PRD, Inc.: Remaining Agile in a Changing Market
PRD, Inc.: Remaining Agile in a Changing Market
by Dianna Brodine
Profile Spring 2008
Pop Quiz: A customer calls with an urgent need for a low-volume...
A Continuous Improvement Idea: Update Your Costing and Quoting Process
by Tim Lewis
The concept of continuous improvement is well established and has proven invaluable for increasing consistency and efficiencies in manufacturing processes. However, few...
MAPP Report: 2007 Raw Materials Survey
by Staff
How does a plastics manufacturing business maintain profit margins in a marketplace in which nearly 40 percent of its manufacturing costs fluctuate on...
Flying Blind? Defining Cost Drivers Leads to Success
by Jeff Mengel
When it comes to running your business, how do you gauge conditions? Do you stick your finger out the window - flying...
Focus on Efficient Operations
by Staff
The pressure is on plastics processors to produce low-cost parts for their customers while still maintaining a comfortable profit margin. Energy and materials...
TEAM 1 Michigan: Forward Thinking for Upward Growth
by Plastics Business
Profile Winter 2008
In 1987, three sales engineers saw an opportunity with the Japanese transplant Tier 1 automotive suppliers located in south...
The True Cost of Doing Business in China
by Kym Conis
Industry Fall 2007
Open a newspaper or magazine, turn to the business section, and its no surprise that one of the most...
World Class Plastics: Simplicity Equals Success
by Dianna Brodine
Profile Fall 2007
More is not necessarily better. World Class Plastics is a prime example of a plastics molder that has successfully...
To Decorate or Not to Decorate – That is the Question!
by Jeff Peterson
Custom injection molders and other processors often have struggled to determine if decorating the molded parts they produce should be accomplished in-house...
Modern Day Midas: Changing Metal to Plastic at Thogus Products Company
by Dianna Brodine
Profile Summer 2007
Thogus Products Company, in Avon Lake, Ohio, has created a niche in the plastics injection molding industry by looking...
