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	<description>for Designers, Buyers, &#38; Entrepreneurs</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Castings - Part 1: An Introduction</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/08/06/castings-part-1-an-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/08/06/castings-part-1-an-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Die Casting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inventors/Inventions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Investment Casting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sand Casting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supply Chain Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[baselodge group]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[casting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chicago white metal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[investment casting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[orlite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sand casting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Almost anything your mind can conceive of that requires a product to be cast or formed can be manufactured. We will save a discussion of plastics and other materials for later, but if your design requires a mold or die and a metal casting, you have many options. Your specific application will drive the material, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Design Help for Enclosures and Front Panels</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/06/04/online-design-help-for-enclosures-and-front-panels/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/06/04/online-design-help-for-enclosures-and-front-panels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[AMC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AdvancedTCA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Components]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Embedded Systems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Front Panels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MicroTCA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[XTech&#8217;s online store just got a lot better. Customers can now access a wide array of design resources like drawings and 3D models. In addition, the number of products available for purchase in the online store has increased dramatically.

Do you need an extruded enclosure? A standard front panel? A filler panel? No problem. The types [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XTech &#038; Triple E Make an Impression</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/04/30/xtech-triple-e-make-an-impression/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/04/30/xtech-triple-e-make-an-impression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[AMC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AdvancedTCA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Components]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Embedded Systems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Front Panels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MicroTCA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge Blog.
I&#8217;m sitting at the Boston airport preparing to return to Baselodge Country. I just spent a couple of days with the XTech and Triple E team for the Extrusion Technology Global Sales Meeting in Taunton, MA.
There is no substitute for meeting face-to-face with the people who actually manufacture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring ITAR</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/02/25/exploring-itar/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/02/25/exploring-itar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agency Certifications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Export]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology (IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supply Chain Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artfulsourcing.com/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. companies that develop products and intellectual property (IP) with military and defense applications are not permitted to sell or export that technology outside of the U.S. It is obviously in the national interest to not provide our enemies or potential enemies with weapons or technology that can be used against us or our allies.
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing or Offshoring?</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/02/01/outsourcing-or-offshoring/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2010/02/01/outsourcing-or-offshoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cost Containment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Global Sourcing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology (IT)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supply Chain Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge blog: http://baselodge.com/blog/2010/02/outsourcing-or-offshoring/
I recently read an article that incorrectly defined outsourcing as offshoring. It might be helpful to some readers to review these terms and their proper application.
Outsourcing is the use of resources outside of one&#8217;s own organization to accomplish a business need. These resources could be individuals or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopeful Signs from the Global Computer Market</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/12/07/hopeful-signs-from-the-global-computer-market/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/12/07/hopeful-signs-from-the-global-computer-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Global Sourcing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Original Design Manufacturing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A newly released iSupply study on the global PC and EMS market is analyzed in this article at ventureoutsource.com.  In Q3 2009 Dell dropped to third in PC shipments behind leader HP and the new #2 Acer (Taiwan).
As we all deal with the recession, the article identifies two encouraging signs about the global economy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reliability Cycle: Understanding the Booms and Busts of Reliability in Electronics</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/10/07/the-reliability-cycle-understanding-the-booms-and-busts-of-reliability-in-electronics/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/10/07/the-reliability-cycle-understanding-the-booms-and-busts-of-reliability-in-electronics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Caswell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was written by my colleague Craig Hillman, CEO of DfR Solutions.
The Cycle of Reliability
The Past
Those who interact closely with DfR realize that we proscribe to the theory of the ‘reliability cycle’. The early years of electronics, 1950’s and 1960’s, were disasters for reliability and led to the establishment of the organizations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>xTCA Front-Panel Innovation</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/09/03/xtca-front-panel-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/09/03/xtca-front-panel-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[AMC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AdvancedTCA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Components]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Front Panels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MicroTCA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) out of Randolph, MA has released a video providing an overview of their innovation in xTCA products.
Steve Richardson and Matt Travers discuss how this has been applied to their AdvancedTCA, AMC, MicroTCA, and Ruggedized MicroTCA products.
The link to the video is here.
]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing Large Files with YouSendIt</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/08/10/sharing-large-files-with-yousendit/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/08/10/sharing-large-files-with-yousendit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quoting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RFQs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[data packages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ftp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[large files]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rfq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted in the Baselodge blog.
Thanks to John over at Fedcor Global, I have become a satisfied user of YouSendIt.com, a service that makes sharing large files a snap. Those of us in the manufacturing and sourcing industry have frequent needs to send and receive large files. For years I have used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aluminum Extrusions</title>
		<link>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/05/04/aluminum-extrusions/</link>
		<comments>http://artfulsourcing.com/2009/05/04/aluminum-extrusions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark L. Casey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Contract Manufacturing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Embedded Systems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artfulsourcing.com/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting aspects of my job at Baselodge Group is being able to expand my knowledge of different industries and manufacturing solutions. There is something energizing about learning. At the end of 2008 Baselodge Group signed on to represent Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) based in Randolph, MA.
X-Tech is a manufacturer of aluminum extrusions, [...]]]></description>
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