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May General Meeting

Calendar April 27, 2013 | Posted by inotc

May General Meeting

5-9-2013 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202

-This is going to be a great meeting. Jolly Chia will be speaking with the Inventors Network for the May general meeting with her words of wisdom about the business industry and its relationship to product development and publishing.

-Chia-Li Chien

-Chia-Li Chien, “JOLLY!” She is CEO and chief strategist at Value Growth Institute, dedicated to creating business value that transforms your world.

-Chia-Li is also a Midas Advisor to MidasNation, a community dedicated to helping private business owners increase the value of their firms.

-She is the award-winning author of Show Me The Money

and faculty member of American Management Association. Her blog and newsletter was recently named a top small business resource by the New York Times “You’re the Boss” blog.-She is available for consulting, speaking engagements and workshops.-She can be reached at:

http://valuegrowthinstitute.com

http://www.chialichien.com

jolly@chialichien.com

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Last Months Meeting

 -Jerry Oakes

 

-Jerry gave a presentation on commercialization and what it takes to make it in the product development industry. He currently runs a consulting company for inventors.

http://www.synergyusa.com/

-Jerry can be reached at :

jerry@syngergyusa.com  or 704.323.5000
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  • This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members
  • Yearly dues for members are due in January for 2013, which is $75 for the entire year.
  • Check and Cash are accepted.
  • Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

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  • Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
  • Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
  • When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

Network, Develop, Commercialize

We look forward to seeing you

Building info: There has been some construction at Enventys and street parking maybe needed. If you have not been to our meetings before, the building is located at the end of Elliot street on the right. Then you go through the fence and down the driveway. The front door is located on the left side. Once you go in follow the hall way to the end then go through the door and turn left to the meeting room door.

President – Brian James

Flourish and Prosper

April General Meeting

Calendar March 29, 2013 | Posted by inotc
-This months speaker Jerry will be sharing his “Lessons Learned” in his life experiences in launching new products and technologies, and how to avoid many of the mind fields he got caught in.

Jerry Oakes

-Jerry founded the fastest growing automotive aftermarket company in Texas where he introduced the MII Vapor Injector, which was the for runner to the MTBE and ethanol gas additives.

 

-He founded and launched the heat transfer industry, and had the exclusive international rights to mood rings.

 

-Jerry has been a consultant to the National Space Institute, where he was on the committee for the “Salute to Werner Von Braun”, where he served on a committee with Ross Perot, Tom Landry, Hugh Downs, Bob Hope, John Denver, and other prominent leaders.

 

-Jerry has been a consultant to numerous national organizations, including the College of Nuclear of Medicine, Silva Mind Control, the University of Texas, Regent University, the University of California, the Christian Broadcasting Network, and the Christian Oilmen’s Association, where he served two terms as president.

 

-Most recently he was a judge at the 2012 and 2013 Charlotte Venture Challenge [CVC], sponsored by UNC and has acted as a mentor to participants of the CVC.

 

-He is presently acting as a business coach in the commercialization of innovation and technology.

 

http://www.synergyusa.com/

 

-Jerry can be reached at :

jerry@syngergyusa.com  or 704.323.5000

and would be delighted to answer questions relating to new product development, funding and marketing.
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Last Months Meeting

-Bitsy Spencer-LaFayette- She spoke to the group about the process of creating an application for smart phones to help fight hunger.

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  • This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members
  • Yearly dues for members are due, which is $75 for the entire year.
  • Check and Cash are accepted.
  • Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

__________________________________________________

  • Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
  • Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
  • When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

Network, Develop, Commercialize

We look forward to seeing you

Building info: There has been some construction at Enventys and street parking maybe needed. If you have not been to our meetings before, the building is located at the end of Elliot street on the right. Then you go through the fence and down the driveway. The front door is located on the left side. Once you go in follow the hall way to the end then go through the door and turn left to the meeting room door.

President – Brian James

Flourish and Prosper

March General Meeting

Calendar March 7, 2013 | Posted by inotc
March General Meeting
3-14-2013 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202
-This months speaker will bring her knowledge of being a start up company in the software arena of “apps”.! With a great professional background to assist in the process of bringing food to the hungry, Bitsy will share her experience.

