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CUSTOMER PROFILE Name: Plastic Parts, Union Grove, Wisconsin Founded: 1966, 2nd generation family firm Key Focus: si...
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Plastics processors should continually evaluate their operations to decrease human error by improving automation. Man...
CUSTOMER PROFILE Name: Precimold Inc., Candiac (Montreal), Quebec Founded: 1966 Key Focus: specializing in small, cu...
Plastics processors stand to gain massive benefits from choosing the right ERP system: Everything from being able to ...
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Executive Summary Businesses are looking to make technology investments to prepare for growth. But with the economic ...
With over 700 employees and 3 plants, Martin’s Toys & Proarce are two Mexican injection molders that specialize...
King Plastics, located in Orange, CA, is a 55-year-old privately held company that manufactures injection-molded plas...
Do you have automated reports showing every day or every shift’s efficiency by work order? Can your operators access ...
Grupo Perplast (Naucalplan, Mexico) satisfies customer needs through plastic injection and mold making. Since 1981, t...
Calico Precision Molding designs and produces custom parts and components for the automotive, aerospace, military, m...
Since 1999, Valley Extrusions, a custom precision profile extruder that can handle 100 to 20,000 pieces an hour and r...
Successfully implementing an integrated solution must include the complete production process in order to provide ...
For more than 22 years, Matriplast has produced rigid containers, specifically for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, ind...
Successfully implementing an integrated solution must include the complete production process in order for it to pro...
Founded in 1988, E. Hofmann Plastics provides full-service, in-house design, manufacturing, decoration, assembly, pac...
For more than 20 years, Versaprofiles has specialized in value-added thermoplastic extrusion manufacturing, with a fo...
Inventory & Traceability – Control your entire inventory from order entry to shipping....
Since 1992, L-D Tool & Die, a privately-owned mold-maker, and custom injection-molding company has been designing...
For more than 25 years, B&C Plastics has been making stock and custom, blow-molded polyethylene containers such a...
By Rebecca Reid, managing editor MRPII/ERP for Plastics Processors Melvin O’Leary, president and CEO of Meredith Sprin...
Many innovative, growth-oriented extruders and molders expand rapidly early on and remain profitable and successful, but...
Plastics processors strive to establish and improve controls that will help them be proactive in their decision making. ...
Profits often hide beyond the ability to pinpoint them and make accurate, timely course corrections. Beyond our control...
Are you feeling positive or anxious about the anticipated profitability projections? Is your business forced to carry a...
Are you confirming orders, scheduling production and managing inventory the same way you always have just out of habi...
Do you perceive that improving your molding or extrusion business’ capacity to better manage, work smarter, make better,...
Can you afford to keep investing in customizing old technology while trying to gain efficiency in your plastic processin...
We meet them all the time, at trade shows, association events and through industry referrals: Molders and Extruders who ...
Not paying attention to the widening gap between your internal processes and optimizations being realized through new te...
You keep a close watch on sales, daily production numbers, and complete a profit & loss statement at the end of each...
Dashboards provide executives with real-time, visually attractive and easily interpreted displays of critical informa...
Did you know that 50% of ERP projects fail as a general rule? When it takes too long to implement, it is a telling sign ...
Production profitability in the molding or extrusion businesses is multifaceted and typically spans multiple data manage...
The contrast between True Costing vs. Being Profitable Every plastics manufacturer has some idea of what their ...
For a plastics manufacturer, mold cycle time is perhaps the most critical measure of performance. Mold cycle time is the...
Constant and continuous commitment to process improvements Plastics companies can be grouped into two categor...
How many times a year do you have to call your customers to ask for time extension? How many times a week do you have...
When was the last time you looked at improving your internal process? If it wasn’t reviewed within the last year, then y...
Do you know what the financial profits were from your production shifts yesterday? Do you know what a 10% improvement i...
How many of your key employees are “Baby boomers”? Will they retire in less than 1 year, 3 years or 5 years? Are you r...
Your current inventory management practices might be hiding costs, grinding your profits and limiting your sales! For p...
Plastic processors often experience delayed product shipments caused by errors, obsolete production schedules and materi...
Are your key managers and administrative staff compiling your production entries into spreadsheets and formatting report...
Being a plastics processor is tough. You know you need an integrated system to improve margins, eliminate errors and wor...
Do you ship cash along with your packaged products? As you ship your molded or extruded product, have you taken into a...
Blow molder B&C plastics was trying to survive in today’s business world with yesterday’s technology. Then an invest...
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Robert A. Larson – Industry Consultant To tell you the truth, when I started the process of writing this article, I wa...
As a proud member of the SPE association, I was asked to put my last 20 years of experience in the software industry to ...
