Impediments to Timely Delivery of New Products at an Industrial Products Firm

Impediments to Timely Delivery of New Products at an Industrial Products Firm

To identify and discuss sources of delay in the new product development process at an industrial products firm, data were collected during 11 bi-weekly project review meetings at which 42 different projects were discussed. The highest priority projects were designs for a new venture into European markets. It was suggested that manager selection, vendor monitoring, attention to physical engineer...

Industrial Coatings Products Guide

Impediments to timely diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.

The purpose of this study was to identify early patterns of care for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a cohort of African-American patients and their caregivers presenting at an inner city clinic and a suburban memory assessment clinic. Caregivers (N=79) of patients diagnosed with probable AD were interviewed. Data were collected about the delay from noticing first AD signs until recognition that a ...

Towards industrial products from microalgae

Microalgae show an enormous potential as sustainable feedstock for numerous bioproducts. The current work analyzes the feasibility of business cases for different markets of products from microalgae. We perform a techno-economic evaluation of the whole process chain including cultivation, biorefinery and market exploitation for a 100 hectares facility in six locations. Our projections show a cu...

BEM: Opening the New Frontiers in the Industrial Products Design

Thanks to the advances in numerical analysis achieved in the last several years, BEM became a powerful numerical technique for the industrial products design. Until recent time this technique has been recognized in a praxis as a technique offering from one side some excellent features (2D instead of 3D discretization, treatment of the open-boundary problems, etc.), but from the other side havin...