By Dianna Brodine, managing editor The American Mold Builder Recruiting and retaining employees are the critical issues facing the mold building industry. To assist with employee retention, the American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) created the AMBA-certified Skills Certification Program to assess and certify the skills of front-line mold manufacturing workers. By … [Read more...] about Aptitude Testing Gets the Right People in the Door at Industrial Molds Group

By Rachael Pfenninger AMBA Project Manager Understanding how to schedule jobs and maintain efficiency in any mold manufacturing facility can be critical to a business’s ability to win orders and keep existing customers – both of which significantly impact the bottom line. This is why any loss of efficiency (particularly in job programming) is worth tackling as soon as it’s … [Read more...] about Efficiencies in Machine Programming – How Do You Compare?

Editor’s Note: In July of 2019, Delia Treaster, Ph.D., CPE, Ergonomic Technical Advisor from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, presented “Essential Ergonomics” at an Environmental, Health and Safety Summit for the manufacturing industry in Columbus, Ohio. This article is an approved summary of her presentation. Delia Treaster, Ph.D., CPE, Ergonomic Technical Advisor … [Read more...] about The Risk of Repetitive Injury

By Dianna Brodine, managing editor The American Mold Builder In November 2019, Laurie Harbour, president and CEO of Michigan-based manufacturing consulting firm Harbour Results, Inc., presented the results of the annual Automotive Tooling Forecast. In this article, we share some of the data from the report – but the whole story isn’t told by the data alone. Forecast: … [Read more...] about Harbour’s Automotive Tooling Forecast Offers Cautionary Tale for Entire Industry

By Jill J. Johnson, president Johnson Consulting Services Few enterprises truly understand the actual profits generated by the individual sales they make. Most metrics for sales effectiveness are monitored by reviewing top-line revenue results. Yet, the most critical determinant of ongoing business viability is understanding what revenue actually drops to the bottom line … [Read more...] about Understand the Impact of Your Profit Per Sale