Graphicast Goes To Canada – Manufacturing Innovations – Medical
October 22, 2010
Graphicast will be exhibiting at the SME show “Manufacturing Innovations – Medical“, November 3 & 4 at the International Centre, Mississauga (Toronto) Canada.
Toronto is the heart of Canada’s medical manufacturing industry. Manufacturing Innovations – Medical is the Nation’s first focused event that connects medical manufacturers with companies that supply the technology and equipment they need to improve quality, innovation and speed to market.
Graphicast is excited to be hopping the boarder for the first time and participating in this show. To register for the show Click Here.
Graphicast Featured in September Issue of Machine Design
September 21, 2010
“Geoff Forester photograph, courtesy of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund”.
Graphicast was the subject of a feature article in the September 9, 2010 issue of Machine Design magazine. The article focuses on how a Graphicast customer solved a product introduction timing problem by working with Graphicast to get his parts manufactured and delivered on time and within budget. You can explore how we work with customers in developing projects through a short video on New Product Development.
Graphicast to Exhibit in Fall Trade Shows
September 20, 2010
Graphicast will again be actively participating in fall trade shows aimed at matching buyers and contract manufacturers. We will be at the Design to Part exhibits in Secaucus, NJ on September 28 and 29, and in Marlborough, MA on November 3 and 4. We will also have a new booth this year, highlighting the various stages of the design and production cycle and how we can help you meet your needs of quality, delivery, and costs. We look forward to seeing you. Bring you ideas, drawings, or prototypes.
Graphicast’s Design and Prototyping Service Continues to Receive National Recognition in Design News
August 27, 2010
“Geoff Forester photograph, courtesy of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund”.
Graphicast’s Design and Rapid Prototyping Service (DRPS) continues to receive national recognition. The most recent issue of the Design News website features our process as the lead article. Unique to other prototyping processes, Graphicast will produce a prototype in our ZA12 alloy with all the features present on a finished, machined castings. This way, our customers can test an exact copy of their machined casting before we even begin to cut the graphite mold! Prototypes such as these confirm design intent and casting performance to ensure the final design meets all the design criteria. Having the finished part design and machining program in place with the prototype shortens the time to produce the mold and first production runs of the machined casting. Our customers and prospects are discovering the value of this service, as we see more new parts going through this prototyping process first.
Prototype Part? Looks Like a Machined Casting.
August 11, 2010
The Recovery Continues at Graphicast
August 9, 2010
“Geoff Forester photograph, courtesy of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund”.
The recovery continues at Graphicast, although we have yet to see a nice straight line to the numbers. Orders in June and July were very strong and our backlog is now up to pre-recession levels. We’ll see if the surge continues, but we see few signs of any backsliding in the trends. The analysis of our orders and shipments indicates that a weak recovery began for us in Dec 2009/Jan 2010.
Check Out MOJO, the manufacturing blog on MFG.com
June 23, 2010
“Geoff Forester photograph, courtesy of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund”.
Many of you are familiar with, or subscribe to MFG.com, the online manufacturing community where Buyers (purchasing and sourcing professionals, engineers, etc.) and Suppliers (contract manufacturers, factories, distributors, job shops, etc.) connect, exchange information and do business. As one of the services to to our community, MFG.com maintains a manufacturing blog, MOJO, where opinions and comments about manufacturing are flowing. Recently, MOJO’s blogger, AJ, came across Graphicast and explored our social media strategy. He felt our use of Social Media could be a model for other manufacturers to follow, as he concluded (and I paraphrase), “Graphicast is a small manufacturer that gets the Web & Social Media. You don’t see that everyday.” Thanks for the review, AJ!
The Mid-Year Economic Assessment – Positive Around the Country
June 15, 2010
“Geoff Forester photograph, courtesy of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund”.
We’re closing in on the end of our fiscal year. This year was about the same as last year from a sales volume standpoint. However, the level of activity and optimism we’re seeing indicates that we should be off to a good start for fiscal year 2011. Here’s a snapshot of views from our sales reps around the country:
“Business is good now. Economy is good and seeing a lot of projects to bid.
I know already that I’m losing some business, so I need to replace that with new business.”
“The pipeline for next year is getting filled with five new die castings, three permanent mold jobs, six new sand castings, and three new powdered metal parts all so far this year. All this work should get me back to fiscal 2008 level. It’s been a roller coaster couple of years but it looks like a nice upswing right now.”
“Customers seem to have a more positive outlook than in the past year and we are seeing orders from customers that have been quiet for some time. It appears that they are willing to consider new ideas and ways to manufacture parts but we are also seeing orders for parts that have been basically stagnant for a long time.”
So there you have it. Real news from real people. I hope the rest of you are seeing similar optimism.
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