MSOE Library Home	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   Search   My Account

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Author KeywordsBarcodeBib No.Call Number Keyword Search (Enter part of a call number -- use wildcards)General Keyword SearchKeyword Search of Contents NotesKeyword Search of Credits Notes (Enter word or words)Keyword Search of FormatKeyword Search of Item DescriptionKeyword Search of Publisher's NameName Keyword SearchPublication Date Keyword SearchSearch Part of an ISBN NumberSearch Part of an ISSN NumberSeries Title KeywordsSubject KeywordsTitle Keywords       Refine Search     > You're searching: Walter Schroeder Library, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Kiekhaefer, John H.     Subjects     Screen process printing -- History     Screen process printing industry -- Technological innovations     MSEM Thesis.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kiekhaefer, John H.       by title:      Technological change...         MARC Display

Technological change and screen printing technology / by John H. Kiekhaefer. by Kiekhaefer, John H. Subjects Screen process printing -- History   Screen process printing industry -- Technological innovations   MSEM Thesis. Description:  xiv, 229 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. Contents:  Advisor: Stanley Kosmatka. Committee members: Dr. William Gleason, Terry Hoffmann. Introduction -- Technological change concept -- Technological forecasting -- Screen printing technology -- Technological competition in printing -- Viewpoint of technological change in the screen printing industry -- Appendix A: Screen printing technology -- Appendix B: Competitive printing technologies. This essay discusses the ramifications of future technological change for the screen printing industry. In this case, technological change (or technology progression) refers to future improvements that may be made in screen printing technology and other printing technologies potentially competitive to it (A total of eight technologies and twenty-one technology subsets are involved). Historical technology progression curves of screen printing technology and potentially competitive technologies are generated from data collected of cumulative patents over time. It is argued that cumulative patent data is becoming increasingly more useful in plotting technology progression as computer data bases of patents improve and are made more broadly available. A stepwise method is suggested by which to predict the future of the screen printing industry. This method is then applied to the situation of the U.S. screen printing industry. Aiding this analysis is proposed market segmentation of sixteen screen printing product specialties as well as technology progression curves, market dimensions, and technical considerations of the printing technologies. The viewpoint drawn from analysis is that in the next twenty years, a substantial portion of business that is currently produced by screen printing technology is at risk of being lost to competitive printing technologies. The potential for loss varies with product specialty from none to 100%.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Walter Schroeder Library Master's Theses AC805 .K54 1996 Available Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.