Bitsy Spencer

-Bitsy Spencer-LaFayette finds that the world is run by 3 things: People, Money, and Technology. Having grown up in a farming community where only women were left in the family, she learned that if something needed doing it was possible to just figure it out and do it-so she never learned that some things aren’t possible. Having started off an art major, she finished with a B.S. in Psychology, then an M.B.A, and later even a yoga teacher certification. Her path has led her to such varied areas as being a Controller and Investment Banker in a small financial firm, to negotiating multi-million dollar purchases of IT hardware, to then switching sides of the table to sell IT services for Microsoft to Fortune 500 customers. Her latest challenge is the initial stages of a non-profit startup here in Charlotte, which is developing a technology to funnel spare change to charities.

http://plateshare.org/
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Last Months Meeting

-Pepsi Boyér M.S. &  D.I. von Briesen from the Division of Information Technology with Central Piedmont Community College gave a great presentation about their experience in Academia and technology.
(704)330-6856

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  • This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members
  • Yearly dues for members are due, which is $75 for the entire year.
  • Check and Cash are accepted.
  • Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

__________________________________________________

  • Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
  • Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
  • When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

Network, Develop, Commercialize

We look forward to seeing you

Building info: There has been some construction at Enventys and street parking maybe needed. If you have not been to our meetings before, the building is located at the end of Elliot street on the right. Then you go through the fence and down the driveway. The front door is located on the left side. Once you go in follow the hall way to the end then go through the door and turn left to the meeting room door.

President – Brian James

Flourish and Prosper

Febuary General Meeting

Calendar February 5, 2013 | Posted by inotc

February General Meeting

2-14-2013 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202
Make sure to bring your spouse or a date along for this one. There is no charge for your date of course, and what better way to say you care than Inventing and Developing love or love based products!The INotC February 14, 2013 meeting speakers are Pepsi Boyer and Divon Briesen.

Pepsi Boyer

Originally from New Orleans, Pepsi Boyér went to college at UNCA for a Bachelor in Science Degree and finished her studies with a Masters in Digital Communications. Her experience in education expands from pre-k to higher education focusing in areas of the Environmental Sciences, Engineering, IT and Simulation and Gaming. Her teaching philosophy focuses on creating passion for academia and her teaching practices bring forth powerful reflection and evaluation.

Pepsi Boyér M.S.

Division Director of Information Technology

Central Piedmont Community College

(704)330-6856

Di von Briesen

D.I. von Briesen has been a technologist for 20 years, and a college teacher for the last ten. He lives in Charlotte and along with his wife is raising five children to follow in his footsteps, combining service with technology, education, and working to understand our natural world. D.I. created the EcoBox, a self-contained living space made from a converted shipping container, founded the non-profit gDwell, and is active in Hackerspace Charlotte and working to get kids involved in STEM, in part thru partnerships with Discovery Place, Imaginon, and CPCC. He is a regular speaker on technology in education, and an active participant in the open courseware movement. In particular, D.I. is excited by the opportunities that web based tools offer for learning and teaching programming, and the much broader world of the open source maker movement.

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Last Months Meeting

Mike Weaver spoke to us about the success and pain of the serial inventor. His in depth knowledge in the field of computers and electronics that he presented was outstanding, and a true account of the trials and tribulations of product development and what it takes to succeed!

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  • This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members
  • Yearly dues for members are due, which is $75 for the entire year.
  • Check and Cash are accepted.
  • Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

__________________________________________________

  • Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
  • Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
  • When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

Network, Develop, Commercialize

We look forward to seeing you

Building info: There has been some construction at Enventys and street parking maybe needed. If you have not been to our meetings before, the building is located at the end of Elliot street on the right. Then you go through the fence and down the driveway. The front door is located on the left side. Once you go in follow the hall way to the end then go through the door and turn left to the meeting room door.

