Month: March 2012
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UT CIS adopts aggressive innovation assistance strategy
An organization that has been around nearly 50 years helping Tennessee manufacturers address problems is not forgetting its heritage while also adopting an aggressive innovation assistance strategy. The University of Tennessee’s Center for Industrial Services (UT CIS) was established in 1963 as the Tennessee Industrial Research and Advisory Service. Over the ensuing 49 years, its…
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INFORMS Award
Lehigh University‘s Industrial and Systems Engineering department in collaboration with the Enterprise Systems Center has been named a finalist for the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) UPS George D. Smith Prize. This new award has been created in the spirit of strengthening ties between industry and the schools of higher education…
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With Help from UB TCIE, Mentholatum Boosts Business
BUFFALO, N.Y. — In 2009, the Mentholatum Company faced challenges in meeting targeted production levels of its non-prescription pharmaceutical and health care products. Officials at the Orchard Park headquarters of the global health-and-wellness company needed to improve the capacity and overall effectiveness of the business in a way that would support their strategic plan. With…