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Corning Invented Optical Cable, but New Tools Keep it in the Lead

Corning's been around for more than 150 years. Some 30 years ago it invented optical cable and thus an entire industry. Since, the industry has grown increasingly global and fiercely competitive. Corning's Telecom Division, which produces the optical cable, has found itself in a constantly, rapidly changing mix of technology, processes and machinery. And a need to find sources which will meet their stringent quality, precision and delivery needs—and keep the bottom line low. Read More


Linking Buyers & Suppliers with Little More than a Keystroke

Finding the right suppliers can be a time-consuming, frustrating task, yet it is critical to the success of your company. So what do you do? Hire additional staff? Take your chances by just picking from a directory or the Yellow Pages? Or maybe you use a tool that can be accessed right from your desktop.
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Time-to-Market the Key for Radical Bike Designer

In the highly competitive custom bike market, always having something fresh a new twist on gearing or braking and getting that advantage to market quickly are critical to growth and survival. Something really new is a competitive advantage only for as long as you alone have it. Read More


Virtual Product Development? Today, Why Not?

You have an idea for a new product that you feel will catch on. You make some sketches. They look pretty good. But you don't have (or really want) the resources to design, make, inventory and sell the product. What do you do? Forget about it? No, you make it "virtually". Read More


What One Buyer Did When They Lost a Critical Supplier and Needed To Get Parts Made - Quick

Manufacturing start-ups share a number of common characteristics: a dream, imagination, energy, hope. They also share some daunting reality checks: money, customers and suppliers. In essence, how to get this idea from a sketch on paper to a finished part in a customers product. Heres what one small entrepreneur is doing to address at least one major hurdle finding good, quality suppliers. Read More


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