Category Archives: Product Design & Development
2012 SME Conference Showcases Bleeding Edge Advanced Manufacturing Technology
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is holding its 2012 Annual Conference right here in downtown Cleveland. MAGNET is proud to be one of the co-sponsors of this event. The conference opened on Saturday, June 2 and concluded, Tuesday, June … Continue reading
MAGNET Ideation Sessions Help Manufacturers “Define, Discover, Develop and Deliver”
By Jim Rundo, Senior Business Consultant, MAGNET “If only we had a way to solve this problem…” “Our company has to introduce some new products soon…” “We are losing business to new competitors…” Most manufacturers have asked one or more … Continue reading
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Conference presentations reveal benefits and challenges of “Open Innovation”
Last week, I attended the CoDev 2012 Conference in San Diego–which had as its focus the topics of Co-Development and Open Innovation. This was the eleventh annual such gathering, sponsored by The Management Roundtable and the Product Development Management Association. … Continue reading
MAGNET Engineer leads sustainability class at Kent State University
MAGNET’s Product Development Manager, Aaron Marshall, has been instructing a graduate level class that runs this semester at Kent State University, located in Kent, Ohio. The goal of the class is to teach students how to come up with ways … Continue reading
SMART Center’s Chris Mathers Visits The Incubator at MAGNET
On Tuesday, January 24, tenants of The Incubator at MAGNET had a networking meeting here in the MAGNET Seminar Room. For this month’s event, they welcomed Chris Mather, Managing Director of the SMART Commercialization Center for Microsystems, located at Lorain … Continue reading
New Innovation Program for Smaller Manufacturers Offers NASA Expertise, Low-Interest Loans
If you’re a manufacturer with less than $50 million in annual revenue, AND you are located in Cleveland or Cuyahoga County, you are eligible to apply for an exciting new program MAGNET announced on January 3, 2012. Subject matter experts … Continue reading
Northeast Ohio Winner of White House Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge
September 22, 2011 (CLEVELAND) – Northeast Ohio is one of 20 regions in the country selected as a winner in the Obama administration’s $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multi-agency competition to support the advancement of high-growth industry … Continue reading
“Driving Growth Through Innovation” with Robert Tucker
This year’s Management Leadership Series is designed to strengthen your organization’s operational talents and decision-making skills with industry experts who will discuss relevant operational and growth-related issues that will help you navigate and succeed in what seems to be constant … Continue reading
MAGNET client Vadxx Energy wins media attention
Vadxx Energy, a client of The Incubator at MAGNET, has been racking up media attention recently. The company’s innovative process produces synthetic crude oil from recycled plastic via a process called thermal depolymerization. Vadxx partnered with the MAGNET Product Design … Continue reading
Engineering Whiskey?! Entrepreneur distills sucess with MAGNET Product Design & Development team
Entrepreneur Tom Lix has a “big idea”: a completely new and dramatically faster way to mature distilled spirits. But to attract venture capital to his startup, he needed to prove the concept. The Incubator at MAGNET helped Lix tap into … Continue reading
