The GMBOND[R] sand binder process helps a General Motors foundry ramp up production. (Technology in Action).USER--A General Motors foundry A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies. . OPERATION--The GMBOND process development site will be implemented with the backing of the Casting Emission Reduction Program (CERP CERP Continuing Education Recognition Points CERP Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (United States Army Corp of Engineers; South Florida Water Management District, and other Florida state agencies) ) and multi-million dollars in appropriations from the U.S. Department of Defense. PROBLEMS--General Motors' management and engineering was interested in exploring new binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. technologies that would help ensure the competitiveness of the industry. SOLUTION--The local United Auto Workers The United Auto Workers (UAW), headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union union, Hormel, and representatives from industry groups lobbied Congress for funding to launch a pilot program to help demonstrate the viability of the GMBOND process as a technology that improves the bottom line as well as environmental and worker health performance. BENEFITS--The project will help highlight the cost-effectiveness cost-effectiveness pertaining to cost-effective. cost-effectiveness analysis a comparison of the relative cost-efficiencies of two or more ways of performing a task or achieving an objective. of the GMBOND process as an alternative to traditional binder systems, while also helping to lower Hazardous Air Emissions by up to 95 percent. Hormel Foods Corporation Specialty Products Division 1 Hormel Place, Austin, MN 55912 Tel: 507/437-5658 * Fax: 507/437-5120 E-mail: jdeastman@hormel.com * Web site: www.gmbond.com Contact: Jeremy Eastman Select No. 041 at www.moderncasting.com/info |
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