...Date: April 24th, 2014 Course: Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2013-2014 “On our way to Sustainable Green Printing” “On our way to Sustainable Green Printing” Preface This assignment is about a case study, which means the description of a situation regarding the development of a sustainable business. The case tells a story of how this particular business ended up where it is today. The context of this assignment will give a description of a situation regarding the development of a sustainable business. This case tells the story of how “Andi Druk” started evolving in sustainability and how the company is doing nowadays. Below I will describe the relevant information about the sustainable company. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Section 1: Industry Background 5 1.1 Printing Industry background 5 1.2 Innovation in the printing industry 6 1.4 Government Regulation 7 1.5 Firm size 8 1.6 Trends 8 1.7 Sustainability in the printing industry 9 1.7.1 Cradle- to-cradle and fully sustainable 10 1.8 Opportunities and Challenges for the Sustainability Printing industry 12 1.8.1 Opportunities 12 1.8.2 Challenges 12 Section 2: Company Background 13 2.1 Company Overview 13 2.2 Environment 14 2.3 Services 15 Section 3: Competitors 17 Conclusion 18 Reference 20 Appendix 1: 22 Interview 26 Introduction “Andi Druk” is a printing industry, situated in Maastricht, The Netherland. The company is established on the market for almost 80...
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...and feelings. Hence many people don’t feel comfortable, but limited by drawing in just two dimensions. Besides the restrictions of 2D drawing many creative women would rather develop a new, individual piece of jewelry on their own than just to buy a finished product. Wearing their own creations women could express themselves in a better way. Currently alternatives for 3d printing require a high level of technical knowhow and they are very expensive and therefore not accessible to many people. Solutions Possible Solutions could be provided for instance by 3D Printers. In the past they used to be very expensive, but prices have decreased very quickly and technology has made good advances in this research area. Due to these developments experts expect a creativity revolution through 3D printing in the very near future. 3D printing is also very fast and accurate. But one possible disadvantage of 3D printing could be the somehow distanced relationship to the printings. Artists often want to connect with their art in a special way and this is not always ensured working just in front of a display. Besides 3D Printing it is also possible to be creative in three dimensions with modeling clay. Clay is different than other materials because it never hardens, this is in one way an advantage, for example if small kids just want to play with their hands, but it can also being disadvantageous, if an artist wants his art to be solid and long-lasting. Finally of...
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...3D Printing: Manufacturing Randall Ballard, Jerry Boggs, Bol Bol, and Jiro Newton DeVry University LAS 432 Professor Lynn Wallace April 19, 2014 Table of Contents I. 3D Printing: Manufacturing – Randall, Jerry, Bol, and Jiro 4 II. How 3D Printing Works – Randall 4 a. 3D Printing or Additive Manufacturing? 5 b. Commercial Manufacturing 5 III. The Historical Development and Context of the Technology – Randall 6 c. Chuck Hall 6 i. Time line. 7 d. A 3D Printer in Every Home 7 IV. How New is the Technology? – Jerry 8 e. Is it Really Printing? 8 V. The Technology’s Potential to Disrupt Industries – Jerry 9 VI. Communicating With the 3D Printer – Jerry 9 f. The Process 10 ii. The 8-step process. 10 g. Reducing the Development Time 11 VII. Economic Considerations – Jerry 11 h. Rapid Prototyping 12 i. What Is the ROI? 12 j. Manufacturing Processes 13 iii. Economies of scale. 13 k. The Level of Interest 14 iv. Digitizing creative content. 14 v. Is it your creation? 15 l. Localization vs. Outsourcing 15 VIII. The Psychological Perspective & Social Effect – Jerry 16 m. A Paradigm Shift...
