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WEBINAR: Maintaining Your Plant’s Performance During Economic Uncertainty
August 5th-10:00am

The Manufacturing Association for Plastics Processors (MAPP) will host a webinar titled "Maintaining Your Plant’s Performance During Economic Uncertainty" with special presenters from Trane.
   

AMBA Online Seminar -
Protecting International Mold/Tool Shipments

August 5, 2009
Noon-1pm Central Time

Tooling and Mold Lien Laws were presumably designed to help secure payment for tooling/molds shipped in the United  States. What about international shipments?
  

AMBA Online Seminar -What Are Banks Looking for in Today’s Economy?
August 12, 2009
Noon-1pm Central Time

The economy has been down for some time and financing is harder than ever to get.  A lack of capital and financing can severely impact your business. Contrary to what you read in the papers, banks are lend-ing.  But you need to know the types of financing that are available, what to do make your company bank-able and how to present your story to lenders to maximize your chances for success.


COMING SOON


AMBA Fall Conference
September 13-15
Washington D.C.
 

Design & Manufacturing Midwest
September 21-24
Rosemont, IL 

Plastics Industry Show
Sept. 28 - Oct. 1
Moscow
 

SPE EUROTEC Conf
Sept. 29 - Oct. 3
Marne la Vallee, France


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Avoid Chasing CNC Variability with CAM

By Joel Cassola

Moldmakers who pro-duce tooling for medical devices and many other high precision molded products have been un-der increasingly greater pressure to reduce the variability of tooling components manufac-tured on their CNC equipment. One way they attempt to do this is by carefully adjusting offsets in the CAM pro-gram to compensate for variations in their equip-ment’s volumetric acc-uracy. Sometimes this works, other times not. Either way, the toolmak-er pays a heavy penalty.

                
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Chaotics: The Business of Man-aging and Mar-keting in the Age of Turbulence 

By Philip Kotler and John A. Caslione 

 Book Description:

We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos. Complete with metrics and measurements, "Chaotics" outlines a powerful new system for managing waves of uncertainty affecting customers, employees, and other stakeholders. In this climate of increased turbulence, no organization can survive with less.

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