KEPLEY BIOSYSTEMS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS NSF TECP GRANT
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KEPLEY BIOSYSTEMS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS NSF TECP GRANT

Greensboro, N.C., November 11, 2016 — Kepley BioSystems (KBI) is pleased to announce being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships (TECP) grant to develop an automated manufacturing module for OrganoBait™.  This $150,000 grant will help transform the KBI production scale from the laboratory to begin addressing its vast market potential. KBI is an academically inspired enterprise committed to the development and commercialization of a patent-pending, synthetic crustacean bait to conserve billions of wild fish otherwise wasted merely as bait for lobster and crab fishing. Specifically, the KBI mission is to supply the $66 billion global crustacean fishing industry with an affordable, synthetic bait to avert the industrial plunder and consequent, dwindling populations of forage fish and the unintended by-catch of dolphins, turtles and other marine life destroyed in their capture. To design the automated manufacturing module, KBI will partner with Mr. Robert Barry, founder of…

Benefits of Outsourcing Design

Design Outsourcing is a process by which an organization interacts with a supplier to provide specialized design services.  Organizations may want to consider outsourcing if they do not plan on hiring in-house employees, do not intend to purchase equipment, or if they want to focus on strengthening their own business process.  The most commonly outsourced services are IT support, manufacturing, and design / creative services. Cost Advantages The most obvious benefit of outsourcing is saving money.  Overhead costs decrease when your organization does not have to buy specialized equipment or software it may not need to use every day.  The number of needed employees also decreases, saving money that may have been spent on salaries, health insurance, and benefits.  Or if your organization already has the specialized equipment, it can outsource skilled individuals from temporary agencies to avoid full-time pay year round. Access to Skilled Expertise Secondly, your organization is…

New Onshape
New CAD on the Block

In April of 2015, I signed up to test-drive a new Beta CAD software that claimed to be a “Full Cloud-based Professional CAD System”, and I have been quite impressed from the word “GO”. Onshape launched the Commercial Release in December of 2015 after a very successful Beta program. It has been a little over a half year since the release and I am very surprised at just how few people that I know even know about or have given Onshape a try… it’s FREE! I wanted to sit down and write about this, in my opinion, very incredible software and share with all of you; the benefits of using Onshape. Before I go much further, I want to bring one simple idea to the forefront: there is no installation to contend with, no updates to install, and most importantly you can run Onshape on any device that runs a…