Article now up on seekingalpha.com: GE’s acquisition of 3-D printers: The latest move on its path to digital transformation General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced on Sept. 6, 2016, its acquisition of Swedish company Arcam and German company SLM Solutions at a cost of $1.4 billion. The companies are 3-D printing machine manufacturers that produce machines capable…

For those of you who haven’t yet heard about this company, this post is to introduce you to RolloutAEC… and to RolloutAEC’s innovative hardware product, PaperLight….. RolloutAEC > Exceptional Drawing Management ™ > Cloud-based Drawing Management Software for Construction and Engineering http://www.rolloutaec.com Post published on ExtranetEvolution.com on Apr 1, 2016 RolloutAEC rolls-out PaperLight Texas-based SaaS…

Rob McKinney is a construction technology blogger, consultant and founder of Construction App Guru: A website with a mission to educate the AEC Community about the uses for technology in construction. Top Five Uses for Tablets on Construction Projects In today’s fast paced world construction professionals have to deal with a tremendous about of information…

ARC issued a press release back in January 2016 about this survey. If you haven’t previously seen that press release, you may want to visit e-arc.com and download a copy. Here’s just a portion of what was said in that press release. Bold type identifies what should be of interest to all reprographers. ARC Document Solutions Survey…

Just in case you haven’t heard of this Internet-based plan and spec printing operation……. sounds like a Plan Express type of operation.  But, apparently, this one is not located next to a Fedex or UPS hub.  Hmmmm.  Print-center locations are in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. https://blueprintsprinting.com/pricing/ https://blueprintsprinting.com/printing-in-the-digital-age/ https://blueprintsprinting.com/blueprintsprinting-com-is-growing/ 0 0 1 132 755 Proactive…

If it was 30 years ago and your son or daughter, who just graduated college, said, “Dad (or Mom), I’d like to join the family reprographics business, how about you set up a new branch, across town, for me to run?”, it is likely that you would say, “no problem, that sounds great, we’ll find…

Just noticed that Patrick Welch, former Executive Vice President of Sales (for North America) for ARC Document Solutions, joined The Office City (a regional office supplies business in Northern California) as its Vice President of Sales.  Patrick joined The Office City in March 2016.  Best wishes for luck and success to Patrick. 0 0 1…

What’ll happen to the construction industry if 3D printing houses actually becomes widespread reality? This was a VERY interesting article: 0 0 1 62 354 Proactive Management 2 1 415 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;…

I did laugh when I watched the video of a test-delivery of a pizza by drone. Link: 0 0 1 57 330 Proactive Management 2 1 386 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;…

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