Marketing
Electrolux Supplier Search Highlights Supply Chain Strategy
The event highlights a new regionally-focused supply chain strategy for Electrolux in the Southeast.
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ToolTalk: The Trend in Capital Spending for New Equipment Bodes Well for Mold Demand
So when it comes time for a mold shop to forecast its future business levels, one must seek out alternative indicators. One indicator that we consistently monitor is the trend in capital spending on industrial equipment.
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Executive Decision Making in a Customer-Centric Org, Part 1
Incorporating the balance between profitability, prioritization, investment options and timing—all tied to learning from voice of the customer.
Read MoreCreating Constructive Change: Sales Applied
There are several shops that achieved their sales goals within the past year through a solid sales process and achievable goals.
Read MoreThe Mold Shop Puzzle: Creating Constructive Change: Sales
When a highly effective, natural salesperson’s habits and instincts are closely observed, common characteristics and actions can be readily tracked. So to help you get started in sales, here are two important first steps.
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Richmond Tooling, Inc.: Tooling, Inc.: Success with Small Mold Building Niche
A group of 11 dedicated employees—several with more than 10 years with the company—are able to keep overhead costs down and pass those savings onto its customers.
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Small Shop HM CS Tool Engineering: The Business Of Customer Service
Despite its location in Cedar Springs, MI—a state that has been hard hit by the economic downturn—CS Tool Engineering, Inc. has landed the 2010 Leadtime Leader Award Small Shop Honorable Mention by constantly investing in technology and offering its customers complete customer service with leadtimes between 10 and 12 weeks.
Read MoreYour Business: The Mold Shop Puzzle, Creating Constructive Change: Training Applied
One mold manufacturer that was faced with the cold realities of adapting or getting eaten by its competition is United Tool and Mold, Inc. (Easley, SC). UTM was founded as a mold builder, but struggled to find its niche in the extremely competitive moldmaking market.
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Savings from the Front Lines: Rebuilding Saves Molders Money
This quarterly series features actual examples of a front-line mold building company presenting new approaches to improve the customer's profitability.
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Manufacturing Solutions: Wait ‘Til Next Year
As 2010 comes to a close, Americans are still struggling with a high unemployment rate, low consumer confidence, declining house prices and an uncomfortably high level of uncertainty about the future.
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