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Medtronic to Cut About 1,100 Jobs: By Susan Kelly CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc MDT on Tuesday said it would eliminate about 1,100 jobs this year, or almost 3 percent of its work force, in businesses whose growth has slowed, including its flagship heart rhythm device unit. The company...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, HEALTHCARE, Medtronic Inc., medical device, earnings, Chicago, Thomson Reuters Corp., acquisition; News items 2008-05-06
Drug Firms Question Investment in UK: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Global drugmakers have started to question their investment in Britain, following a government decision to scrap a 50-year-old drug pricing scheme, the outgoing head of the country's industry body said on Thursday. Nigel Brooksby, president of the Association of the British ...; Tags: Drug Company, Investment, Industry, U.K., Britain, Government, Research & Development, Vertical Industries; News items 2008-04-30
Pharma Is Whacking R&D, Too -- Or Is It?: The variety of woes afflicting Big Pharma have led to a spate of well-publicized layoffs, mostly among sales forces -- 42,000 since the beginning of 2007, according to one count. Yesterday, Cole Werber at the In Vivo Blog highlighted yet another foreboding statistic: Drugmakers are also starting to trim R&D...; Tags: Report, R&D, Industry, Pharmaceutical Company, Werber, PhRMA, Research & Development, Business Operations, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-12
Dynacon, Inc.: Automating Medical Plate Handling and Streaking With SolidWorks: Dynacon, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets automated systems for the medical laboratory and aerospace markets. The company's Lab Automation Group realized the need to upgrade to a more reliable, robust CAD package for designing its InocuLAB series of automated media inoculating and streaking instruments for laboratory processing of urine samples....; Tags: SolidWorks Corp., aerospace, CAD, modeling, software; Case studies
Building Capacity for Eco-efficiency and DfE in the Automotive Parts Manufacturing Sector: As part of a partnership of public and private sector organizations, Five Winds International, Magna International, Industry Canada, Natural Resources Canada, 3M, University of Waterloo and the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association joined together to develop DfE tools for the automotive sector. The overall purpose of the project was to build...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, product development, manufacturing, training, technique, partnership, tool; Case studies

Advanced Drilling, Completion, and Stimulation: As on-going gas production continues to move from shallow and conventional natural gas resources to more complex geology, sustained natural gas supply will increasingly depend on industry?s ingenuity to develop environmentally friendly technologies that simultaneously lower the costs to drill, complete, and stimulate wells. To address these needs, the Office...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, National Energy Technology Laboratory, natural gas, geology, R&D, environment; White papers
Automated Design of Railway Culverts: Italian LUSAS distributor Alhambra srl worked in conjunction with the engineering company Ingegneri Associati srl to automate the modeling and design/checking of railway culvert structures in accordance with Italian bridge loading and reinforced concrete codes of practice. Automating the analysis of culvert structures using the LUSAS scripting facilities produces significant...; Tags: LUSAS, analysis, modeling; Case studies
Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Robots With Dymola: One main objective of the European project REALSIM - Real-time Simulation for Design of Multiphysics Systems - is to enhance tools for efficient real-time simulation, where the multi-domain modeling language Modelica is used as a basis. The systems under consideration contain components with varying model structure, such as Coulomb friction,...; Tags: modeling, robot, tool; Case studies
Integrated Product Development Process for $11B Wireless Provider: An $11B provider of wireless voice and data services requested PRTM's product development expertise as it struggled to overcome growth challenges. Through reorganization, a new product realization group had been established. Faced with a 50% reduction in the organization's capital budget, the group's first priority was to develop an integrated...; Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, PRTM, product development, New Product Development, data service, wireless; Case studies
Benchmarking for Graph Transformation: Model Transformation MT is a key technology in the model-driven development approach of software engineering that provides automated means to capture the evolution of models and mappings between modeling languages. The pattern and rule-based paradigm of graph transformation is considered a very popular approach for specifying such model transformations. While...; Tags: Performance management, IEEE, benchmarking, model-driven development, software engineering, modeling, performance, software; White papers