President – Brian James

Flourish and Prosper

January General Meeting

Calendar January 4, 2013 | Posted by inotc

January General Meeting

1-10-2013 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202
The INotC January 10, 2013 meeting will have Mike Weaver as guest presenter. Mike shared with us a 30 year product development overview and some key thoughts in his presentation “How to Find Good Ideas and Turn Them into Cash” back in March 2010.

  • This month Mike will be presenting “Lessons Learned from Creating Winning and Losing Products”.
  • With each new product development effort there are keys to success which when missing can be identified as causes of failure. Likewise, commercially successful products seem to share common keys.
  • Following a case study approach, Mike will be presenting a series of 5-8 minute looks at products that were winners and losers. The goal is to share insights on keys to each product’s vision, creation, development and ultimate market success/failure. An open question/answer session will follow the presentation.
  • Mike Weaver is a serial inventor, entrepreneur with over 3 decades of experience creating new products and services. Mike has been a member of INotC for five years and currently serves as Vice President.

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Nominations have arrived for the 2013 board of directors.

  • Treasurer
  • Website Updates and Maintenance
  • Advertising and constant contact
  • Member engagement
  • Speaker relations and scheduling
  • Video and SKYPE testing and set up

Here at the INotC we believe in keeping things simple. If you are interested in talking about helping with the administrative side things, then feel free to come speak with Brian James during the later half of the meeting.

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Member Businesses

Anyone that has a business which they own or work for that is involved with your inventing/product development, send an email back with a link to your website and we will review it to be listed on the INotC website on the Members website page.
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Last Months Meeting

I want to thank everyone that was involved in our December general meeting. Anyone that has an interest in SCORE services, I encourage anyone to utilize this great service.

Charlotte SCORE mentor sign up
Main SCORE website

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  • This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members
  • Yearly dues for members are due in January for 2013, which is $75 for the entire year.
  • Check and Cash are accepted.
  • Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

__________________________________________________

  • Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
  • Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
  • When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

Network, Develop, Commercialize

We look forward to seeing you

Building info: There has been some construction at Enventys and street parking maybe needed. If you have not been to our meetings before, the building is located at the end of Elliot street on the right. Then you go through the fence and down the driveway. The front door is located on the left side. Once you go in follow the hall way to the end then go through the door and turn left to the meeting room door.

President – Brian James

Flourish and Prosper

December Meeting: Entrepreneur Mentoring

Calendar December 7, 2012 | Posted by inotc

December General Meeting

12-13-2012 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202

Lets make a S.C.O.R.E.
-We  have made a deal with the SCORE organization (Service Corps Of Retired Executives)
-Mentors from SCORE will be speaking with the INotC at the Dec. General meeting.  They will be speaking about their business experience in manufacturing, product development domestically and internationally as well as related subjects.
-SCORE is a service provided to entrepreneurs. There are thousands of mentors to choose from to help grow your business in many areas. Many inventors and business people have found success with SCORE and so can YOU!
Contact and sign up for mentoring!
Charlotte SCORE mentor sign up Main SCORE website

CHUCK SAWICKI and WILLIAM STRONG will be both be guest speakers.

CHUCK SAWICKI, Basic Bio
CFP, CLU, CHFC, CCP, SCM

-Chuck Sawicki received his BA in Economics from Notre Dame and his MBA in Marketing and Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.
-He served as an Officer in the U.S. Army as a Distinguished Military Graduate (DMG) through ROTC .
-He spent 22 years with Dun & Bradstreet where he started as a business credit reporter and was selected for their accelerated management training program. He managed 4 progressively larger district offices, was President of its Canadian subsidiary, Director of New Business Development, and a corporate VP in its New York headquarters.
-After the company was purchased by RH Donnelley, he took an early retirement to enter the investment field and started working for Merrill Lynch.
-He was recruited by Smith Barney as a national trainer on its New York Training Center staff.   He was promoted to Stuart, Fl. in 1986 as a Branch Manager and Senior Vice President-Wealth Advisor where he retired in 2006 after a 24 year career.
-He was ranked in the top 10% nationally and was top producer in his office of 30 Wealth Advisors for 18 consecutive years.
-He has been President of 3 different companies during his career in M&A information; wholesale investment products; and business information. -For the past 6 years he has been a volunteer Small Business Certified Mentor for the Charlotte SCORE chapter and Vice President-Sponsorships for The 15 SCORE Chapters in North Carolina.
-He has lived in or visited all 50 states and 90 countries. He and his wife of 50 years have 3 children and 6 grandchildren and live in Center City Charlotte.

