Author: MidwestMold

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Eifel Mold & Engineering and Midwest Mold Services 

Moldmakers Profit by Developing Niche Areas

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Nothing can add more power to your business than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. Creating competitive differentiation is a three-word action phrase that can sum up the strategies of two leading-edge moldmaking companies located in Southeast Michigan: Midwest Mold Services & Eifel Mold & Engineering.

Although unrelated, these two moldmaking companies have integrated a unique blend of technology, innovation, human capital investment and process focus to build substantial market niches. Eifel Mold & Engineering, known best for its automotive interior molds, and Midwest Mold Services, known for its innovative production-based aluminum molds, have both channeled and focused their available resources on becoming really great suppliers to the customers they serve. Although many executives feel they are great suppliers to their customers, few have invested so heavily and taken on the business risks of becoming totally immersed and laser concentrated on narrowly defined market niches.

 

As most moldmaking executives continually search for ways to separate themselves from the pack, both Eifel Mold and Midwest Mold have found that developing superior knowledge bases and becoming identified as lead authorities in their market segments can lead to enriched growth and new business opportunities. Common to both company management teams is the journey out of the great recession to the present. Critical business conditions forced both to shatter long-standing paradigms of being generally good vendors in large market places to being great partners in small market niches.

Benefits of Attending

During this plant tour workshop, attendees will have an outstanding opportunity to tour two different moldmaking facilities: Eifel Mold & Engineering and Midwest Mold Services. During each tour, attendees will engage with employees of each organization while walking the production floor and business office operations, examining project management, design and engineering, manufacturing, special machining services and quality assurance.

For both AMBA member and non-member companies, this is a professional development workshop you simply don’t want to miss!

 

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MICHIGAN CITIZENS STRONG & SAFE

If you are an employee or an employer in Michigan, this information is critical to you and needs to be shared with your family, friends and neighbors. Non business owners likely are unaware of what this proposal is or what it will do to help create and keep jobs in Michigan

MMA has announced our strong support for Michigan Citizens for Strong and Safe Communities’ campaign to help local small businesses create jobs while strengthening local community services – without raising taxes.

  • Stay informed by signing up for email updates at http://strongandsafecommunities.com
  • Be a part of the coalition for Michigan Citizens for Safe and Strong Communities by completing the online form
  • Share the importance of this reform by communicating with your employees. Attendees received a copy of the Michigan Citizens for Safe & Strong Communities Employer Tool Kit which is full of resources to help you. This resource is only for MMA members and should not be posted or distributed. If you’d like a copy of the Employer Tool Kit emailed to you, please contact kopietz@mimfg.org.
  • Share your thoughts on how PPT elimination will impact your business by emailing a testimonial to kopietz@mimfg.org

Be informed and be responsible in helping to make jobs available in Michigan for future generations. It is vitally important to receive a “yes” vote on the August 5th primary election to eliminate the Personal Property Tax (PPT). A “yes” vote will solve a long standing problem for small business by immediately eliminating the disincentive for investment while still providing reliable community funding.

 

Midwest Mold’s expertise in mold and tool building makes us very competitive with rapid prototyping and low volume services. In the case of rapid prototyping, many companies find that low volume tooling can fit their need for sample parts with a more economical solution. For example, instead of getting only three SLA/SLS/3DP parts for $3,000, you may be able to get 100 parts for the same $3,000 investment using low volume tooling. A combination of technology investments, coupled with our employees experiences in short run injection molding, allow us to be competitive. We understand that each customer has different expectations established for his or her program and its our job to listen and suggest the most cost effective and attainable ways of achieving it. Timing, quality, price range, materials, volume, and design are all critical factors that when weighed out to the full extent can determine which is the best choice for you. Questions or comments? Feel free to respond to this post and connect with Midwest Mold!

WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE CHANGES

At Midwest Mold, we understand that changes are constant and our customers have different goals and objectives for their products. Whether they’re an engineering change in our case or a personal change made to better yourself, we all go through them.

What types of changes have you made recently? Whether it be business, lifestyle, or social feel free to share! Were you happy with the change? Do you think you would do it again? What type of results occurred from the changes?  Midwest has gone through some significant changes so far in 2014 and were not stopping there!

Midwest has purchased 3 brand new machines in the 2014 year. Take a look at our new CNC machine cutting through high grade material like a warm butter knife!

We are reinvesting back into ourselves. Adding employees, training, and equipment to further improve our process and overall customer satisfaction.

We have put more emphasis into 3D printing capabilities to expand our product offerings.

We are adjusting internal job duties and responsibilities to remain as efficient and proactive as possible.

The big picture? Overall, these changes were the right thing to do for Midwest Mold in order to keep providing our customers with quality and value filled plastic injection molds and parts. We’re excited for the future ahead and remember, if you’re going to change make sure it’s a change for the better!

 

Midwest Mold is now officially active in the US Governments system for award management. We have now been assigned our Cage Code by the Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The CAGE code is used to support a variety of mechanized systems throughout the government and provides a standardized method of identifying a given legal entity at a specific location.

Midwest Mold is a proud supplier supporting our troops and hiring Veterans.