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How to Maximize your Marketing Budget, Part 2
The call to action from our last article was to identify attributes about your company that attract, maintain and grow your business. Hopefully, you took my advice and asked your customers. Now you need to determine, deploy and evaluate the right marketing option to get your message out.
Read MoreThe Mold Shop Puzzle, Creating Constructive Change: Lean
The first and hardest step in the lean process is recognizing that your perfectly functioning shop can be improved.
Read MoreIllinois Reshoring Initiative
The Illinois Reshoring Initiative is an industry-led program intended to bring orders and jobs back to Illinois manufacturing companies. The Initiative will achieve this goal by helping manufacturers recognize that local production actually reduces their Total Cost of Ownership of purchased parts and tooling, improves their balance sheet and makes product innovation more effective.
Read MoreElectrolux Supplier Search Highlights Supply Chain Strategy
The event highlights a new regionally-focused supply chain strategy for Electrolux in the Southeast.
Read MoreToolTalk: 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.
Read MoreProMold Plastics: Modern Management Model Yields Success
“Our vision is to continue to be a valuable asset and resource in the injection molding industry and a preferred partner in the plastics industry, in addition to being a valuable asset to our customers.”
Read MoreReady to Capitalize on the New World of Mold Manufacturing
When Paragon D & E’s (Grand Rapid, MI) President David Muir wants to convey his feelings on the level of success the team has reached over the years, he uses the three D’s—deliberate, diligence and determination.
Read MoreHow Design and Manufacturing Can Better Communicate
With the appropriate digital tools, product design teams can better align beautiful organic designs with manufacturing requirements early in the game.
Read MoreExecutive 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.
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