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...such as deadlines and schedules so we had to be award of the amount of time we spend on each task as a group. Communication skills are a very important way to communicate within a group. Within our group we have done many meetings in a classroom a total of 10. In these meetings we spoke about how far everyone has got on their task they were given, because all tasks were broken up into groups. Problem solving is important because it is very likely for anything to go wrong so we will need a solution or a back up plan. For example while we were doing the assemblies we had a problem of the video not playing in both halls at the same time. That’s why on the Friday 8th February 2013 we made sure we had another video for the year 11. Negotiating is any activity that influences another person. We as a group had to negotiate with Mrs Jarvis to give us prices on printing, and how much we needed to print for the event. For instance we had a variety of prices for the posters, such as different types of paper and different quality of colour printing. Recourse management is the way you use recourses such as financial, human skills, production, IT etc. It is important to balance it all out because they you know you are not going over your limit for certain things. We as a group for the Safer Internet day we had to make sure that we have enough money to print out posters, leaflets, worksheets for lesson plans and other activities. While we were printing things using Mrs Jarvis’ advice...
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...unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence. It is a periodical publication containing news. It can also be describe as a printed media usually distributed weekly or daily in from of folded book of papers. The most important or interesting news will be displayed on the front page of the publication. Newspaper may also include advertisement, opinions, entertainment and other general interest news. The following are the processes involved in producing a newspaper. 1. BRAINSTORMING OR CONCEPTUALIZATION: This is a process where ideas are brought forth. It involve a spontaneous group discussion which involved the editors and reporters to contribute their ideas and solutions to problem. Editor and reporters meet discuss and resolve on a beats to cover. 2. ASSIGNING BEAT: This is the area where a reporter are allocated area to cover. Beat could be marriage, convocation ceremony,, political rally, child dedication football match etc. The second step in printing a newspaper is to collect enough reports and correspondents do a lot of research work in order to gather the facts. They also find out which news is important and worth reporting and which information is important and worth reporting and which information can be left out. A newspaper employs various kinds of reporters. Each reporter has a particular beat he/she cover and after a beat is assigned to a reporter, he goes to his specified beat, cover the event or happening...
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...IMPACT OF 3D PRINTING ON THE FIELD OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Name: Institution: Introduction 3D printing is the procedure of creating an objective material from a three-dimensional digital replica. Characteristically, this is done by laying down vast succeeding thin layers of a material (3-D printing: additive manufacturing, 2015). To print a 3D object, the manufacturer needs to employ a 3D computer-aided design. Consequently, this report paper shall attempt to look at the impact of 3D printing on the field of mechanical engineering during the next couple of years. Body Engineering practice is the technological activities that guarantee an organization or a company create products of the needed eminence as anticipated (ISPE Good Practice Guide: Good Engineering Practice, 2015). In the current periods, 3D printing has truly started to attract the thoughts of the people. 3D printings are also prompting an alteration concerning the procedures in which diminutive businesses, as well as industry heavyweights, construct and plan their products. Consequently, this is beginning to be reflected in the present engineering fields. 3D printing makes it probable to create objects with many multifaceted structures than conventional manufacturing techniques. Thus, in the field of mechanical...
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...Title Thesis: The different language styles used by the oppressed black community help to further enhance their message. Credibility Both of these texts are written in first person. This is a very important detail because it helps to establish credibility among the audience. In Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People, the author says, “The first step which will mark our certain advancement as a People, will be our Declaration of Independence from all aid except from God and our own souls” (1847, p.167). By being able to use first person in this report, the authors show that they are a part of the black community. This would show that they know what they are talking about because they have experienced firsthand the oppressions...
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... 430 – Final Project March 14, 2016 a) Printing books in a print shop, especially large quantities of a single book, is a process. A process is an ongoing day-‐to-‐day repetitive set of activities the print shop performs when producing its products. How are these customized eBooks different from a standard printing process? What characteristics make these customized eBooks a project? The difference between these customized eBooks and other standard printing process is the specifications they require. Each eBook goes through different production process because it has a unique content, layout, and cover design. Another attribute of these books is that the professor customizes each book for each semester. In other words, these books can’t be used for the next semester. So, this is why printing eBooks is considered project. Additionally, beside the...
