![]() ![]() On this mid-January day, Pratt and Stewart gave me and OCAST colleague Debbie Cox a tour of their fabrication shop that features 3D printing capabilities along with tools to engineer and create just about any prototype to the specifications sought by manufacturers or inventors. “The EDA i6 grant is basically set up to assist small businesses, inventors, startups and some manufacturers with a working first prototype to be able to get them further along in their product development,” Stewart said. Launched in 2014 the ongoing i6 Challenge has awarded $42 million with $54 million in matching funds that are supporting 88 projects across 36 states, according to the EDA website. The bottle grabber assembly was created as part of a $399,000 grant awarded in 2017 to NPDC by the federal Economic Development Administration through its “i6 Challenge” program. As Debbie Cox from OCAST looks on, Evan Pratt displays a tray of ‘bottle grabbers’ designed and produced by OSU’s New Product Development Center Robert Taylor is NPDC executive director. The New Product Development Center was founded by OSU in 2002 to provide Oklahoma inventors and entrepreneurs with market research, prototype development and grant writing assistance to advance their concepts, said Jessica Stewart, assistant director.Īlong with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), i2E Inc., the Tom Love Innovation Hub at the University of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance, the NPDC is a key element in the Oklahoma Innovation Model that supports Oklahoma’s innovation economy. “So, under a pay-for-service contract, we reverse engineered this bottle grabber assembly and created a 3D-printed prototype for them to test.” “This piece recently became unsupported by the original manufacturer,” Pratt said. The bottle grabber assembly was designed and created at the NPDC lab on a 3D printer to replace an original design and mesh perfectly with the client’s manufacturing process. “What this does is it fits on a conveyer system that is in their bottling system that helps them move and transport bottles from one conveyer system to another,” Pratt said. Pratt was actually showcasing a “bottle grabber” assembly used by a Tulsa area manufacturer to keep the bottle filling and shipping process flowing smoothly. New computer mouse? Fancy salt shaker? Home security device? TULSA – Evan Pratt, a design engineer at the Oklahoma State University – Tulsa campus location of OSU’s New Product Development Center (NPDC), held a small plastic device in front of me for inspection and challenged me to guess its purpose. ![]() Not our fault 2.5 Posted on MaMaCategories Personal entry Tags betting odds, Coronavirus, Donald Trump Leave a comment on This is a fantastic, tremendous, INCREDIBLE betting line OSU’s New Product Development Center supports Oklahoma’s innovators with prototyping servicesĮditor’s Note: Along with colleague Debbie Cox from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, I recently toured the fabrication lab at the Tulsa campus of Oklahoma State University’s New Product Development Center. ![]() ![]() PRESIDENT TRUMP DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OVER/UNDERSįantastic +Incredible + Amazing + Tremendous 24.5 Here’s the list of words and phrases and their odds from an outfit called. Now, I’ll watch the briefings even closer to see how close Trump hits the betting line. My friend Ed forwarded an email to me with betting odds on some of Trump’s favorite words and phrases he uses when he has no real information to relay. Now, I’ve discovered that I can actually wager on the number of times he repeats some of my favorite words or phrases. Unless you are wearing a Make America Great Again cap, you realize it’s all bluster and BS. This shortened name brought a new image with a fresh start to their store.One of the fascinating things about watching the daily Coronavirus briefings from President Trump is anticipating certain words or phrases he says repeatedly. In order to save customers time, while writing checks, Nick shortened the name to Crest derived from the Ridgecrest shopping center. In 1964, they moved their operation to a new location in the Ridgecrest shopping center on Reno Ave. Nick and Cherry expanded their family business in Midwest City. Nick and Cherry were very proud that both of their sons decided to join them in the family business. They worked side by side to grow their business and raise their children Gary, Bruce, and Sydney. Nick and Cherry both came from a deep-rooted Lebanese heritage that pushed them to rebuild their lives with the freedom they deserved. Not long after starting the business, Nick married his beloved wife, Cherry, who would remain his partner in every sense of the word for more than 60 years. ![]()
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