“They can use pre-printed paper in the machines,” says Reece, Director of Marketing for Mcor. “You print out a bunch of theses and you have all this paper. What do you do with it? You can toss it in the recycle bin, but you can also use it in the printer. We are the only company in the world that uses ordinary copy paper in a 3D printer.”
Reece says the paper-based 3D printer can print multiple models at the same time, which further minimizes paper waste.
The Cal Poly Ponoma Foundation implemented a food truck on campus that features a solar-powered coffee-cart. The truck’s point of sales system runs off of rechargeable batteries, which can plug into an outlet, or run off of solar power.
“We provide drinks, coffee and other drinks with this vehicle. It’s an untethered service we’re providing and you can travel anywhere on campus that you want to. We’re very active in developing new technologies to provide this type of lower carbon footprint. That’s a statement of the engineering capabilities on campus.”
– Randall Townsend, Director of Information Technology, Cal Poly Pomona Foundation
“You can actually print multiple models at the same time,” she says. “You can print a whole classroom’s-worth of models at the same time. Thereby, you’re minimizing the amount of waste that needs to be recycled at the end because you’re using up all of the paper there. That’s something that’s really nice about it and it goes hand-in-hand with the whole eco-friendly issue.”
Reece also says these 3D printers do not involve any post-processing, which means students are not exposed to hazardous chemicals to keep the models held together.
“With the powder printers, in order for students to actually handle the models at the end so that they don’t literally crumble in their hands, they need to get them in some toxic chemical,” she says. “With our models, you don’t have to do that. They are actually strong enough right out of the printer to have the students handle, drop on the floor without having to dip into anything whatsoever, which is really nice.”
Other higher education organizations, like the Cal Poly Ponoma Foundation, which is part of California State Polytechnic University, invested in Kronos‘s HR software to make payroll processes and other HR data systems function more smoothly.
The Cal Poly Ponoma Foundation also uses the software to reduce paper consumption and work towards sustaining a carbon-neutral campus.
“We still have some paper, we’re not completely paperless, but we’re still moving down that path,” says Dennis Miller, Chief Employment Officer of the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation. “We’ve reduced our paper usage to maybe, 95 percent. It used to take us seven to 10 days to process payroll, now it takes two days. We used to have five people in payroll, now we have two. We get it done better, faster and cheaper.”
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