Christina Fuges

Christina Fuges Editorial Director

Leadership

MMT Chats: Removing Roadblocks for the Team and Customer

James Jergens, Operations Manager for Ernie Green Industries chats with me about supply chain management changes, tooling, purchasing advice, and leadership’s impact on efficiency.

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30 under 30

In Case You Missed It and A Look Ahead

Here are what topics were popular in MoldMaking Technology this past year and what the brand has in store for mold builders in 2021—traditional engineer, build and maintain topics but with a look into some nontraditional MMT applications, Amerimold 2021, NPE, Leadtime Leader Awards 30 Under 30 Honors Program, MMT Chats video interviews and more.

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Leadership

Diversification and Departmentalization Drive Growth for Wisconsin Mold Builder

New ownership at Innovation Mold & Design (IMD) grows the company by investment in technology that serves a departmentalization and diversification, business model.

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Leadership

Westminster Tool Invests 10% of Revenue into New Machining Equipment

Westminster Tool’s investment in its hard machining department addresses growing production demands and opens doors for internal training opportunities.

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Medical

MMT Chats: Acquisition Trends and Lessons for Mold Builders

Jim Berklas is a former full-time M&A lawyer for several of the largest private equity firms in the country and has 25 years of M&A experience and 200 closed transaction. Today, he is founder and M&A Leader with Augmented Industry Services. He joins me for this MMT Chat on mergers and acquisitions trends and strategies within in the mold manufacturing industry. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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2020-2030 Editorial Advisory Board: Meet New Board Member Brian Dippel

The 2020-2023 version of MoldMaking Technology's EAB features a new crew of 12 industry professionals. Here's one of them.

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Future Leadtime Leader Award Winners: Your Time Is Now

Enter for MoldMaking Technology’s Leadtime Leader Award and share how your shop went above and beyond this past year.

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Basics

MMT Chats: Composites, Putting Material Only Where You Want It and the Impact on Tooling

Robert Graup, Toolroom Manager for Intex Tooling Technologies and Naithan Loach senior product manager with Axiom Group share details about their current work on continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics composites and its impact on tooling. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Education

WEBINAR: How Do You Reduce Risk in Plastic Part Design and Manufacturing?

The answer is simulation, of course. In this free on-demand webinar, you will learn how to use upfront simulation to reduce manufacturing risk, design of experiments to make more informed decisions and simulation input to speed machine start up.

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MMT Chats: Solving Schedule and Capacity Challenges With ERP

For this MMT Chat, my guests hail from Omega Tool of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, who share their journey with using enterprise resource planning (ERP)—and their people—to solve their schedule and capacity load monitoring challenges.

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Toolroom Perspective on Micro Molding

Design for manufacturing, or more specifically design for micro molding is critical to this mold manufacturing niche as it presents unique challenges and impacts the tool build.

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Leadership

30 Under 30: Nominate Young Talent Today

MoldMaking Technology is looking for 30 individuals under the age of 30 making a difference in moldmaking, both in their company and in the moldmaking community. Nominate someone today!

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