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Biotech / Medical : BioLase Technology, Inc. (BLTI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karl Drobnic who wrote (325)	4/1/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: J Stone	Respond to of 706

Karl, Your comment relates to one of my posts a while back. I used to be a manufacturing consultant with GE. It was fairly common to see production problems in companies that were making the transition from R&D to product seller. So, a key question may be: Does BLTI have experience "production people" in-house to help speed this transition? Bottlenecks are the key elements that many people miss. Instead, poor management can lead to large investments into un-needed work-in-progress. This ties up capital where it's not doing the company any good. (At one GE plant, when sales slowed, managers had workers occupy themselves by building housings for units to be sold in the future. In 2 months, the plant had invested $8million into finished housings which would take at least 2 years to sell under good market conditions.) FWIW Jeff

To: Karl Drobnic who wrote (325)	4/9/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Area51	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 706

Karl, Have you looked at PLSIA per chance? 'The Cutting Edge' seems to like it (doesn't mention it by name but California firm, around $9 involved in laser denistry). Amongst other things says '....won exclusive FDA approval for a laser surgery device -- a special new drill for dentists.' Also states 'other laser-technology companies haven't come close to inventing something similar. ...closest competitor is at least a year away from approval '. Is BLTI still a year plus away from approval for any laser dental devices? TIA, Garry