Business Strategy
How to Maximize your Marketing Budget, Part 2
The call to action from our last article was to identify attributes about your company that attract, maintain and grow your business. Hopefully, you took my advice and asked your customers. Now you need to determine, deploy and evaluate the right marketing option to get your message out.
Read MoreThe Mold Shop Puzzle, Creating Constructive Change: Lean
The first and hardest step in the lean process is recognizing that your perfectly functioning shop can be improved.
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Discuss and Debate
An event to help you better design, engineer, build, repair, maintain and manage your mold manufacturing operations.
Read MoreIllinois Reshoring Initiative
The Illinois Reshoring Initiative is an industry-led program intended to bring orders and jobs back to Illinois manufacturing companies. The Initiative will achieve this goal by helping manufacturers recognize that local production actually reduces their Total Cost of Ownership of purchased parts and tooling, improves their balance sheet and makes product innovation more effective.
Read MoreElectrolux Supplier Search Highlights Supply Chain Strategy
The event highlights a new regionally-focused supply chain strategy for Electrolux in the Southeast.
Read MoreToolTalk: The Trend in Capital Spending for New Equipment Bodes Well for Mold Demand
So when it comes time for a mold shop to forecast its future business levels, one must seek out alternative indicators. One indicator that we consistently monitor is the trend in capital spending on industrial equipment.
Read MoreHow Design and Manufacturing Can Better Communicate
With the appropriate digital tools, product design teams can better align beautiful organic designs with manufacturing requirements early in the game.
Read MoreCollaboration Leads to Complete Turnkey System
To meet the special needs of this project, ICU, Husky and Tech Mold worked together to design a complete turnkey system—including machine, mold, hot runner and temperature controller.
Read MoreExecutive Decision Making in a Customer-Centric Org, Part 1
Incorporating the balance between profitability, prioritization, investment options and timing—all tied to learning from voice of the customer.
Read MoreCreating Constructive Change: Sales Applied
There are several shops that achieved their sales goals within the past year through a solid sales process and achievable goals.
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