New GE Center Speeds Color Development.GE Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass., has opened a new facility to help designers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and marketers quickly create custom colors and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. for engineering thermoplastics. The new 4000-sq-ft Customer Innovation Center is located at GE Colorxpress Services in Selkirk, N.Y. It brings under one roof all of the resources needed to select and develop custom colors and produce color chips, pellet pel·let n. 1. A small pill; a pilule. 2. A small rod-shaped or ovoid mass, as of compressed steroid hormones, intended for subcutaneous implantation in body tissues to provide timed release over an extended period of time. samples, and even prototype parts in a single day. The Center expands GE's Colorxpress Services, which include Internet on-line color selection, custom color matching, Micro-Lot matching, and color management programs. For $2500, the Center can develop a custom match and deliver sample chips in 48 hr. The Center's facilities and capabilities include four key areas: * Development consulting helps customers refine the looks and functional specifications of their products through discussions of part design, quality, color and effect development, and tooling. * A constantly growing library of more than 20,000 color chips can be viewed under various standard lighting conditions. (GE will also open two satellite chip stations in Detroit and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in the first quarter of 2001.) * Color blending and matching lab will formulate formulate /for·mu·late/ (for´mu-lat) 1. to state in the form of a formula. 2. to prepare in accordance with a prescribed or specified method. colors and initiate trial runs for customers. Within minutes, a batch of pellets can be ready for molding a set of sample chips on one of the Center's injection machines. * If a customer supplies tooling, sample parts can be shot in the molding machine (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings (Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings. See also: Molding Molding for evaluation of the new custom-designed color. |
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