704-334-8202 ChuckSawicki@BellSouth.net

WILLIAM STRONG, Basic Bio

-Graduated, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.  1963

*Includes 1 year at Univ. of Madrid, Spain, 1960/1961

-Graduated, American Grad. School of International Mgmt., Arizona. 1967

-Received commission, US Army: 2 yrs active duty,  5 yrs reserve: special duty 13 months Korea, 1964/1965

-LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT, 1968/1971

*Spent 6 months in Tokyo to obtain first production order for 1st widebody, L-1011 Tristar. Order received from All Nippon Airways (ANA). Order launched L-1011 by paying for tooling, assembly, testing, and procurement of parts from outside suppliers.

-TELEDYNE, 1972/1992

*President and Group Executive over each of the following overseas Teledyne companies: 25 Countries

MC CROMETER 1992 – 2010

-McCrometer is an instrumentation manufacturer specializing in production of high accuracy flow measurement instrumentation. Company is located in Southern California. Company’s flow meters are used principally in custody transfer (read buying and selling) applications in oil, gas and municipal water markets. I served as a senior adviser to the CEO but in fact had an operations job in which over the years I raised the company’s foreign sales from 25% of total sales to 49%.

-Major international oil/gas companies I worked with to install custody transfer measurement systems onshore and offshore included: 17 Companies

-Municipal water measurement projects: 12 Countries

704-458-7059: wstrong1@carolina.rr.com
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- Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved! – Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in! – When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!
Network, Develop, Commercialize

-This meeting cost $20 for guest and is free to members -Yearly dues for members are coming due in January for 2013, which is $75 for the entire year. -Check and Cash are accepted.
-Thank you once again for supporting the INotC.

November – Venture Challenge

Calendar October 25, 2012 | Posted by inotc

November General Meeting
Venture Challenge Competition!

November 8th, 2012 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
520 Elliot Street Charlotte NC, 28202

Let’s make this one to remember and prosper from!

We here at the INotC and Enventys have made a deal with the Charlotte Research Institute and Venture Challenge, so that you can pitch your invention to judges and investors and get your invention career started or just get some extra capital for the already seasoned inventors product.

Details

What: INOTC Member Pitch Competition
Where: Enventys
When: November 8th, 2012 (6:30pm to 8:30pm)
Who: INoTC Members

All INoTC members are invited to pitch their inventions to a panel of Charlotte Venture Challenge experts. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to gain experience giving a brief Rocket Pitch. This is a public venue so if you have not filed with the patent office yet you probably should not be pitching.

Pitch Presentation Guidelines

Each presenter will have 3 minutes and 3 slides to pitch their invention/technology. The presentations will be made to a panel of judges. The judges may or may not be able to ask questions depending on how much time we have available for everyone. The audience will also be asked to participate by providing feedback to those people pitching.

    Slides: 3 Slide Max (Must use PowerPoint and the 3 slides includes the title slide)

  • Slide 1: Technology/Invention (Briefly describe who you are and what the invention is and does)
  • Slide 2: Market (What markets can this be used in and what problems can it solve)
  • Slide 3: Opportunity (Where do you see the biggest opportunity and what do you need to go after it)

    • Questions from panel: Expect to be asked at least 2 questions

Successful Pitches

  • No single right outline – Prototypes, Pictures, Screen Shots, Graphs – Use Wisely
  • Capture Interest – Paint a Picture – Be Persuasive! You want to sell the audience
  • Do not fill slides with text – Each “punchy” bullet point tells more detail
  • Leave the audience wanting to learn more. Give people a reason to come talk to you.

