Sherry Baranek Contributing Writer
A “Run for the Border” Expands Transportation Market Niche
“This opportunity demonstrates how a great relationship can develop into a partnership with customers, as we’ve become very much a value-added supplier to them. We’re co-located with them and that strategy lends itself to other OEMs looking for similar relationships.”
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Inspection/Measurement Advances Yield Better Molds Faster
A roundtable discussion of the latest trends and developments in mold inspection and measurement technology highlights the cycle time reduction, accuracy improvement and cost decrease benefits.
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The Right Machine Eases Moldmaker’s Transition to Five-Axis
“This new technology allows us to be more efficient, which in turn means we can take on more work and also meet the short turnaround times our customers need.”
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Reshoring Efforts Conquer Time-to-Market Crunch
Challenges in time compression, complexity, communication and cost force project back to the States.
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Advanced Manufacturing Consortium: Addressing the Skilled Labor Shortage
“Programs like these are working on rebranding manufacturing into a more computerized and clean environment views—and most important—jobs that will lead to other careers, such as designing, supervision, quality and/or leadership.”
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Third Annual Women in Manufacturing Summit Coming This Fall!
For those of you who are following along, this is day two of female-related blogs! I can’t help myself—just had to share. Nearly 300 leading women manufacturing executives, managers and supervisors from across the country will gather in Detroit this October for the third annual Women in Manufacturing Summit.
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Innovation in Mold Design!
Last month I had the opportunity to write about one of my favorite topics—wine—when I learned of how precision mold manufacturer R&D/Leverage helped Stacked Wines bring its innovative wine packaging to market.
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Watch IMTSTV to See What's New in the Manufacturing World!
Did you know that each month IMTSTV delivers programming for the International Manufacturing Technology Show Community and what's exciting in the world of manufacturing technology? Now you do!
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Business Succession Planning Protects Shop in the Long-Term
How family-owned businesses can secure their success for future generations.
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Moldmaker Does Not “Wine” about Precise Undercut and Cross Cavitation Challenges
As a start-up, with limited capital and a new concept, we needed to get into production fast and have the design and tooling right—the first time. “R&D/Leverage proved to be a great partner to work with, and they delivered on all counts.
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Molder’s Increased Tooling Capabilities Accelerate Time-to-Market
Spectrum Plastics Group—headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, but with additional facilities in Colorado, Connecticut and New York—provides custom manufacturing solutions for its customers in the medical, aerospace, defense and precision industrial industries. An alliance with an unnamed tool and design manufacturing company in the Twin Cities area is the next step for the company to meet its customers’ needs for high quality, quick-turn tooling.
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First the President--Now Reshoring Recognition!
On the heels of hosting a POTUS at an event I attended last month, The Rodon Group has been recognized by a leading Internet Marketing Software company—HubSpot—for its “Cheaper than China” marketing campaign.
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