by Jason Post | Apr 9, 2018 | Product Development Step By Step
A bill of materials, or BOM, is a detailed list of the basic materials, parts, and components needed to manufacture and assemble your product. It also may contain instructions for purchasing and using these materials. Think of a bill of materials as the recipe and...
by Jason Post | Feb 20, 2018 | Injection Molding
The Steel of Plastics: Polycarbonate In this installment of our plastics series, we discuss polycarbonate, or PC. Although the thermoplastics we’ve covered to this point have their gifts and talents, you’re not likely to hear “Polyethylene saved my life!”...
by Jason Post | Feb 12, 2018 | Manufacturing Design, Manufacturing Step By Step, Product Design
When it comes to your BOM, sometimes you have to get granular, and knowing the difference between the following two types will be crucial to a successful manufacturing process. Engineering Bill of Materials, or EBOM An engineering bill of materials is a list of all of...
by Jason Post | Feb 7, 2018 | Plastics Market
Here’s this months State of the Market for Plastic Prices, February 2018. I am going to keep this one even shorter and sweeter than last months. Also including as many of the announcements as I can so that you have them to forward to customers if you need them....
by Jason Post | Jan 22, 2018 | Injection Molding
Nylon: A Material with Legs In a time when it was still scandalous for women to wear pants and bare legs were unthinkable,nylon came to the rescue as an alternative to silk and woolens. Developed by DuPont in the mid-1930s and exhibited at the New York World’s...
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