AVS Technology Breaks Iron Triangle of Good Fast and Cheap

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by Anthony W. Hawks, Chief Legal Officer, e-LYNXX Corporation

AVS Technology is the basic procedural component of any automated solution for buying custom goods and services that must be defined by production or performance specifications at the time of purchase. It includes the following steps:
ENTER vendor attributes
ENTER project specifications
MATCH vendor attributes to project specifications to determine sub-set of qualified vendors
SEND project specifications to sub-set of qualified vendors
RECEIVE a bid response from at least one vendor

When these steps are applied using a computer-operated system, a unique competitive bidding environment can be established where vendors of custom goods and services are now willing to offer their lowest prices to fill idle production capacity. This strategy is called “contribution pricing”. When vendors bid work (even when bidding well below normal rates), any income obtained above out-of-pocket costs “contributes” to fixed costs and overhead and, when absorbed, to their bottom lines.

Prior to AVS Technology, buyers of custom goods and services were faced with the “iron triangle” of quality, timeliness, and cost. Regardless of the industry involved, every procurement or supply chain solution seeks to attract business customers that want to achieve the purchasing trifecta of “good, fast, and cheap.” Before AVS Technology, however, a buyer could only achieve two of these three goals at any one time, not all three simultaneously.

AVS Technology breaks the “iron triangle” because it allows pre-qualified vendors with excess idle capacity to provide an extraordinary low price without risk of establishing future buyer price expectations. In other words, price is no longer tied to quality and timeliness of delivery. This is what makes AVS Technology integral to all current and future e-commerce methods and systems for buying custom goods and services including ERP systems, general supply chain management systems, specialized product or service procurement systems, and even older legacy systems. One such system for organizations with significant buying needs in direct mail, marketing, publications, packaging, labeling and other types of print is currently being offered by American Print Management. Regardless of the industry or buying need, however, all users and providers of such e-commerce methods or systems are required to license AVS Technology if they wish to benefit from this revolutionary innovation.

AVS Technology is unique in creating a controlled bidding environment in which repetitive purchasers of custom goods and services can leverage the open production capacity of their preferred vendors in a way that virtually guarantees “contribution pricing” that is, below normal pricing that seeks primarily to absorb out-of-pocket costs and some level of fixed costs and overhead. This is accomplished by allowing qualified vendors to bid high, low, or not at all (1) without having to consider buyer pricing expectations; (2) without fear of setting either high or low precedent for future bid prices; and (3) without worrying about being denied future bid opportunities for which the vendor is qualified. Freed from these concerns, bidders offer pricing based on their open production capacity at the time each job is bid, knowing that if they bid low this week when they are hungry for work, they are not bound to offer the same low price next week when they are busy with other orders.

The technology is based on a series of patents that the U.S. Patent Office awarded to e-LYNXX Corporation, including Patent No. 6,397,197, Patent No. 7,451,106, post-Bilski Patent No. 7,788,143, and Continuing Application 12/8885,423 (collectively, the “AVS Technology”). This thicket of patents covers all custom goods and services, not just print.

Licensing AVS Technology should be viewed as both a strategic benefit and a legal requirement. Any organization with a computer-operated system that procures custom goods and services, by following the steps outlined in AVS Technology, is required to obtain a license to use (or continue using) the patented procedure protected by AVS Technology. This applies to systems that are developed internally as well as those used through third-party brokers, procurement services and system providers. Organizations should check with their system or service providers to ensure that the system being used is in compliance with AVS Technology licensing requirements.

About e-LYNXX Corporation
e-LYNXX Corporation patented the technology integral to e-commerce. Endorsed by Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing (E&I) and Printing Industries of America (PIA), e-LYNXX drives results through its three divisions. AVS TechnologyTM licenses the patented* automated vendor selection procedure used in e-commerce and procurement systems. American Print Management provides web-based system, services and patented AVS TechnologyTM to reduce substantially the procured costs of direct mail, marketing, publications, packaging, labels and other procured print. Government Print Management offers effective U.S. GPO bid services and strategies. www.e-LYNXX.com 888-876-5432

Trust Ultrapure Technology For Next-generation Cleanroom Construction

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Cleanrooms must be built to exact specifications in order to ensure the requisite controlled environment for seamless manufacturing. Theyre used extensively by companies within the medical manufacturing field, who require contaminant-free environments to prevent the transmission of bacteria to both workers and patients within hospitals and other care facilities. The importance of quality cleanroom manufacturing simply cannot be understands. That is the reason that many companies utilize the services of experienced cleanroom construction professionals such as Ultrapure Technology when they require a cleanroom to be installed within their manufacturing facility.