The Principles of Integrated Product Development: Better customer relationships, frequent communication, and feedback systems lead to better understanding the customer's/user's needs. Customer involvement increases the probability of the product meeting those needs and being successful in the market. Methodologies such as Quality Function Deployment aid in defining customer needs and translating those needs into specific product,...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, Quality Function Deployment; White papers
Research & Development Transformation in the Life Sciences Industry: Arguably the single most critical success factor for the life sciences industry, Research & Development is one of Accenture's highest priorities. Accenture has a range of solutions to help organizations quickly identify the fastest route to high performance. The Life Sciences industry has recognized that now is the time to...; Tags: Research & Development, Accenture Ltd., R&D, high-performance; White papers
Analysis and Simulation Solution From IBM: Adam Opel AG specializes in the development and manufacturing of passenger cars for the General Motor Corporation. An analysis and simulation solution from IBM helped Opel improve its turnaround time by more than 300 percent for large-scale simulations. Computer aided engineering analysis enables Opel to model crash simulations of cars...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, analysis, product development, IBM Corp., manufacturing, computer; White papers
Cyber Threats and the U S Economy: The Internet has proven to be an engine that is driving a revolution in the way individuals and organizations conduct business. Internet-based electronic commerce is growing rapidly and promises economic growth that would be difficult using any other means. Capitalizing on e-commerce opportunities, however, brings a new set of risks-risks...; Tags: SECURITY, Carnegie-Mellon University, network attack, cybersecurity, R&D, Internet, monitoring, e-business, training, network; Case studies
The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers: This article explains that The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers has been designed to meet your needs. Learn how to better understand and evaluate direct marketing statistics to make truly informed decisions about your critical marketing practices. Read on to know more.; Tags: Research & Development, Marketing research, modeling, direct marketing, marketing; White papers
"The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers: This article explains that The DMA Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers has been designed to meet your needs. Learn how to better understand and evaluate direct marketing statistics to make truly informed decisions about your critical marketing practices. Read on to know more.; Tags: Research & Development, Marketing research, modeling, direct marketing, marketing; White papers
Utilimaster Corporation :Delivering Commercial Vehicles Ahead of Schedule With SolidWorks: As a leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles, Utilimaster Corporation develops a variety of custom-designed vans and trucks. For many years, the company utilized 2D design tools, but the design team became dissatisfied with its 2D tools because they did not provide capabilities for creating detailed assembly and exploded view drawings,...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SolidWorks Corp., 2D, modeling, 3D, tool, manufacturing, team; Case studies
Weldon Technologies, Inc.: Delivering Configurable Warning Lights With SolidWorks: Weldon Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of illuminating devices and electrical control systems for specialty vehicles, recognized the need to streamline its design process to solidify its technical leadership position in the specialty lighting market. Specifically, the company needed to deploy parametric optical design and assembly configurations to introduce a...; Tags: SolidWorks Corp., modeling, 3D, leadership; Case studies
Sterling Chemicals: This case study is about Sterling Chemicals, which produces petrochemicals, acrylic fibers and pulp chemicals, and provides large-scale chlorine dioxide generators to the pulp and paper industry. Its primary petrochemical facility is in Texas City, Texas, where it produces styrene, acrylonitrile, acetic acid, plasticizers, methanol and sodium cyanide. CATSCAN provides...; Tags: Performance management, chemicals, software modeling, performance monitoring, dashboard, modeling, fiber, performance, industry, tool, software; Case studies
Keeping Missiles on Target With PV-WAVE and IMSL: This paper discusses about Aircraft manufacturing in Defense sector. Coleman Research Corp. uses Visual Numerics' PV-WAVE to build an infrared sensor model and a signal/image processing test environment called the Passive Sensor Workbench, which is an important tool used for our national defense. The design and evaluation of modern weapons...; Tags: Visual Numerics, image processing, aircraft, modeling, environment, tool; Case studies