Booklist: Telling Your Story
Facts and figures will only take a company so far. To truly engage employees, customers, prospects and other business stakeholders, there must be an...
A First Economic Look at the Trump Administration
by Chris Kuehl, managing director
Armada Corporate Intelligence
Thus it begins – at least formally. What kind of economic growth does the Trump administration seek? What...
21st Century Leadership Intelligence
by Magi Graziano, CEO
Conscious Hiring® and Development
Being an effective leader of people in today's world seems to be much more complicated than in years...
Material Development for 3D Printing
by Brittany Willes, contributing editor
Plastics Business
In the past few years, injection molders have gone from using 3D printers almost exclusively to create prototypes to...
People are Not Plastic: Four Challenges Facing the Industry
by Darryl Warren, president
D. Gene Alliance
Employees do not perform or respond as predictably as plastic. If they did, our job in managing human capital...
2017 Plastics Industry Outlook: Optimistic and Automated
by Ashley Turrell Burleson, operations support specialist
MAPP, Inc.
More than 90 percent of plastics processing executives anticipate either steady or increased business activity for 2017,...
Preventing Unscheduled Mold Stops
by Steve Johnson, president
MoldTrax Maintenance Solutions
Every molder's goal is the same: to efficiently produce quality parts on time, regardless of the type of product...
Focus on Lead Times: Using QRM to Get Ahead
by Lara Copeland, contributing editor
Plastics Business
Over 30 years ago, at a time when a new home in the US cost an average of $90,000...
Advanced Injection Molding Simulation of Fiber-Filled Materials
by Matt Proske, vice president
SIGMA Plastic Services, Inc.
Improving mechanical properties and/or weight reduction requires finding ways to improve stiffness while reducing weight. Fiber-filled polymer...
Association News
HR On-Boarding and Training Checklists Available
MAPP conducted a benchmarking activity to collect on-boarding and training checklists from MAPP member companies.
Member companies submitted their on-boarding...
