MMT Blog
The Bottom Line: Recent Tax Issues Affecting Moldmakers
With a top federal income tax rate of almost 40 percent, coupled with other obligations such as payroll taxes, state income taxes and excise taxes, a significant tax burden is placed on moldmakers.
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Using Data to Make Decisions
Small businesses that use data to help make decisions reported revenue growth of 21 percent in the last financial year, as compared to 9 percent for businesses reporting limited use of data, according to a new survey.
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What Are Your Company’s Skills Criteria When Hiring?
When screening candidates for employment, what, besides applied skills, are also fundamentally important to your company?
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Throwback Thursday: Working on My Business
Being an IMTS year, it is to be expected that most of us are focused on technology. I'm here to tell you that to get the most out of the products and equipment you invest in, you must also focus on the "business" of moldmaking. This reminded me of an article series we published in the late 1990s that still applies today.
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Benefits and Obstacles to Metal 3D Printing
If you are looking to explore the ways that additive technologies can be implemented in an industrial setting, add the Additive Manufacturing Conference 2016, presented by Additive Manufacturing Magazine, to your IMTS agenda.
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Beyond Talking: Seeing is Believing
This year the AMBA Chicago Chapter will be hold two symposiums promoting careers in advanced manufacturing, but this time teachers, career counselors and superintendents will have the opportunity to see advanced manufacturing in action.
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Additive Mfg Digital Edition Now Online in Time for IMTS
With IMTS right around the corner and additive manufacturing having a larger presence at the event, no better time than now to share with you the IMTS edition of our AM magazine.
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Executive Decision Making in a Customer-Centric Organization
If you read the Gardner Business Index for Moldmaking that we published yesterday, and if your heart fell just a tad because it wasn’t very encouraging (especially given that indicators early in the year told us to expect a rocking summer for US molds and molding), take heart.
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Project-Based Learning – The Rest of the Story
In this month’s issue of MMT, I wrote about an instructor’s strategy for teaching his mechanical engineering students about moldmaking via project-based learning. I couldn’t include absolutely everything this instructor teaches his students, so I thought I’d blog about it.
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Childhood Memories of My Dad’s Mold Shop
Get a load of the young girl in the photo here. Yep, it’s yours truly at about six years old, visiting my dad’s shop with my mom during the holiday season of 1970.
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Throwback Thursday: Finding, Training & Retaining Employees
Even though there is no lack of coverage on the skilled workforce gap, we cannot deny its severity or the need for a commitment to do something about it. That's why I thought it was appropriate to use today's post to point you back to a series we did a few years ago that discussed how to find, train and retain a solid workforce.
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Not Subtractive or Additive, But Formative Manufacturing
With all the talk about subtractive and additive manufacturing these days, this news about a third wave of numerically-controlled manufacturing, known as robotic blacksmithing, caught my attention.
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