motors
  closed-loop systems (bottom). Flexures that have been wire-EDMed into a stage are visible in this view of a device from Mad City Labs Inc. (top) Manufacturers can etch flexures to give stages movement in just one direction or in both X and Y. In the latter case the motion controller may use...
• Weigh the Risks in Outsourcing Decisions
  Nevertheless, top-ten sponsor/CMOs actively trade among each other based on expertise rather than pure capacity. "The money maker for us is not machine time but proprietary technologies," says PCS president Pete Stevenson. "That's the major difference between us and pure-play CMOs, who measure...

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