Ultrapure Technology is one of the standout leaders within the North American cleanroom construction field thanks to their ability to handle all elements of the process from exquisite design to professional installation with complete competency. One of the benefits of working with the same design team that will be conducting the cleanroom installation is that the specialists at Ultrapure Technology already know how their design will fit together before beginning the installation process. This means that the time to entire and fit the entire cleanroom is consolidated considerably so that clients can quickly begin to make a return for their investment in the latest cleanroom technology installed by Ultrapure Technology.

The team at Ultrapure Technology understands that each cleanroom build is unique and each client has specific build requirements that must be considered during the design stages. The company works with clients directly before they begin the design to ensure the all factors are considered. For example, one such factor might be how large the cleanroom needs to be. The size of the area will affect elements such as ventilation and equipment placement. Another factor in designing a high performance cleanroom is the amount of personnel within the area. The design team at Ultrapure Technology will need to know precisely how many people will be within the area at any one time to ensure that all safety precautions and spacing needs are integrated within the final design. All these elements will be reviewed during the initial consultation that takes place before the design begins. A team from Ultrapure Technology will visit the clients facility and speak with the directly about their core manufacturing requirements as well as answer any questions that they might have concerning time of project turnaround and cost of final delivery. By working together with the clients, Ultrapure Technology has established a working process for seamless cleanroom installation success over hundreds of builds.

As leading experts when it comes to modular cleanroom construction, the company allows clients to handpick specific elements from their core catalogue. This catalogue includes all the high caliber technology that one might expect from a cleanroom construction specialist, including furniture, components, specialty equipment such as particle counters and much more! With a comprehensive selection of leading class solutions, clients are sure to find the requisite products to meet their full array of application needs.

Begin your cleanroom construction project with Ultrapure Technology. Industry leading, qualified construction experts are a simple phone call away.

About Ultrapure Technology:

Suwanee, Georgia based Modular cleanroom specialists Ultrapure Technology are the recognized industry experts when it comes to the design, construction management and installation of high quality cleanrooms. To find out more about the organization, please go to Ultrapuretechnology.

Exporting Technology To Africa To Save Lives

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A chance phone call from the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique has changed ours and their lives dramatically. It shows the power of creating appropriate and well constructed websites describing a companys services and products.

What was the problem and then the solution:
Delayed test results have often meant that HIV patients in Mozambique have failed to get timely treatment, particularly for preventing Mother to Child transfer (MTCT) of HIV on birth. However, having introduced and developed our new SMS printer technology with the Clinton Foundation and the Mozambique Ministry of Health the need to send tests to far away laboratories has reduced and has dramatically speeded up test results and HIV treatment for Mothers, Mothers-to-be and their newly born. After a successful 2009 pilot Mozambique has nationally rolled out our SMS printer technology and gateway, with Clinton Foundations help. This GSM network based printer and gateway technology transmits the results of mother and infant HIV tests electronically from two central reference laboratories in Maputo and the northern provincial capital, Nampula, to more than 275 health centres across the country. Previously, test samples and results took, on average, three weeks and up to several months to be transported to and from clinics via various means in remote parts of the country.

