Sunday, June 26, 2016

" skills gap"hits the factory floor. ( specialty chemicals). 160109.

Small chemical producers reach out to community colleges for operator training.


Job gab : projected manufacturing job by the year 2025.


3.4 million : jobs are likely to be needed over the next decade.


2.7 million : Jobs will be created by the  retirement of baby boomers.


700,000  :jobs will be created by economic expansion.


1.4 million : jobs are likely to be filled.


600,000 : jobs were unfilled in 2011.


2 million : jobs are expected to remain unfilled in 2025.


From : CEN  MAY 23, 2016.


文中 Avatar,也许就是过去Baker等试剂公司,经过资本重组. 它看好前景. 这个10年结束时,


美国化工处於世界榜首. Avatar从配套食品,医药出发引伸到职工培训.


从培训视频看到的工塲与过去上海化工行业的车间差不多,上一代与下一代之间没有大沟.

HPLC struggles with its version of Moore's law.(analytical chemistry). 160108

Technique confronts practical limitations in pursuit of greater speed and accuracy.


"pretty soon the physics of smaller chromatography particles will run out of gas." Mike Yelle,


separations technology vice president at Waters.


From : CEN JUNE 13 , 2016


这个Moore's 定律, 从半导体发展中引过来. 每24个月尺寸就变得更小.

50 years of HPLC. 160107

A look back at the history of high -performance liquid chromatography and the column-packing


materials that enable its success.


from : CEN  JUNE 13, 2016


HPLC 在 现今分析中处领导地位, 回顾它的技术与仪器进步的过程. 使我警诧的,在起源中,


Du pont 公司起了极大的作用, 还有Dow 公司. 过去知道 Waters, 或Varain 仪器公司.


过去, 上海试剂厂, 分析,测试方面在行业中走在前面,用HPLC做了一些剖析工作. 在后面


也做了薄壳微珠的试制工作, 这些人与事也快50年了.


改革开放与国际接轨,也促进了HPLC的发展.  差不多 20 年 前, Du pont 公司, 上海农药分析


用HPLC, 价 $20万, 是当时国内最先进设备.