    • Slides are due 11/6/2012 by 11pm. Please email them to Devin Collins at devin.collins@uncc.edu. We ask that you please include your name in the file name.

      November 8th Logistics at Enventys

    • 6:30pm – Sign-In and Overview
    • 6:40pm – Introduction of Judges
    • 6:45pm – Pitches Begin (The number of pitches will determine whether we do questions)

      • TBD – Feedback Sessions

    We will announce the teams selected to present at the Charlotte Venture Challenge Pitch Day on December 6th 2012 the following week. All teams will be notified of their status via email.

    It is important that you email or call Devin to let him know that you want to do a presentation !!!

    Devin A. Collins

    Assistant Director Business and Entrepreneurial Development

    UNC Charlotte | Charlotte Research Institute

    David H. Murdock Core Laboratory Bldg. – Suite 3333

    150 Research Campus Drive | Kannapolis, NC 28081

    Phone: 704-250-5753 | Fax: 704-250-5763

    Devin.Collins@uncc.edu

    - It can not be over stated the importance of the beginning stages of the commercialization for product developers. Having a product is only the 1st stages in the process. To get feed back from judges that understand the business is worth its weight in gold in more than one.

    - If you are not wanting to present for the competition feel free to just watch, bring guest or bring your product or sketches to share during the networking time.

    - Collectively when we network, mountains can be moved!
    - Through creativity, we can develop a civilization worth living in!
    - When we commercialize, we give our value and vision to the world!

    Network, Develop, Commercialize

    October Meeting – Sales and Marketing

    Calendar October 6, 2012 | Posted by inotc

    We have a special guest Bill McHenry who is flying into Charlotte to visit with INotC as well as Devin Collins for our October General meeting on the 11th.

    - Bill McHenry is the President of Envision Sales & Marketing LLC. (ESM). Bill started Envision Sales & Marketing in 2003 and has been President since the Company’s beginning.

    Bill leads a strong management team that is focused on keeping ESM’s mission of offering top notch sales, marketing, and business development functions by working hand in hand with partner companies to optimize sales and growth. Envision Sales & Marketing’s emphasis goes beyond just strategy. ESM focuses on the implementation of the strategy they develop with their customers while also continuing to broaden its capability of on line intelligence (SEO, SEM, and DFO).
    In addition, ESM is accelerating its efforts on alternate channel sales opportunities and business strategy.
    Prior to starting the company, Bill had 22 years of sales, marketing and business development experience with Carnation, 3M, and Philips. During his career Bill has held many senior level sales and marketing positions. He has also been responsible for managing businesses in excess of $100 million per year.

    Bill serves on the Board of Directors of the United Inventors Association and the Board of Directors of Alma College. He also serves as an Advisor for the Entrepreneurial Center of the University of Illinois and an Advisor to the Entrepreneur Center at DePaul University.
    Bill graduated from Alma College with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He and his wife, Nancy, have two sons.

    Bill McHenry │ President
    Envision Sales & Marketing
    P: 847-462-8938 │ F: 413-669-8938 │C: 847-922-2671
    bmchenry@esmsales.com

    -Devin Collins from the Research Institute and UNCC will come and speak with us as well about the upcoming venture challenge in December. This is a great opportunity for upto 5 INotC members to take their product in front of judges and be awarded a grant to help get commercialized. Devins talk will be a great introduction and guide line for November 8th pre-pitch day and December 6th Venture Challenge. This could be the chance you have been waiting for!!

    If you are interested in getting help with your product then you will not want to miss these meetings.

    -Always remember to invite friends or business associates which would benefit from INotC. Collectively we have a deep wealth of knowledge as a group. Invite other inventors, engineers, entrepreneurs, financiers, professors, manufactures and anyone else that would enjoy the process and business of product development. Knowledge is power!!

    -Thank you for supporting the INotC! If it wasn’t for inventors and business professionals like you, then there would be no progress in this world!

    We look forward to seeing you .

