MMT Blog

If you are looking for strategies that will enhance and help speed mold designing, this free webinar presented by Matt Jaworski, a senior subject matter expert for Autodesk Inc.’s Moldflow Simulation Team, is for you.

Join MMT and Autodesk on Thursday, April 26, at 2 p.m. ET for an information-packed hour.

The AMBA Annual Conference held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the first significant event of 2018 geared solely toward moldmaking. It was two full days of making connections and focusing on leadership. Energizing presentations from peers and keynote speakers provided relevant insights that may trigger a significant change in a shop’s company culture or management style.

Breakout sessions, lunch-and-learn presentations and keynote speakers all provided an array of opportunities to learn new ways of managing one’s business through setting goals, implementing new or better processes and bringing employees together as a team with a single purpose. For example, keynote speaker David Horsager, MA, CSP, CPAE, is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute. He says that the number one reason for someone to want to work for an organization is trusted leadership. Trust is “a confident belief in an individual or organization,” he says. “A lack of trust is your biggest expense.” He also told attendees that gratitude is the most “magnetic trait” that a person can possess.

The American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) is bringing its popular plant tour workshop to Amerimold as it welcomes mold-building facilities to sign up for a visit to Quest Industries on June 12th in Lapeer, Michigan.

Quest Industries has evolved as a leader in innovation and technology since 2001. With its roots in detailed machined parts and expertise in high-end molds, Quest is able to showcase a large amount of firepower when it comes to diverse, complex jobs. Precision horizontal CNC machines, EDM and electrode cutting centers and precision CNC turning machines all contribute to efficiency and quick turnarounds on highly involved projects.

If you are connected to the surface finishing industry through machining or manufacturing materials, then Cleveland is where you will want to be June 4–6 when the community gathers at the Sur/Fin Manufacturing and Technology Trade Show and Conference hosted by the National Association for Surface Finishing.

Current and past editorial advisory board (EAB) members and original supporting suppliers have been reaching out lately to share what MoldMaking Technology (MMT) has meant to their industry for the past two decades. Here are some of their gracious compliments and motivating feedback:

“MoldMaking Technology arrived on the scene at just the right time to address the moldmaking market and to provide moldmakers and their suppliers with the perfect place to share. The MMT team awkwardly stepped into the market, as no one believed it could compete with other established, but more general, magazines. However, suppliers in need of direct communication with moldmakers embraced it. Fueled by suppliers’ need to reach moldmakers and the industry’s desire to share knowledge unique to the molds themselves, MMT flourished.”