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		<title>You say 'risk' like it 's a bad thing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Sales Manager

&amp;amp;ldquo;Micro component solutions don&amp;amp;rsquo;t always arrive gift-wrapped.&amp;amp;rdquo; It&amp;amp;rsquo;s a topic that&amp;amp;rsquo;s sure to come up in the Top Tool booth at MD&amp;amp;amp;M...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:55:24 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Small-Wire EDM Makes a 'Boulder' out of a 'Speck'</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Dave Kari, Director of EDM

The amazingly delicate medical component prototype is only 1.3 mm wide. So it&amp;apos;s equally amazing that it requires 142 separate hits by the tool &amp;amp;ndash; all of them performed within a few square...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Egyptians, Catfish, Platinum and Neuro Stimulation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Sales Manager

One approach to technology innovation revolves around the effectiveness that can result from duplicating a property &amp;amp;ndash; like a form or a shape &amp;amp;ndash; already found in Nature. The inference...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 07:05:54 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Resolve to Think Positive About Micromanufacturing in 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Gary Hartmann, Vice President of Operations

Today&amp;amp;rsquo;s answers to &amp;amp;ldquo;what&amp;amp;rsquo;s possible next?&amp;amp;rdquo; continue to impress. Especially when it comes to packing dramatically increased capability and...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:14:05 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Extra Effective . . . Hold the Drama and Surprises</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Sales Manager

Greetings from BIOMEDevice in San Jose. I&amp;amp;rsquo;m very comfortable in Minnesota&amp;amp;rsquo;s Medical Alley. Even during winter. But I can&amp;amp;rsquo;t deny looking forward to a few December days...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Nothing 'Plain Vanilla' Here</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Ted Huot, Engineering Lead
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It happened before I knew it. Halfway through a &amp;amp;ldquo;medical device competiveness&amp;amp;rdquo; study by Harvard Business School guru Michael Porter. On page 18, I was up. By page 19,...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Living Life on the Small EDM Wire</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted By Dave Kari, Director of Wire EDM

In the manufacture of precision micro components 1mm and smaller &amp;amp;ndash; with complex geometries and critical features down to 0.1mm &amp;amp;ndash; the tooling and parts are only as good as the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:32:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Two 'Must Have' Capabilities in Precision Micro Stamping</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Technical Sales Support Lead, Top Tool

I learned today there are more than 500,000 apps &amp;amp;ndash; and counting &amp;amp;ndash; for my iPhone. I&amp;amp;rsquo;m not sure how a software review can sort through all those...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:23:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Where is Top Tool? In the News and at the Show</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Technical Sales Support Lead, Top Tool 
MICROmanufacturing Magazine looks at micro stamping. When it comes to component manufacturing, advances in product miniaturization by medical device and electronics manufacturers challenge...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:21:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Judging Suppliers by the (Military) Company They Keep</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Duane Kari, Technical Sales Support Lead, Top Tool

A Top Tool white paper on how to identify metal stamping optimized to manufacture complex precision micro components looks at six critical factors. Factor #5 suggests evaluating the caliber...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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