XYZ
uses innovation as a tool to enhance user experiences and
penetrate new market.
 Design
Indaba - Most Beautiful Object in South Africa. Design
indaba expo presented a marketplace for
South Africa
’s top design
talent for the fourth time, with 260
exhibitors, 40 of then students.
This was a strong increase
from 163 exhibitors last year, including students. This
curated showcase of the best original South African design
across ... Click
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 South
Africa interprets Dutch Design to aid in local development.
Hand-craft and hi-tech meet as skilled wood crafters from
the Northern Cape village of Kharkams use alien vegetation to create
fully-functional funky
flash drives. USB
ports and memory sticks are not what would normally flash
across your mind when you think of technology coming out of
the Kalahari. Neither are they all that the Kharkams
Technology Crafters produce.
The project, supported by
Department of Water Affairs and
Forestry's Working for Water programme, is as much about
creating jobs, fighting poverty and building pride as it is
about ... Click
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XYZ designs to connect aesthetics, engineering, manufacturing and most
importantly the user.
 SA
creates world's
safest
traffic
light pole.
A
new South African innovation is being heralded as the
world’s first truly safe traffic light system and is
currently being piloted on the streets of Johannesburg.
The
Modular Traffic Light System (MTLS) is the safest in the
world as the entire system is composed
of polymer or
plastic
with no steel or metal components, explains the Johannesburg
Road Agency (JRA). The
system poses minimal danger to motorists in the unfortunate
circumstance of a collision with the traffic light. The
system is the first of its kind in the world and was ... Click
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more.
 Advanced
tool links Asian and South African industry. XYZ's
design department has
just run a complex tool
which local suppliers deemed impossible. Logistically it
made more sense to manufacture the product in South Africa,
though due to part complexity a specialist Chinese toolmaker
was used. To
ensure the tool could run on standard moulding machines, the
manufacturing process was strategized during the design
process
to ensure our South African and international processes
worked seamlessly. The
tool itself produces a single component which serves
multiple engineering functions such as water proofing and a
flexible "sock" like shield around PCB components
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more.
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XYZ
has an intimate global network which caters for clients
individual requirements.
 The
need to manage "low cost" procurement?
On
a recent tool validation trip to China, XYZ experienced a new "market"
style of plastic procurement. The following quote
from a colleague provides some insight "The raw
material supply here is unlike anything I have experienced
anywhere else in the world, the area known as Plastics
City
which comprises of hundreds of small suppliers who occupy
premises no bigger than a double garage. They advertise
their stock on a blackboard attached to the wall and one has
to go from shop to shop to find what one needs."
Although
pellet prices may be competitive, it is important to ascertain
mechanical properties and possible production reject rates,
to ensure initial cost savings are not lost later in the manufacturing
process. XYZ validates all polymer selections using a global
supplier network. Click
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to view the image.
 Speech by President Nelson
Mandela at the launch of the reintegration employment
concerns, the Baygen/Nicro factory.
With
the advent of democracy in our country, we all became
quickly aware of the extent of the devastation left by
apartheid on our people. We realised the enormity of the
challenges facing the new government, amongst them
widespread poverty, hunger; unemployment; a lack of skills;
inadequate shelter; health services; and education for the
vast majority. Government
cannot tackle these problems by itself, and we have been
calling for a partnership across sectors and groups to help
rebuild our country.
Many
individuals and institutions have answered that call by
assuming their share of responsibility in the reconstruction
of our new society. When we called for the business
community to help us fight crime, we were heartened by the
establishment...
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