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Companies serious about Speed to Market require good prototype and short run suppliers to support the effort. Production suppliers have a production mindset and are geared for production; it is difficult to cross the boundaries between the prototype and production worlds. Clinkenbeard has streamlined the prototyping process, from initial contact for quotation to shipping and tracking the package to your door. We eat sleep breathe the flexibility necessary to make things happen quickly. This includes taking HOT orders which change our personal and work schedules daily, implementing engineering changes throughout our business and manufacturing processes, and finding a way to get parts to your door Monday morning when they were just finished Sunday night. Believe it or not, we were just discussing parts which will be done this Sunday night, and need to take a trip to be delivered by 7AM Monday morning 4 states away. We are often involved in projects which Clinkenbeard is the dual source – to be sure that our customer has parts one way or another. Dual sourcing parts is an expensive insurance policy; companies who engage in this type of activity are very serious about Speed to Market.

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Congressman Don Manzullo (R-IL) today joined dozens of his colleagues and
thousands of Americans on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for a news conference
to protest Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care.

The House is scheduled to vote Saturday on Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill,
which would raise taxes $730 billion on Americans, cost 5 million more jobs,
threaten the health insurance of 114 million Americans, and spend more than $1
trillion.

Manzullo supports an alternative Republican bill that the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office states would reduce health insurance premiums up to
10 percent and cut the deficit by $68 billion without raising taxes and without
threatening the health insurance of millions of Americans.

watch Manzullo’s speech on the steps of the Capitol this afternoon.

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Clinkenbeard process produces sand molds, cores for production castings FAST.

A case study in The Free Library titled, “Prototyping process produces sand molds, cores for production castings” explains how this process saves the customer significant time and achieves significant speed to market metrics.

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Clinkenbeard’s Fasterestest Blog addresses two key audiences:

1. The Rockford business, political, economic development, manufacturing, and aerospace-related communities;

2.  All professionals who wish to engage in a forum that focuses on any issues of “speed to market” as they relate to all areas in the product development cycle in relationship to metal casting, rapid manufacturing and rapid prototyping.

It is true that these key audiences are similar in scope to our other social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, and our Fasterestest Group on Linkedin), but this blog allows readers a forum to present more in-depth comments and more detailed lead topics. It is also the social media site where we have found that most Rockford-area business and economic conversation takes place.  So, we thought we’d perpetuate that with this mission statement.

With respect to our slogan, Fasterestest,” that’s simple: we operate under a speed strategy that creates a healthy sense of urgency in our workplace and allows us to deliver some of the “shorterestest” lead times on Earth for the manufacture of our customers’ products and prototypes.

So, please, join, participate, learn, teach and enjoy this site!  It’s ours as much as it is yours.

The Staff of Clinkenbeard

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We are very pleased to promote other blogs when their work is of such good value. Got a few minutes. Read Manufacturing 2.0 on the Rockford Register Star’s website.

Here, Rock River Valley manufacturing experts discuss the many facets of manufacturing: technology, education, training, events, people and any other aspects of manufacturing activity occurring now or planned for the near future.

This is a critical part of our economic community. Use this blog to get the word out and solicit feedback on local and global manufacturing. Readers to the blog hope to better engage employers, employees and our future work force and increase their understanding of manufacturing now.

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Hurdles which prevent speed to market; purchasing requisition and fund allocation.

At Clinkenbeard we turn requests for quotation around in 24 hours or less. As we go about our daily business quoting work for customers, it is not difficult to identify hurdles which can prevent successful speed to market during this stage in the process.
(Indeed, the whole process must be streamlined to eliminate bottlenecks which stall the process of prototype part procurement. One of those potential bottlenecks we will address now.)

One common reason for delay in this process comes during the stage of obtaining “signatures” or approval for funds to purchase initial prototype hardware. As we make follow-up calls to check status on recent quotations, we speak with purchasing agents who have spent weeks to obtain purchase requisitions and approval to spend funds – only to find the process stymied at this stage in the development.

The purchasing agent then informs the supplier that the quoted delivery date must still be maintained, in spite of the two weeks spent obtaining authorization to spend funds. At this point, stress levels are high and relationships can be damaged. Contingency plans must be put in place to prevent or address these types of internal delays so that the authorization process can be expedited, just as the rest of the process is expedited to procure prototypes quickly.

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A very frank question.

You – our customers, prospects, friends and colleagues – have lots of choices for information these days.

What type of information should we provide that will incentify you to keep returning to this site?

Further, what will compel you to participate and share your expertise with us and this group’s members?

Thanks!

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We all know how important it was for the city of Rockford to have a presence at the Paris Air Show in June. We were proud to be a part of the effort and the team.

Just wanted to let everyone know that Clinkenbeard continues to “carry the message” to the aerospace industry through the trade media, in this instance as a blog post about Rockford by Reg Gustafson on Product Design & Development’s website.

If you’d like to offer any comments about how companies like Clinkenbeard can help extend the reach and frequency of the message we all tried to convey at Paris, let us know here.

Hmmm. . . The Farnborough International Airshow is only about 10 months away. . .

Thanks everyone! Look forward to hearing from you.

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The RAEDC is a staff of economic development professionals and over 200 private and public sector investors who collaborate to enhance wealth creation in the Rockford Region by marketing the area and helping employers retain and create quality jobs.

Get involved, if you can, or get more involved, if you already are. Remember: it’s our economic development too. http://www.rockfordil.com/

Any thoughts about how to get involved strategically, tactically, programmatically, etc.?

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