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Quantum Group is your essential print communications partner. Providing our customers leading-edge print & communication technology innovations since 1992.

Just as Blue Ocean Strategy redefined the essence of strategy as creating not competing, Beyond Disruption redefines and expands the existing view of innovation by introducing a new approach, nondisruptive creation, that is free from the destructive displacement that happens when innovators set out to disrupt. Blue ocean strategy, created by world-renowned professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, is a new way of thinking, a movement away from a competitive mindset. BOOKS: Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth Without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Blue Ocean Shift, Beyond Competing: Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth AUTHORS: Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are professors of strategy at INSEAD and the authors of the New York Times Bestseller Blue Ocean Shift and the 4 million copy global bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy. In 2023, they were chosen as two of the four leading thinkers in the 100 years of Harvard Business Review’s publication. In 2019, they were named the #1 Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50.

Edge Technologies is the leading supplier of magazine bar feeders for CNC Swiss and fixed headstock lathes. We offer the broadest product offering in the business with models that feed diameters from 0.8mm to 102mm, in lengths from 6-foot to 24-foot in length. With a history of success and a wealth of experience, Edge Technologies has over 30 years of sales & service, including more than 13,000 successful installations of magazine bar feeders in the North American marketplace. Edge Technologies showcases some of the finest bar feeders and short bar loaders in the world, such as FMB Machinery bar feeders, as well as our own line of economic bar feeders that bear the Edge Technologies name. Edge Technologies experience is documented through a history of success and innovation as demonstrated by: 30 years of experience providing bar feeder and lathe automation solutions to the production turning industry. Over 13,000 successful installations of magazine bar feeders in the North American marketplace. Nearly 1300 customers averaging over 5 installed systems per customer Access to the valuable technical resources of the Hydromat parent company, an industry leader in transfer machine technology. Access to the campus CNC machine shop, CNC grinding shop, fabrication and painting shop, and other services enable us to respond faster and more effectively to our customers. ISO 9001 certification since 1996, current status is ISO 9001-2000. We are a process driven company who has steadily improved performance using the principles of continuous improvement. Engineering and applications engineering departments staffed by associates who once served our team as field service technicians. We understand the technology from a hands-on basis. A pioneering history of innovation in the use of twelve-foot magazine bar feeders on Swiss lathe applications like the development of telescopic noses to improve performance and safety.