How did Sequoia and Clinton Foundation meet?
Because of this serious delay in test results the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique looked around for a technology based solution. They ended up contacting us in Reading having seen our website and enquired about using our SMS printer technology for sending health test data over the GSM network to speed up the time taken. After hearing what the program was about and the disastrous pass through rate from Mother to child for HIV we, at Sequoia, could only say yes to help with the program. Two years of concentrated work with the Clinton Foundation on the hardware and the required gateway software produced a successful pilot program. Subsequent research conducted by the Ministry of Health of Mozambique and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), after our SMS printer technology and gateway had been installed, showed that the time it took for clinics to receive test results from reference labs had dropped from an average of about three weeks to about three days after the printers were introduced. Research presented by the Ministry of Health and CHAI at the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria, showed that this, in turn, reduced the time it took to start infants (and /or mothers to be) on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by about 4 months. This is now part of the national prevention of mother-to-child (PMTCT) HIV transmission service within Mozambique. The number of infants starting treatment also increased by 60 percent.

How the SMS printer technology and gateway works:
Clinics across the country collect dried blood spot samples from infants and / or mothers to be and transport them to the nearest reference lab, where lab technicians conduct the HIV tests. Results are entered into the SMS printer database at the reference lab and then uploaded onto the Sequoia Technology online server (in Reading UK). The Sequoia gateway then uses the local MCEL GSM phone network to transmit results back to the appropriate clinic. Each clinic has a small thermal paper, GPRS enabled printer that receives the patient test data and prints out the HIV test results alongside a patient identification number. With interruptions in electricity and wireless network signal, the system has been designed to ensure 100 of the data is received by the appropriate printer completely intact – if printers are offline, results are safeguarded in an online gateway queue until the printer is available. The Sequoia Technology gateway shows the status of every printer whether on or not and the number of messages sent or in a queue waiting to be printed. The printer’s small size also makes storage easy in space-constrained clinics, which must also ensure that the printer is kept in a secure room to guarantee patient confidentiality.

Greater efficiency The introduction of SMS printers to clinics has not only meant that babies who test HIV-positive can be started on ARVs sooner – a potentially life-saving intervention – but has also reduced the numbers of new mothers who disappear from the clinics PMTCT program during the, previously, long wait times or after having spent time and money on multiple clinic visits to check for results. According to Mozambiques 2010 report to the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), about 30 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus, but only about 14 percent of these babies are tested for HIV before the age of 18 months. Without treatment one-third of HIV-positive babies will die in their first year of life, and almost half by the age of two. With our SMS printer technology in place now the clinics are being able to get to and test mothers-to-be ?for HIV and be able to prescribe AVR drugs in enough time to reduce the likelihood of mother to child transfer of HIV. Additionally further testing after childbirth can check the mothers viral load to ensure the right drugs are given when the mother is breastfeeding an additional way of MTCT of HIV. With our technology in place now, throughout Mozambique, the 30-40 or less if the pre and post birth testing and drug application takes place.

Our SMS printer technology and gateway is then a fast and accurate way of transmitting confidential health data to any remote location but crucially can be used for any disease Malaria, TB, HIV in fact anything that needs to be diagnosed in a lab. This technology forms a low cost and serious platform for countries to transmit diagnostic information quickly and accurately. Additionally, the gateway consolidates all information and therefore gives statistical data about disease spread and location and the quality of the health care across a complete country. Sequoia engineers took 2 years to perfect the gateway software with CHAI and MCEL to produce 100 full data quality and with printer / server buffering and handshaking to ensure the quality of data. Extensive testing took place in pilot phase of this project. Any authorized person can log on to the SMS2printer.co.uk website and retrieve the full data and visual map of where each printer is and the stats of how many messages have been sent / received / pending at each location.

Partnership – We continue to develop more capable GPRS enabled printers and are now working with CHAI in Kenya for potentially deploying a similar system in other African countries for the same health diagnostic transmission platform. Our association with the Clinton team in Mozambique continues and has become more of a partnership and further roll outs are planned as a result of the success so far.

Veinlite Is Leader In Transilluminator Technology For Vein Imaging And Venous Access

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Veinlite is highly regarded in the industry as the leader in transilluminator technology for Vein Imaging. The side-transillumination method is where a bright ring of light is placed on the skin and focused under the skin to form a virtual light source below the skin. This virtual light source is like having a bright light bulb under the skin that moves with the Veinlite. Therefore, uniform transillumination of the skin is made possible almost anywhere on the skin. An opening in the Veinlite devices provides access to the vein while imaging it for faster and accurate vein access. The unique design of the Veinlite devices blocks the vein and stretches the skin for easier access.

