A show of ideas.Two big questions about the recent NPE NPE NullPointerException (Java) NPE Network Processing Engine NPE National Policy on Education NPE National Plastics Exposition NPE Natural Penis Enlargement NPE Nutrition Program for the Elderly show in Chicago have now been answered. Number one: Would it be a successful show? The answer appears to be yes. Although attendance was only 63,000, down 30% from the 90,000 total at NPE 2000, the overwhelming majority of exhibitors said they were well satisfied with the number of serious customers and "real decision-makers" who came to their booths. A handful said this was their best show ever. Visitors seemed to be in a buying mood--but looking less for products than for "solutions," by which I mean advanced technologies to help them keep up with global competition. Crowds gravitated less to machines molding giveaways and more to those demonstrating novel techniques. The second question: Is it time for a new approach to plastics trade shows? Again, I think the answer is yes. More exhibitors decided to show off ideas rather than just products. For instance, Bayer's Innovation Dome dome, a roof circular or (rarely) elliptical in plan and usually hemispherical in form, placed over a circular, square, oblong, or polygonal space. Domes have been built with a wide variety of outlines and of various materials. used videos and computers to present future technologies and applications. Some 125 visitors used Bayer's electronic digitizer tablets A graphics drawing tablet used for sketching new images or tracing old ones. Also called a "graphics tablet," the user contacts the surface of the device with a wired or wireless pen or puck. Often mistakenly called a mouse, the puck is officially the "tablet cursor. to sketch sketch, a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right. out their own ideas for new plastic products. Machinery giant Milacron opted to leave the heavy hardware at home. Instead visitors saw live, interactive videos of processing demonstrations and sat down for one-on-one discussions with big-name processing experts. President and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. Harold Faig told me the move was not conceived as a cost-cutting effort. The goal was to show processors something more important than a hunk of iron. He wanted to put them face to face with the "solutions" they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . |
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