Time-Compression Technologies Magazine Archive 2002 (and backfills for previous years)
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Author John Connolly
Source Time Compression Technologies. v6 n4 May, 2001, pp 13-5
Abstract Service bureaus continue to solve design and manufacturing problems with their broad knowledge base. Adapt or perish - that's the cruel choice confronting service bureaus (SBs) as technology, time compression and economics conspire to reduce demand for them. Those in the SB industry report being squeezed from both sides - from customers doing their own designing to commercial molders installing their own RP equipment. Although this sounds threatening, service bureaus will not completely disappear from the manufacturing scene, because the special services and expertise that they possess are critical to any industry. Service bureaus work with such a mix of products that their knowledge base to solve design and manufacturing problems is quite broad; therefore, they do a tremendous amount of consultation on functionality, product ability, material selection and even business. It's not that service bureaus are necessarily smarter, it's just that they have been exposed to more ways of doing things. XX
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