Leadership
MoldMaking Is Expanding
PDx/amerimold is still your event … with your industry’s leading moldmaking technology and service providers exhibiting the latest products and services they have to offer that are specific to your moldmaking needs, as well as industry leaders presenting alongside customers within a technical conference program with mold manufacturing at its core.
Read MoreStrategic Communications For Management
One of the 10 most valuable lessons I’ve learned about strategic communications in more than 20 years of work in law, government and issue management is this: “Assume the moral high ground early and make your opponent knock you off.” This means highlighting and communicating to key constituencies the elements of a business decision that are in accordance with public sentiments.
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Machine Verification Software Slashes Leadtimes, Builds Confidence
When Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing Corp. (Bristol, RI)—a manufacturer of high-performance components for critical applications primarily for the aerospace industry—was looking for the least expensive way to cut leadtimes, verify cutter paths, and virtually inspect their cut parts, all without sacrificing quality, the company turned to CGTech/Vericut software (Irvine, CA) to accomplish these goals.
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Innovation Lives and Reigns
No place is the phrase “necessity is the mother of invention” more at work than in manufacturing … mold manufacturing.
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Invent a Product—Not Just Its Mold
When Wayne Sikorcin, owner of Craftsman Tool & Mold Co. (Aurora, IL)—a moldmaker turned mold base builder—got frustrated tying water balloons at a family picnic several years ago, he decided to turn that frustration into innovation by using his moldmaking background, experience and connections to develop, design, prototype and mold a device that would tie a knot on a water balloon.
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Mold Base Tooling Improved with Stainless Holder Steel Development
In the early 1980s, leading mold base manufacturing companies challenged the specialty steel suppliers to develop an improved pre-hardened stainless holder steel for use in mold base tooling.
Read MoreStreet Cred: Capitalizing On Current Conditions And Best Practices
There are areas of opportunity for your business, but all may require changing or adapting to capitalize. Change is the single most difficult characteristic to successfully manage for any business at any stage, let alone in times like these when change is so prevalent and harsh.
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Doing the Math on Your Moldmaker's Value
About this series: For those charged with raising the sales of a mold building company, differentiating one’s company from the competition is fundamental. This quarterly series features actual examples of the front-line representative of a mold building company presenting new approaches to improve the customer’s profitability.
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