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		<title>Adspecs oil-filled eyeglasses: A vision for the emerging world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another one in the category of products that *really* make a difference in the lives of users. Atomic physicist Joshua Silver has developed “Adspecs”—fluid-filled adjustable eyeglasses—and with his organization, The Centre for Vision in the Developing World, is distributing them to needy people in developing countries around the world. The design is simple: Plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redesigning the coffee cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The betacup is a recently completed competition to re-imagine a coffee cup with reduced environmental impact. As many as 58 million coffee cups are discarded every year in the United States alone, and along with most of them, a sleeve that protects the holder’s hands from scalding. The proposed solutions offer a range of great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/redesigning-the-coffee-cup/</link>
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		<title>BOM management strategies: Four recommendations for better Excel BOMs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently posted a new article on our website that has a number of useful suggestions for companies that use Excel to manage their bills of materials (BOMs). Following these recommendations will set you up for a faster, smoother and cleaner transition when you’re ready to move to an automated BOM management system (yes, full [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/bom-management-strategies-four-recommendations-for-better-excel-boms/</link>
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		<title>Operations management makes its case in the hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the New York Times touts the improvements that hospitals and health systems have made by incorporating some of the classic operations management strategies used in manufacturing facilities and on factory floors. While some healthcare providers are concerned with the emphasis on operations in healthcare, a number of hospitals, doctors, nurses and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two free resources offer a wealth of information for operations, manufacturing and supply chain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether your purview is operations, supply chain management, new product development/new product introduction or executive management, you’ll find information you can use in these two well-established—and newly free—resources. APICS, the Association of Operations Management, has made its APICS Operations Management Body of Knowledge (OMBOK) Framework available to the public, free of charge, for the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/two-free-resources-chock-full-of-operations-manufacturing-and-supply-chain-data/</link>
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		<title>More of a good thing: Extending your product line without inventing a brand new product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marc wrote recently about the motorized bicycle that is the latest addition to the Volkswagen product line and a way for the company to extend its brand into an adjacent market. And while innovation is often at the heart of new product development, it is worth pointing out that building a product line can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/more-of-a-good-thing-extending-your-product-line-without-inventing-a-brand-new-product/</link>
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		<title>Manufacturing success strategies: Use well-crafted agreements to build strong supply chain relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SupplyChainBrain.com offers a summary of a new whitepaper on outsourced manufacturing that focuses on how to develop agreements with supply chain partners that lead to positive relationships and successful results. The whitepaper was written by practitioners and academics from University of Tennessee, Georgia Southern University, Cranfield School of Management and the International Association of Contract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/manufacturing-success-strategies-use-well-crafted-agreements-to-build-strong-supply-chain-relationships/</link>
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		<title>No capacity for capacitors: How world issues impact product development and supplier selection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been talking to people in small and mid-size businesses about their goals for this year and the challenges they face. New product development is on many companies’ list of goals, but blocking it—the supply of parts. I expected to hear about delays from suppliers or contract manufacturers (CMs) who reduced capacity during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/no-capacity-for-capacitors-how-world-issues-impact-product-development-and-supplier-selection/</link>
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		<title>Brand mobility: Volkswagen shows it’s not only about cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Marty Neumeier in his excellent book, The Brand Gap, a brand, simply put, is “a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization.” But all too often, when considering a product roadmap, companies become hemmed in by what they perceive to be their expertise without realizing just how many things can contribute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/brand-mobility-volkswagen-shows-it%e2%80%99s-not-only-about-cars/</link>
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		<title>Ideas wanted: New X Prize offers $10 million for innovative oil spill cleanup solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have an idea for how to clean up the massive amounts of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico? The X Prize Foundation (known for spurring technological advances through the offering of large sums of prize money) has announced a new challenge. The goal: innovative solutions for cleaning up the catastrophic oil spill in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arenasolutions.com/ideas-wanted-new-x-prize-offers-10-million-for-innovative-oil-spill-cleanup-solutions/</link>
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