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  • Turning Data into Action: Simplifying Mold Operations

    Mold builders’ customers face increasing pressure to optimize asset management – balancing uptime, traceability and compliance without overcomplicating processes or disrupting daily operations.
    Read More Turning Data into Action: Simplifying Mold Operations
  • MD&M West: The Gateway to Manufacturing Solutions

    MD&M brings together the entire manufacturing network in one location, offering access to innovation across five key industry sectors: MedTech, automation, design and manufacturing, plastics and packaging.
    Read More MD&M West: The Gateway to Manufacturing Solutions
  • Mold Builders Again Experience Wage Growth Slower than Inflation

    The 2025 AMBA Wage & Salary Report continues to show a familiar trend that mirrors last year’s results: rising wages and salaries across the US mold building workforce, albeit at…
    Read More Mold Builders Again Experience Wage Growth Slower than Inflation
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    Beyond Conformal Cooling: 3D Metal Printing, a Versatile Technology for Mold Builders

    By Liz Stevens, writer, The American Mold Builder 3D metal printing, a form of additive manufacturing (AM), has earned a reputation among mold builders for the complex conformal cooling channels…
    Read More Beyond Conformal Cooling: 3D Metal Printing, a Versatile Technology for Mold Builders
  • Mold Manufacturing 2026: Industry Leaders Share What’s Ahead

    As the plastics industry approaches the end of 2025, it stands at a crossroads – balancing innovation and technological advancements with ongoing supply chain disruptions, regulatory pressures, shifting market demands…
    Read More Mold Manufacturing 2026: Industry Leaders Share What’s Ahead
  • Key Talent Takeaways: Employee Recruitment, Retention and Culture

    By Rachael Pfenninger, director of strategic execution, AMBA For US mold manufacturers, access to skilled labor continues to be both an impediment to profitability and a constraint on capacity, making…
    Read More Key Talent Takeaways: Employee Recruitment, Retention and Culture
  • Cimatron

    Technical Focus: Software Solutions

    A look at software solutions in mold manufacturing to streamline the processes of design, simulation and production by integrating tools, such as CAD/CAM, mold flow analysis or CNC programming, to…
    Read More Technical Focus: Software Solutions
  • Automation in the Tooling Industry

    By Edward Bassous, management consultant, R.E.R. Software, Inc. For the past decade, the buzzwords in the tooling industry have revolved around automation and Industry 4.0. Professionals have heard countless speakers emphasize…
    Read More Automation in the Tooling Industry

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