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Reaching Out to a Different Market to Survive Tough Times
This mold manufacturer has reassessed its market base and began dabbling in the energy industry based on its experience with CNC machining—making it a natural transition.
Read MoreAdapting Scouting Skills to Your Shop
A common factor among all of us in achieving our goals— whether personal or business—is our past associations.
Read MoreMold Storage Packets Store Supplies, Useful in Lean Manufacturing
Mold kitting packets from Canopies by Fred (Seattle, WA) are packets that are used to assist in implementing a lean production process.
Read MoreRecession Continues, but It Is Moderating
39.6 Total Mold Business Index for June 2009 The total Mold Business Index is a weighted average of the sub-indices for new orders, production, employees, backlog, exports and supplier deliveries.
Read MoreHow Success Happens
All too often lately, I sense a feeling of entitlement in some areas of manufacturing. I know how that sounds—U.S. manufacturers rightly believe that they’ve been bludgeoned over the past 20 years or so by government trade policies, along with a shifting perception in our culture that a career in manufacturing is in some way less-than-noble/lucrative/rewarding. But there are some SMMs that I speak with who say things are hopeless. They tell me that their industry and government have abandoned them, and there’s nothing they can do about it.
Read MoreCost of Ownership: A Lifetime of Molding Savings
“There’s nothing more expensive than a cheap mold,” has been said by many a tooling engineer after a bargain of a mold began bleeding profits.
Read MoreMoldMaking Expo 2009: Get Organized
Surveys conducted by sister publication, Plastics Technology (www.ptonline.com) as well as MapYourShow (www.mapyourshow.com)—developed in 2005 by Gardner Publications, Inc. to provide state-of-the-art trade show mapping and planning solutions.
Read MoreMRP: Why You Need It and What It Can Do for Your Business
Choosing the right manufacturing resource planning system and ensuring it is implemented correctly will yield great benefits to your shop’s efficiency.
Read MoreGetting out of Survival Mode
Of course, trying economic times like these call for cutting back in certain areas, but smart shops understand that attending industry-specific events.
Read MoreSeven Ways to Strengthen Your Business
Business owners who use their time to improve their business and seize every possible opportunity—rather than wasting it on constant worry-ing—are the ones who will make it through the economic downturn. Play your cards right and you may even come out of these financial hard times with an even more prosperous business than you had before.
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