The innovative Veinlite products using Transilluminator Technology for Vein Imaging and Venous Access include the following:

Veinlite PEDI is the smallest pocket Veinlite for vein imaging and access in babies, newborns and neonates. An innovative snap-on adapter converts this to a through the body transilluminator for finding veins in neonate limbs. It has 12 dual color LEDs and uses a disposable lithium battery.

Veinlite EMS is an affordable pocket Veinlite for general vein access. This device is perfect for finding veins in adults and children. It has 16 dual color LEDs and uses two AA batteries. The new Veinlite EMS works well in assisting with vein imagining and access regardless of the lighting conditions or the color of the patients skin. Its simple operation and easy to follow instructions makes it a breeze even for the technologically challenged. The durable and lightweight light performs effective vein imaging even in near abusive situations.

Veinlite LED is the brightest and best pocket Veinlite for vein access and sclerotherapy. This device has 24 dual colored LEDs and a lithium rechargeable battery. It comes with pediatric adapter and a light shield. The new Veinlite LED is the most powerful pocket transilluminator available today for vein imaging prior to vein access or for consultation with patients prior to varicose vein treatment. Its unique C-shaped design and side-transillumination method creates uniform lighting for vein imaging anywhere on the body. Use of two scientifically selected LED colors, orange and red, permits visualization of veins in light or dark pigmented skin. The Veinlite LED is also used for standard through-the-body transillumination in children, babies and neonates. Solid-state LEDs used in the Veinlite LED create almost no heat.

Veinlite is a bright [150 watts] fiber optic based transilluminator for mapping of varicose veins and vein access. This device comes with either a large ring for adults or small ring for pediatric applications. It is excellent for mapping superficial varicose veins and finding feeder veins for sclerotherapy.

Veinlite is manufactured by Translite and is well known for vein finder for vein access in children, neonates, emergency medicine, critical care, radiology and oncology. For more information about the Transilluminator technology and Veinlite products visit veinlite.

Multitouch Ir Touch Screen Technology

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This technology is a lot more cost effective than other types of touch screen technology and can be used on small screens or large screens. Using a multi touch screen overlay you can instantly turn any of your projected image surfaces into a touch screen.

Utilizing this technology you can transform any of your rear projection screens, adhesive rear projection films, plasma, LCD, or LED flat screen TV’s into a truly interactive surface by simply sticking the IR bezel to the frame of your existing digital display. Surely you have seen the national weatherman on TV sizing and resizing pictures or weather data with his fingers and moving items around the screen, now you can do this too!

The abbreviation IR stands for “infrared” which is a type of light emitting diode that can sense the touches of your fingers, stylus or pen with extreme accuracy. You can get variant levels of touch ability, from two touch points and more depending upon the screen size. It’s also a lot more durable than other kinds of touch screen technology since it is using infrared to control the touch screen display.

This technology is a lot more cost effective than other types of touch screen technology and can be used on small screens or large screens. Using a multitouch screen overlay you can instantly turn any of your projected image surfaces into a touch screen. This is great for kiosks, and other interactive digital image displays. Imagine, you can even have a multitouch wall unit for your customers to interact with.

Additionally another great feature of the Infrared IR technology touch screens are that they are easy to interact with since virtually no pressure is needed to affect the screen. Since the technology uses infrared light rather than pressure the placement of a finger, stylus or pen, any object that interrupts the light source will cause the action you want.

With the touch screen overlay you’ll be able to do all kinds of interactive functions. You will be able to draw, point and click, enlarge, reduce, drag, drop and much, much more. In a nutshell, if you can perform the action with your mouse, you can do it with the multitouch touch screen overlay with your finger. This technology is something you have seen used during the nightly newscast many times. A little closer to home, you might even have a touch screen keyboard such as the one on your iPad, cell phone, or maybe you used the touch screen when you are checking out at the grocery store with your debit card.

Whatever you need it for, the IR technology overlay is something that you can put to good use in your business to promote your products, services, tell a story, get more client interaction, and more. The uses are only limited by imagination.