Regulations
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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Molder Only Runs One Mold with Fast Servo Motor— Instead of Two
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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Four Facts about High-Performance Copper Alloys
Improve your global competitiveness by using high-performance copper in your molds.
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Adding Molding Capabilities Strengthens Moldmaking
In a highly competitive market, offering your customers molding services in addition to mold manufacturing is a wise business decision to differentiate your company from the competition.
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The Dielectric Decision: Water or Oil
The emergence of today’s technologically advanced oil-based wire EDMs is an opportunity for the average U.S. mold builder to set himself apart from the competition.
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Worldwide Moldmaking Business Conditions
2010 World Tooling Conference: ISTMA Conference, International Pattern-Model Makers Congress and an Inbound Trade Mission.
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Creating a Competitive Cost Model in the U.S.
Recent China trends present opportunities for U.S. manufacturers and supply chains.
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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Early Collaboration, Part Design Involvement Key to Global Growth in Packaging
This mold manufacturer has achieved success by partnering with manufacturers in the packaging and closure markets on innovative plastic part designs—not simply providing a mold quote.
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.
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