Education
MMT Chats: Cross-Generational Mentorship: Participants Share Their Journey
MoldMaking Technology takes a broader look at the value proposition of mentoring by launching and completing a pilot mentorship program.
WatchHaimer USA partners with Titans of CNC organization
The collaboration will focus on developing and delivering global, high-level manufacturing education to make machinists more efficient and productive.
Read MoreHow to Learn Mold Design Virtually
Plastics Engineering program instructors share their strategies for successful virtual learning for hands-on injection mold design.
Read MoreVirtual Learning Is Taking Off in Moldmaking
If you were unable to attend Amerimold Connects, you can experience our version of virtual learning by watching all of the recorded live-stream presentations on the Amerimold Expo website.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Virtual R&D and Teaching Plastic Injection Mold Design
New Editorial Advisory Board member Davide Masato, an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, joined me for a 20-minute video chat about the importance of plastics engineering, and how COVID-19 changed the faculty's approach to teaching mold engineering and plastics research.
WatchMMT Chats: Working On and In an Apprenticeship Program
Four years later I follow up with two young moldmaking professionals who continue to help develop the apprenticeship program that got them to where they are today.
WatchMold Builder Tools Up to Produce 10,000+ Ear Protectors
Since learning how Westminster Tool was embracing change, leading and communicating during COVID-19 a few months ago, I found out that they tooled up to support their local community with ear protectors too.
Read MoreAdapting to New Ways of Working During COVID-19
Mold material suppliers are in the fight against COVID-19 just like their mold-building customers, and learning similar lessons too such as the benefits of going paperless and working remotely.
Read MoreMMT Chats: Vials for the Vaccine/Antibody Testing
COVID has made work a little more challenging but it is also teaching teams “to do things a little bit differently” so they can turn jobs around a lot faster. MMT Editorial Director Christina Fuges chatted with one Illinois mold builder and molder who did not take on PPE, but instead, focused on tooling for vials used to collect DNA for vaccine/antibody development.
Read MoreHurco to Host Job Shop Automation Webinar
Hurco will host a job shop automation webinar June 16 at 2:00 PM (EDT).
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