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ICYMI--MMT Chats: Hot Rods, Performance, Predictable Manufacturing and Building a Legacy

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges chats with three team members of Eden Tool Company and Eden Manufacturing to learn the "details" about how this mold builder also became a manufacturer of engineered medical components. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Leadership

ICYMI, MMT Chats: Mold Design Meets Product Development & Education

For this MMT Chat, my guest is Rick Seaberg, an engineering manager for Medline Industries of Northfield, Illinois. He is also one of MMT’s newer Editorial Advisory Board members. Rick and I take a trip down memory lane and then look forward to today’s trends and challenges in mold design and engineering. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Sales

MMT Chats: The Merging, Marketing and Manpower of a Moldmaking/Molding Company

For this MMT Chat, my guest is Andy Peterson CEO of Pyramid Molding Group (Industrial Molds and Pyramid Plastics) in Rockford, Illinois, who shares his take on the strengths of bringing a mold shop and molding facility together under one group.

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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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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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FAQ

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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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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Education

MoldMaking Technology's Top-Viewed Content 2020: MMT Chats

These popular MMT Chat posts from 2020 feature a range of topics, from COVID-19, a mentorship program, how to grow your business and other important topics. Revisit some of your favorites, or take a look at what you’ve missed. 

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Sales

The Role of Social Media in Manufacturing

Charles Daniels CFO of Wepco Plastics shares insights on the role of social media in manufacturing, how to improve the “business” side of a small mold shop and continually developing culture.  

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Leadership

MMT Chats: Earning a "Masters of Business" in Four Months?

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges chats with Joe Cherluck, President of Best Tool & Engineering about transforming his mold shop into a mold business with a free “masters of business” that covers managing growth, money metrics, leadership, marketing, sales and negotiation. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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Analysis

MMT Chats: MMT Advisory Board Wraps Up Year with Current Data Trends

MoldMaking Technology’s Editorial Advisory Board has been virtually meeting this year due to the virus. Here is a peek at our last meeting of 2020 that involves a snapshot of some industry data and analysis about this pandemic recession shared by Gardner Intelligence Chief Economist Michael Guckes.

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MMT Chats: Breaking Down Design, Data, and More

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges chats with the program and sales manager for Michael Tool and Mold of Ontario Canada about mold design and data trends.

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