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Keeping a parts buy InFocus in Oregon: projector designers develop radically new part; buyer finds supplier in Taiwan. (Metals Castings).(Waffer Technology Corp. provides cast-magnesium parts for video projectors)
Purchasing, September, 2002 by Stundza, Tom
InFocus Corp. is an Oregon company that makes digital data and video projectors and, under orders from top management, is learning how to operate in an atmosphere of cross-functional cooperation. This change in corporate culture is recent, but it already has resulted in a new projector made with a trio of cast-magnesium parts that were prototyped in Colorado and now are being purchased in production quantities from a supplier in Taiwan.
These next-generation cast magnesium parts are thinner yet stiffer, weigh less and can be machined to tighter tolerances than the castings they replaced. Two are housings for a new LP 130 business projector, while the third is a critical component for the interior lamp module that helps provide high-resolution XGA (extended...
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