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CAMLS Seminar Series |
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Spring 2008
Fall
2007
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CAMLS in the News! |
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"UTSA
manufacturing center helps businesses"
Article
appears in UTSA Today.
Friday,
April 24, 2009.
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"Manufacturing
center helping local companies lean
out recession"
Article
appears in the San Antonio Business
Journal.
Friday,
April 10, 2009.
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"UTSA
manufacturing center awarded $375,000"
UTSA
Press Release appearing in EurekAlert!
Wednesday,
December 5, 2007.
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"UTSA
new center for manufacturing awarded
$500,000"
UTSA
Press Release appearing in EurekAlert!
Monday,
November 12, 2007.
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"UTSA
awarded defense grant in
manufacturing-engineering research"
Article
appears in the San Antonio Business Journal.
Monday,
November 12, 2007.
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The Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean
Systems has recently received two major
federal grants.
These prestigious awards total $874,338. The
funds will be used to equip both the
Flexible Manufacturing and Lean Systems (FMLS)
lab and the Manufacturing Systems and
Automation (MSA) lab with state-of-the-art
manufacturing equipment, software, and
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Instrumentation
for Research and Education in Advanced
Manufacturing and Enterprise Systems,
- PI: Dr. Frank Chen (Co-PI: Dr. Can
Saygin), $499,856, Army Research
Office and Air Force Office of
Scientific Research FY 2007 DoD
Infrastructure Support Program, ARO
BAA:W911NF-07-R-0002, Proposal No.
52711-RT-ISP, 09/2007-08/2008.
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MRI:
Acquisition of An Automated Assembly
System and RFID Equipment for Research
and Education in Advanced manufacturing,
PI: Dr. Can Saygin (Co-PI: Dr.
Frank Chen), $374,482, National
Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI-MRI
Program (NSF
Award No.: 0722923),
08/01/2007 - 07/31/2010.
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Presentations |
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"Lean
Enterprise Transformation: The
imperative for industrial change"
Presented
by Dr. Cory R. A. Hallam
December
5, 2007
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"Cyber-enabled
Lean Manufacturing"
Presented
by
Dr. Hung-da Wan
March 5, 2008
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Articles on Lean and the Economy |
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"Lean
Factories Find It Hard to Cut Jobs Even
in a Slump"
Article
Appears in The Wall Street Journal
By Timothy
Aeppel and Justin Lahart
March 9,
2009
Noting in a front-page story that a
"plant, owned by Cleveland-based Parker
Hannifin Corp., has become so lean over
the past decade that many assembly lines
run with only a handful of highly
trained workers," the Wall Street
Journal (3/9, A1, Aeppel, Lahart)
reports that "while mass layoffs have
driven the U.S. unemployment rate to its
highest in 26 years, Parker and other
companies like it are responding to the
slump in more surgical ways, mainly by
cutting hours and shedding temporary
workers." The Journal notes that, "to
varying degrees, this is happening at
thousands of other large and small
factories across the U.S." Such
"selective cuts help explain a curiosity
of this recession." While "the
manufacturing sector is suffering a
sharp contraction and has had to slash
many jobs," fewer positions have been
cut "than would be expected given the
depth of the slump."
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