Business Strategy
Tooling Transfer: Sampling Success
Fifteen steps to facilitate a smooth tool transfer between the OEM, new molder and your shop.
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LaGrow Consulting: Championing for Coalitions
This one-woman consulting firm has made it her mission to help moldmakers establish coalitions.
Read MoreOverall Equipment Effectiveness
Gemba is a Japanese Term, and literally means gathering of the people/actual place
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It’s a Small World in the Electronics Market
As electronics devices continue to shrink in size, an opportunity arises to enter the world of micro moldmaking to expand your business
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To Rail or Not to Rail
One of the most interesting parts of performing a maintenance capability assessment (MCA) in mold plants around the globe is observing the different styles practiced when repair technicians work on molds. When talking to repair techs about why they like a particular method or tool it is easy to see why they would think there is only one way to do things. It’s simply how they were taught by the older, tenured repair technicians.
Read MoreSupply Chain Risk, Volatility Offer Opportunity
As I write this, reports are circulating about the U.S. economy showing signs of rebounding. But until unemployment begins to rise with any significance and housing foreclosures slow down, I’m skeptical. Without demand, there’s no supply. But as precarious as things are—and as far as U.S. manufacturing has suffered during and before this Great Recession—opportunities do still exist for machining businesses in the U.S.
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Cutting Tool Slashes Cycle Times by 75 Percent
This moldmaker reduces cycle times from 10 hours to two hours with a more durable, faster cutter that also leaves a nice finish.
Read MoreIf You’re Not Meaningfully Unique, You’d Better Be Cheap
These are the words of Doug Hall (www.doughall.com), founder of Eureka! Ranch and P&G brand-building wunderkind. It is also the mantra for the U.S. government’s latest initiative to lead manufacturing in this country into the new century. The goal of the new administration’s plan is to help transition discrete manufacturing companies—small and midsized manufacturers (SMMs)—from the “old” economic model (based on commodity and price) to a “new” economic model based on innovation, technology and “green.”
Read MoreGiving Back
These are tough times in our country and in the industry; however, as I look back, it’s clearly evident that the industry has been very good to many of us.
Read MoreNiche Auto Molds Prove to Be a Profitable for Cavalier Tool
Capitalizing on its specialty of molds for fans and shrouds in the automotive industry—on their own terms with no PPAP—drives this moldmaker’s success.
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