Leadership
Concours Technologies (Formerly Concours Mold Inc.)
This conversation with the Canadian shop offers a snapshot of its operations.
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A Practical Field Guide for ISO Best Practices
By focusing on existing people, processes and culture, ISO can help mold builders achieve dramatic improvements in sales, productivity, quality, service and profitability. Here is a practical field guide to ISO 9001.
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How Do You Validate Your Molds?
“Part simulation is fast. It’s something that can be done up front without impacting the overall development time."
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Creating an Effective Supplier Management Scorecard
Keeping Up with ISO columnist, Lewis Yasenchak wants to help moldmakers measure performance metrics across their supply chain with this quick-read. How often do you check your supplier management scorecard?
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How Data-Driven is Your Company?
How do you use data in your business? Everyone uses it to some degree in the way they manage people and the “heat, light and music” stuff (a.k.a. overhead) that every company contends with. But how far does your company take data?
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Keeping Up with ISO: ISO 9001:2015 Certification Takeaways
One way to properly manage the moldmaking supply chain is to implement ISO guiding principles that govern every activity within a mold shop or molding facility.
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Throwback Thursday: How to Stay Out of the ERP Trap
“Soft areas” in moldmaking are a real challenge, meaning shop floor management, MRP, ERP, scheduling software, program management, quoting software—especially as Industry 4.0 takes off. With that in mind, here is a look back at the ERP issue.
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Modular Technology on Demand
An upgradable approach to flow-control technology offers flexibility and could help ease the decision on whether the technology is worth the investment.
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SLIDESHOW: Technology Showcase, Inspection and Measurement
No matter what size moldmaking operation you may own or work at, you need inspection and measurement at critical stages of the process to drive efficiencies and profitability. So here are a few of the latest products we’ve heard about that you may also wish to see.
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SLIDESHOW: Technology Showcase, After K
By all accounts K 2016 was a success. According to show management, attendees were delighted with the wealth of new technical developments presented by raw materials producers, machinery manufacturers and producers of semi-finished and technical parts. Here are some technology highlights.
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