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...Printing press is a machine that transfers lettering or images with the contact of various forms of inked surfaces onto papers or similar kind of material into different ways. Printing press is used for printing many copies of a text on papers to form a book or similar kinds of reading material. Around 1446 several print masters were on the process creating effective technology of printing with movable metal type. The rapid cultural change in Europe fueled a growing need for the rapid and cheap production of written documents. A number of people had previously attempted to make a metal type movable printing press, but it was not until a method was invented for producing metal type in large quantities that printing with movable type became economically practicable. Johannes Gutenberg, the son of a noble family of Mainz, Germany was the first person to demonstrate the practicability of movable type printing machine. Gutenberg, who was a stonecutter and goldsmith, invented an alloy of lead, tin and antinomy that would melt at low temperature, cast well in the die, and is durable in the press (Kreis, 2011). As long as the metal in which they were cast did not wear down, it was possible to use and reuse the separate pieces of type, simply by arranging them in the desired order. The innovation of type from an alloy was durable and produced high quality printed books and was suitable for printing than the clay, wooden or bronze types which were already invented in East Asia. The mirror...
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...Think how exciting it would be to discover a book that told all about the family of your great-great-grandmother or grandfather, or anyone else in your family line. This book is a chance for you to make such a discovery possible for your descendants. Fill it in, add pages of your own, and then pass it on to your children. They’ll probably put it in a box and then, in 100 years or so, a great-great-grandchild will rediscover the book to his or her great delight. Use these paragraphs to write an introduction for the book, or delete them if you want. Think how exciting it would be to discover a book that told all about the family of your great-great-grandmother or grandfather, or anyone else in your family line. This book is a chance for you to make such a discovery possible for your descendants. Fill it in, add pages of your own, and then pass it on to your children. They’ll probably put it in a box and then, in 100 years or so, a great-great-grandchild will rediscover the book to his or her great delight. Use these paragraphs to write an introduction for the book, or delete them if you want. book book family family my my Contents Introduction (message from the author) Page 0 about my family Family Tree Page 0 Family Story Page 0 Father’s Story Page 0 Mother’s Story Page 0 My Parents’ Courtship and Marriage Page 0 My Brothers and Sisters Page 0 Medical History Page 0 Family Traditions Page 0 Military Service Page 0 Heirlooms Page 0 special events:...
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...Dr. Carlos S. Lanting College Casaul General Hospital 16 Tandang Sora Avenue, Sangandaan, Novaliches Quezon City (02) 938-7782/938-7789/ (02) 939-7229 College of Business Administration Marketing Plan “CLICK ADS” Submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements in Principles of Marketing Presented by: Beriña, Ivan Jan Erick C. Cuarez, Hazel D. Dulay, Erika M. Ferrer, Juvenal Mark I. Reyes, Darlene Joy B. BA – 12A TABLE OF CONTENTS APPROVAL SHEET ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TITILE PAGE II – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY III – CURRENT SITUATION – MACROENVIRONMENT IV – CURRENT SITUATION – MARKET ANALYSIS V – CURRENT SITUATION – CONSUMER ANALYSIS VI – CURRENT SITUATION – INTERNAL VII – SUMMARY OF SITUATION ANALYSIS VIII – MARKETING RESEARCH VIV – MARKETING STRATEGY – PRODUCT X – MARKETING STRATEGY – SEGMENTED MARKETING ACTIONS AND MARKET SHARE OBJECTIVES XI – MARKETING STRATEGY – PRICE XII – MARKETING STRATEGY – PROMOTION XIII – MARKETING STRATEGY – DISTRIBUTION XIV – IMPLEMENTATION XV – FINANCIAL SUMMARY XVI – SCENARIOS XVII – APPENDIX APPROVAL SHEET Fulfilling the requirement in Marketing – I. This is to certify that the Marketing Plan prepared by the following students: Beriña, Ivan Jan Erick C. Cuarez, Hazel D. Dulay, Erika M. Ferrer, Juvenal Mark I. Ramos, Henri B. Reyes, Darlene Joy B., entitled “CLICK ADS” has been approved by our professor as a satisfactory completion of her...
