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REVIEW

IMTS 2006

Sept 6-13, Chicago, IL 

The International Manu-facturing Technology Show concluded success- fully, having introduced numerous new products and services by leading manufacturers. Highlights included the showing of the award-winning Hypo-Surface™, the world’s first digital architecture, and also hourly presentations of BattleBotsIQ, an exclu-sive road show version of the wildly popular television robot battles.

Plastics Design & Molding

Sep 26-28 -Telford 

Nearly 200 exhibitors signed up for PDM 06, up 20% from last year. In addition, floor space was extended as a result of strong demand for stands from exhibitors.  As well as molding machines, ancillaries & automation, the exhibition showcased the products & services of polymer suppliers, color-ant companies, plastics manufacturers, mould makers, product design-ers, rapid prototypers, & printing/coating suppliers.

PREVIEW

Fabtech 2006

Oct 3-5 - Atlanta, GA

The FABTECH Interna-tional & AWS Welding Show is the largest event in North America dedi-cated to showcasing a full spectrum of metal form-ing, fabricating, tube & pipe, and welding equip-ment and technology. 

MassPlastics

Oct 25-26 - Fitchburg, MA 

The MassPlastics™ Trade Show provides a forum for the plastics industry, fea-turing exhibit space &  ind-ustry specific workshops attended by hundreds of exhibitors & thousands of attendees coming from all over the country to meet in North Central MA, origin of the plastics industry.

COMING SOON

EuroMold 2006
Nov 29 - Dec 2
Frankfurt, Germany

 

Plastics News China Forum 2006
Nov 14-15 - Rosemont, IL

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Keeping Molds Production Ready and Reliable

By Steve Johnson
  
A mold repair techni-cian’s job has always been to make molds run—any how, any way … just make it run. Intangibles such as technique, method-ology, maintenance efficiency, accountability and continuous improvement have never been much of a factor in assessing the performance of a custom repair facility or a proprietary mold repair shop or an individual’s skill level. Performance was based on missed production schedules … period.

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Battered by waves of downsizing since the 1980s, talented men and women no longer seek job security from one company. This is the true hallmark of the new economy—not fleeting dot-coms and IPOs, but a fast-moving, free-agent workforce with the flexi-bility to jolt productivity. Managers, meanwhile, must grab hold of this shifting group of talent and squeeze more work out of them than ever before, particularly in a tight economy. The trouble is, their traditional source of power over employees—the corpor-ate ladder—is dead and gone. Using richly detai-led, never-before-pub-lished accounts, Bruce Tulgan reveals how America's most influe-ntial corporations, including Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, General Motors, J.P. Morgan, and J.C. Penney, are repla-cing obsolete recruitment and retention efforts with breakthrough solutions.
 

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