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The newest class of police officers in Springfield, Massachusetts, who will receive their badges later this month, will be working to regreen two inner-city parks, as well as planting new trees in front of several neighborhood residences in an effort to help regreen the city. Hennessy Park and Adams Playground in the Mason Square and Upper Hill Neighborhoods of Springfield will be the site of the park clean-up and tree planting on Saturday, October 11th. Starting at 9:00 AM, 29 graduating recruits will begin planting new Sweetgum, Ginko, and flowering trees at both parks, as well as in front of residences on Kenyon Street. The work is expected to continue into early afternoon.

With each royalty payout, these companies have a lot at stake: relationships with their payees, the potential for overpayments or underpayments, and the uncertainty and risks of errors.

Many of the world’s job shops need to identify part cost reduction opportunities throughout the product development lifecycle, leading to millions of dollars in cost savings.

Chris Lobdell of Northeast Manufacturing noted, "Contract bidding and the art of fast and accurate cost estimating are more crucial to a company's profitability now than ever before. We rely heavily on our system to produce accurate bids for competing effectively."

Few job shop cost estimating solutions come fully loaded with a library of over 2,000 work centers and materials. Too often there is an attitude among some job shop owners that these technologies are simply too good to be true. In fact there are few steps needed to accurately and effective test the efficacy of any cost estimating software.

According to Thomas Charkiewicz, President of MTI Systems, (www.MTISystems.com) the leading cost estimating software firm since 1982, “Software solutions such as Costimator OEM allow companies to quickly and easily identify the cost drivers in the products they design, manufacture, and procure. This valuable information is then used to explore design alternatives and methods of manufacture that lead to lower cost products with higher profit margins.”

MTI Systems is proud to have implemented its products and services at over 1,200 companies with over 10,000 trained users since its inception in 1982.

Manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler recently authored a feature article for Automation.com about the Bottom-Line impact of accurate cost estimation technology.

"Costimator is currently being utilized in the Americas to respond quickly to request for quotes, to provide target pricing to suppliers and validate quotes received from the supply base. Ultimately, this tool will be utilized globally allowing us to estimate accurately and rapidly within each region," reports Kristen Housley of Jabil Circuits.

At Carroll Machine Works (Pasadena, TX), the ability to produce cost estimates quickly and accurately is a matter of survival. To win jobs from customers that include NASA, aerospace companies and a variety of petrochemical, oilfield and gas industries, a precision machine shop must respond to an average of 150 customer RFQs per week.

MTI Systems is the leading provider of innovative cost estimating solutions for manufacturing, working with OEM’s and Suppliers worldwide.

MTI Systems is the leading provider of innovative cost estimating solutions for manufacturing, working with OEM’s and Suppliers worldwide. Costimator is the leading cost-estimating technology solution.

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As far back as 1918 when Chevrolet introduced the first truck, the 490 Light Delivery Chassis Cowl, people have looked for ways to make their trucks last longer and look better. Beginning in the early 1990’s bed liners started to evolve. Today, Today, Ameraguard and Armaguard deliver a high-tech, eco-friendly process that utilizes hybrid formulations and various production techniques, raising the industry standard in spray-on bed liners at over 100 dealerships and growing!