Leadership
Innovative Give-Away to Be Presented during Moulding Expo
MEX Team supervising an exemplary product development process with students from Reutlingen University implementing a "real project" for Moulding Expo.
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Toolroom Systems Boost Safety, Productivity
A mold separator and a water leak tester were the right solutions for this Minnesota shop offering both mold and molding operations.
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Metrics for Assessing Maintenance Skills
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.
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Someone’s Got a New “Kitty”
One company's investment in Kitamura machine tools keeps growing and business is growing along with it.
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ICYMI, International Perspective: From Craftsmanship to Production
To be successful, a shop must be better, faster, more efficient and more flexible than the competition, and this requires automation across all of its operations.
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Real-Time and Supply Chain Visibility
With data continuing to be top of mind for today's mold manufacturers, I wanted to share this take on data management.
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Beaumont Technologies Acquires Autodesk MoldFlow’s Material Characterization Business
Beaumont Technologies, Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Autodesk MoldFlow material characterization business that services North America and Europe. The operations, laboratory equipment and proprietary software will be transferred from Ithaca, NY to a new facility in Erie, PA where Beaumont is headquartered.
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Gardner Business Intelligence 2017 Economic Forecast
The moldmaking industry relies heavily on various manufacturing sectors to maintain growth and profitability, so it is vitally important to understand where those sectors are headed economically in order for mold builders to have a view of what 2017 and beyond will look like. Gardner Business Intelligence provides its 2017 economic outlook here.
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Are Spreadsheets Dead Weight?
Shops often share their data management woes, so when I came across these five reasons for making the change from spreadsheets to a real-time, graphical job schedule, I just had to pass them along.
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Throwback Thursday: Mexico and Moldmaking
Mexico is a hot topic these days and back in 2002 we covered insights from moldmakers who traveled to that region to learn the pros and cons of establishing operations.
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