Creganna expands MA facility with specialty needle design and manufacturing services.
Creganna, an Ireland-based medical device manufacturer, has doubled the size of its Marlborough, MA manufacturing facility, enabling it to now offer specialized contract design and manufacturing for companies that develop and market specialty needles. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Known for its micro tubing for minimally invasive catheter...

Good manufacturing practices should not be "skin deep".
Quality control in manufacturing, and the lack thereof, is being written about more and more, and is becoming increasingly more obfuscated. On February 5, 2008, an Associated Press wire story highlighted "the lack thereof" in pharmaceutical quality control, revealing the incidence of blue flecks that were found...

ISQED'08 to Zoom In on Nanoscale Design & Manufacturing Issues.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-28 February 2008-ISQED'08 to Zoom In on Nanoscale Design & Manufacturing Issues(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The 9th annual International Symposium and Exhibitions on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED 08) announced keynote speeches by industry leaders from Cadence, IBM, Mentor, Microsoft, and Synopsys. The upcoming...

Grant to help boost training in manufacturing sector.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard The Lane Workforce Partnership has received a $275,000 state grant to address shortages of skilled manufacturing workers and encourage students and young workers to enter into the manufacturing sector. Robin Onaclea, business services coordinator for the Workforce Partnership, said the...

Manufacturing output dips in Nov.
Byline: EDU LOPEZ The output of the manufacturing industry was slightly down by 0.8 percent in November 2007, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI) of the National Statistics Office (NSO). NSO is headed by Administrator Carmelita N....

RP must revitalize manufacturing & industry - Loren.
Sen. Loren Legarda said yesterday that the Philippines cannot be forever dependent on the incomes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to prop up the national economy, saying the country must revitalize its manufacturing and industrial sectors to sustain growth. Legarda issued the statement as she took note...

Acceleron Expands Laboratory and Manufacturing Space.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-30 June 2008-Acceleron Expands Laboratory and Manufacturing Space(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Acceleron Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics that modulate the growth of tissues including bone and muscle, recently announced that as part of its rapid growth and expansion it is increasing...

Camstar Bolsters Manufacturing Intelligence Solution for SAP.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-12 February 2008-Camstar Bolsters Manufacturing Intelligence Solution for SAP(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Camstar Systems, a provider of enterprise manufacturing and quality systems and a SAP Software Partner, announced the release of its eDHR Intelligence version 4.2 application for Medical Device manufacturers. ...

Sound Surgical Technologies to Bring Disposable Product Manufacturing Back to the USA.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-6 July 2008-Sound Surgical Technologies to Bring Disposable Product Manufacturing Back to the USA(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Sound Surgical Technologies, developer of the Vaser Lipo System, announced that all disposable products will be designed and manufactured in the United States. Sound...

Oco Aims Packaged BI Solutions at Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-12 February 2008-Oco Aims Packaged BI Solutions at Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Oco, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of business intelligence (BI) and data integration solutions, announced that it is introducing a new suite of business intelligence solutions designed to meet the...