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...reason for the emergence at that particular time and the impact and the consequences of the emergence of that particular technology play important roles in relating the context. This paper focuses on two major expanding technologies; mobile phones and 3D printing. 1.1. Introduction to 3D printing Three dimensional printing â_œemploys an additive manufacturing process whereby products are built on a layer-by-layer basis, through a series of cross-sectional slicesâ__ (Berman, 2012, para.2). 3D printing is compromised of various other technologies and the commonly used software is the Computer aided design also known as CAD. 3D printing is a developing concept that is yet to bring a lot of new creations into the world of technology. 1.2. Introduction to Mobile phones Mobile phone is a mobile device traditionally used to make and receive calls. There are many categories in mobile phones. For example, smartphone is â_œa category of mobile phones that read email, take pictures, and surf the internet in addition to making and receiving callsâ__ (Flew & Smith, 2011, p.72). Because of the advancement of the mobile phone technology, majority of the population use them in their day to day activities and mobile phones play a vital part in peopleâ_™s lives. 1.3. General conclusion Page 2 of 7 3D printing and mobile phone technology are two major landmarks in this mechanical world and their reason for emergence and the consequences of...
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...to be one of the most important books in the history of medicine, The Fabric of the Human Body (1543). It was a complete map of the human body, complete with life like illustrations. It showed many of Galen’s ideas to be wrong, and soon Vesalius’ view of anatomy (the study of the structure of the body) became accepted by doctors and surgeons. 1. What is anatomy? 2. Why was Vesalius’ Fabric of the Human Body so important? Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. His great grandfather and grandfather had been doctors and his father an apothecary (chemist). Vesalius studied medicine at several European universities, and soon gained a reputation as a good anatomist, gaining a good knowledge of the structure of the body by examining skeletons. 3. When and where was Andreas Vesalius born? 4. How could his family background have influenced his decision to study medicine? 5. In which area of medicine did Vesalius excel? The Church now allowed human dissection, but did not allow bodies to be boiled up to produce skeletons. Vesalius desperately wanted to examine the human skeleton. The only way he could do this was to wait until the bodies of hung criminals had decomposed on the gallows. When the bones were bare he would remove the bodies and smuggle them back into town to study them. 6. What was the Church’s position on dissection at this time? 7. How did Veslius secure human skeletons for study? Vesalius was so successful that he became...
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...Living in the Information Age SOS-110-OL009 January 2015 There are many trends emerging today that will have an impact on our future. No one knows exactly what the future will bring, we as humans are only capable of making predictions. One of the most prominent areas seen affected by emerging trends in the past and present is the healthcare field. Various aspects of healthcare will continue to grow and shape our future including: the nursing workforce, innovative medical technology, etc. As healthcare needs continue rise and the population ages, I believe a shortage in nursing may be imminent based on these subsequent rationales that are discussed. On March 23, 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. Lanthrop and Hodnicki stated in their article, “It is the most expansive healthcare reform legislation in the United States (US) since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965” (Lathrop, 2014). The healthcare reform was put into legislation to decrease the number of uninsured Americans by providing accessible, affordable, quality healthcare. In 2011, it was predicted that the number of Americans uninsured would be reduced by more than half when the Act is fully implemented (Rosenbaum, 2011). “The law will result in health insurance coverage for about 94% of the American population, reducing the uninsured by 31 million people” (Rosenbaum, 2011). With the expanded access to health insurance provided by this law, more and more people...
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...Resources Human Resources The use of our human resources is essential in the process of our promotional campaign for FAME as it’s important that we make the best use of the people involved whilst also making sure they have the necessary skills required in order to achieve the best result and meet our aims and objectives for the musical. The human resources that are available for us to use include ourselves who are conducting the promotional campaign as well as a number of teachers and students which are a part of FAME and media students. This is very helpful for the promotional campaign it means that we will not have to spend money on the use of other expertise as the students and teachers will be doing it free of charge as they are within the school. This would then also help us to achieve our objective which is to spend within our budget of £250. As we are conducting the promotional campaign for the FAME school musical, it is necessary that we have the skills required to do so. As a team we all possess team working skills, as we have the ability to work as part of a group with one another, all sharing ideas and working together in order to achieve the overall aim for FAME which is ‘To showcase the talents of the students of SSSO, by entertaining an audience which includes students, teachers and staff’. As a team we are willing to help one another out in order to complete a task as we are required to work towards a coordinated campaign which involves different elements...
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