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Toolroom managers need to help repair technicians become skilled mold troubleshooters and craftsmen rather than tooling replacers and cleaners.

In some cases, shimming is the most cost-effective, short-term method for adding a bit of steel right where its needed to get through a critical production run.

Free webinar on March 30 at 2PM EST offers live scorecard activity that will reveal your toolroom’s 4.0 Mold Maintenance Documentation Capabilities.  

Mark your calendars to attend a free webinar on March 30 at 2PM EST that will help you score your shop’s Industry 4.0 mold maintenance documentation practices.

Molds, and the products they produce, present a variety of challenges for repair technicians, which makes classifying each mold with a degree of difficulty (DOD) essential for efficient and proficient mold repair.

Since the job description, qualifications, direction and goals may not be so clear, assessing a repair technician’s value can be confusing. Objective, tangible metrics are a must.

Improving worker engagement starts with leadership at the manager level or, in our case, the toolroom manager.

Find out in this free webinar that will not only review the changing mold maintenance landscape, explain the importance of a 4.0 culture, break down the 8 factors of mold performance, provide examples of “futile” work order systems, instruct how to create standard terms, it will also score your toolroom’s mold maintenance documentation strategies.

True preventive maintenance lies in accurately monitoring and counting issues and corrective actions over time.

Developing basic cleaning and repair skills among in-house technicians should be the goal of every shop that runs hot runner systems.