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"Your Career CAN Make a Difference" Video Hits Home at NPE
Our "MoldMaking Matters: Your Career Can Make a Difference" video project with Creative Technology, NyproMold, AMBA, SPI and SPE's Mold Making and Mold Design Division, makes its debut at NPE2015. Attendees and exhibitors grab DVDs and manuals to share with their local communities as a recruitment tool for attracting the next generation of workers.
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Common Sense Innovation and Moldmaker Collaboration
As I walked the aisles of NPE last month, taking in all the plastics-related technologies and solutions on display, two obvious trends emerged: logical innovation and moldmaker collaboration.
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"Think in Plastic, Not Steel" Presentation Challenges Moldmakers
This “townhall” presentation, based on MoldMaking Technology’s monthly Pellet-2-Part (P2P) article series, challenged attendees to consider modernizing their current approach to mold manufacturing by gaining a greater understanding of the plastic injection molding process.
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Recruiting & Reshoring, Resources &Recommendations
Although there is a lack of future skilled workers, there is no lack of ways to do our part to help build that future workforce, including a new recruitment tool, a refreshed resource and data on the recruiting/reshoring connection.
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Ignite Your Leadership Skills
Come share best practices, learn ways to improve your profitability and become better leaders, managers and organizational contributors. This is waht the AMBA wants you to come out and do at their annual spring convention.
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The Power of People
Delegation, communication and cooperation are key to maximizing this power.
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Snowmobiling for a Good Cause
Not only did the snow bring together some of the mold building community for a little snowmobiling, it also helped raise money for a good cause. Proceeds from this inaugural I-Sledders 2015 Charity Snowmobile Ride on February 20-22 benefit iWarriors, which provides technology and assistance for wounded service members to help with rehabilitation and recovery from physical injuries, post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
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Is it Time to Add Molding Capabilities?
When working with MGS Mfg. Group on March's "A Modern Moldmaking Trend" feature, which examines what it actually takes to add molding capabilities (whether for sampling or production molding), the discussion lead to some questions every shop should ask first.
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Checking in with a Leadtime Leader
MMT's 2014 Leadtime Leader Honorable Mention Aalbers Tool & Mold, continues with the growth strategy that helped it nabbed the title last year with $1 million in support from the Southwestern Ontario Development Fund to be used for equipment and training investment.
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Come Out and Support Education
AMBA Chicago Chapter is hosting a Supplier Night Fundraiser on April 22 to support its Education Committee's continuing efforts to promote moldmaking as a viable career.
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Dream it. Code it. Win it.
With our recent efforts to promote career opportunities in mold manufacturing with our MoldMaking Matters: Your Career Can Make a Difference video, I thought I'd share this post about the second annual award-winning "Dream it. Code it. Win it." contest, which is a student coding competition that rewards and promotes creativity, diversity and literacy in the field of computer science.
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Power to Change
Paragon D&E's ‘Power to Change’ motto entails its team working together to create methods for doing things more efficiently and trusting their decisions. A key component to that philosophy is its powerful CAD/CAM software.
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