    September Meeting – Local Prototyping

    Calendar August 30, 2012 | Posted by inotc

    September 13th, 2012 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

    We will be visited by Patrick Oltmanns, CEO of ClickFold Plastics for our September general meeting. Patrick’s company and services will assist the invention knowledge for the group on the subject of prototyping and short run manufacturing. His company is local and he will be bringing many samples to share with the group in person.

    Feel free to visit Patrick’s company on the web:
    ClickFold Plastics
    Or On Facebook

    Professional Bio
    - Grew up in Kenya while his father worked for the U.N.
    - Served in the German Army as a helicopter mechanic
    - Studied mechanical engineering in Germany
    - Took on a technical sales and project management role for a plastics machinery manufacturer (Barmag AG)
    - Moved to Charlotte in 1995 to become the sales manager for their U.S. subsidiary (American Barmag)
    - Completed Wake Forest’s Charlotte MBA program in 1999
    - Started ClickFold Plastics in 2000 after negotiating a license agreement with a German company to use their technology

    Click Fold Overview
    - This “mold-less” technology uses CNC machining and CNC line-bending to make plastic parts without the need for molds or fixtures
    - The business model targets buyers of prototypes and small volumes who need custom designs on a budget
    - The technology also targets buyers who anticipate frequent design changes
    - Added digital printing capabilities in 2010 to further eliminate the need for silk screens
    - Recipient of a NC workforce development grant in 2011
    - Surpassed 1 million in annual sales in 2011
    - Sponsor of the Ronald McDonald House
    - Sponsor of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Program

    Patrick Oltmanns, contact data
    1-866-649-8665 x 701
    patrick@clickfold.com
    www.clickfold.com

    As usual at our meetings, we will be networking amongst the group. Whatever stage that your current project is in, feel free to bring prototypes, finished products, sales sheets or anything else that you would like to get an opinion on from the group. Bring business cards and make connections. (keep in mind that showing somethings could compromise the protection of that project)

    At the last meeting we ran out of time before Brian could collect the questionnaire from July’s meeting. If anyone that filled this out could bring it to the September meeting it would be appreciated.

    Always remember to invite friends or business associates which would benefit from INotC. Collectively we have a deep wealth of knowledge as a group. Invite other inventors, engineers, entrepreneurs, financiers, professors, manufactures and anyone else that would enjoy the process and business of product development. Knowledge is power!!

    August Meeting – Prototyping

    Calendar August 2, 2012 | Posted by inotc
    Randy Landreneau will be speaking with us at the 8-9-2012 general meeting. He has some good insight on prototyping and will be sharing that insight with us Via SKYPE.


    Examples of methods for rapid prototyping

    • In Stereo lithography, a movable column positions itself in a special photosensitive resin so that a very thin layer of the liquid is on top of the column.  Based on the CAD file of the part, a computer directs a laser to the exact areas of the liquid, which harden.  The column then lowers a minute amount, providing another thin layer of liquid, which again gets hit by the laser.  This goes on until the complete part is fully created.
    • In Fused Deposition Modeling, a computer uses the CAD file to build the part using a very small extrusion of molten plastic, layer by layer.
    • The latest addition is 3D Printing.  This process uses a special type of inkjet printer where a computer is directing the print heads to spray fine amounts of material, layer by layer, until the part is completely built.

    BIO - Randy Landreneau is a former President of the Tampa Bay Inventors Council.  Randy runs Complete Product Development, a company that does consulting, design, development, prototyping (old school and rapid), and short runs using urethane casting. Randy also provides inventor education through two DVDs – How to Make Plastic Prototypes and Invention 101. Randy plans to talk about prototyping, including the exciting new developments in 3D printing.
    Complete Product Development website

    As usual at our meetings we will be networking amongst the group. What ever stage that your current project is in feel free to bring prototypes, finished products, sales sheets or anything else that you would like to get an opinion on from the group. Bring business cards and make connections. (keep in mind that showing somethings could compromise the protection of that project)

    Anyone that has taken some time to participate in the questionnaire handed out at our last meeting and would like to discuss with me and share their opinion, feel free to get involved. Any input that you may have will be helpful and is important to the success on the system being created to help increase the effectiveness of the group.