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We are proud to announce the Grand Opening of our new location. As of November 1, 2014 Midwest Mold Services Inc. has opened a Hudsonville Michigan office with a Senior Program Manager and Account Manager to service our “West Coast” customers. For appointments or inquiries as to capabilities and services please contact us at techinicalsales@midwestmold.com

Midwest Mold played host to 30 Roseville High School Students from the Career Technical Education Department for the 2014 Manufacturing Day Oct 3rd. The student’s curriculums comprised of automotive, marketing, business and journalism. Groups were organized to personalize the experience as they moved from station to station. There they were able to see the process required for each department, unfold in real time for the construction of plastic injection molds.
Students were given an overview at each station on what it takes to build a mold from design to the final shop product. Each group received a firm understanding of the technology & functions required in Design & Manufacturing. They realized how dependent each department is on it computers, but more so on the teams of highly skilled & specialized individuals it takes to produce the end product.
Some students have applied to college while others haven’t decided as of yet. The tour at Midwest Mold gave each student an opportunity to see the manufacturing industry in action and a possible path for a career in a field they may have not thought about before. By participating in this annual event, Midwest Mold provided each student another avenue to explore and demonstrated the opportunities available to them in the manufacturing sector; one that is too often overlooked.

The annual celebration of Manufacturing Day 2014 is October 3rd.

Midwest Mold is proud to host a plant tour for 30 Roseville High School CTE students. The purpose of the event is to demonstrate to the students, parents, educators, media, customers, suppliers, and the community just how vital manufacturing is in our North American economy. We hope that by allowing a select group of students to see how manufacturing has changed over the years and the opportunities that are available will change how they view the industry. In fact, it has become a more diversified field over the years with special talents from many fields. Manufacturing Day event attendees will learn about many real career opportunities that include.

ACCOUNT MANAGER

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

BUILDING MAINTENANCE

CNC MACHINIST

CNC PROGRAMMER

CONTROLLER

DATA MANAGEMENT (IT)

DESIGNERS

ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHININST

ENGINEERING MANAGER

MANUFACTURING PROCESS MANAGER

MANUAL MACHINIST

MOLDMAKERS/TOOLMAKERS

MOLDING PROCESS TECH

OFFICE MANAGER

OPPERATIONS MANAGER

PROGRAM MANAGER

PURCHASING MANAGER

SALES (DIRECT/INSIDE)

TRANSPORTATION (TRUCK DRIVER)

WELDER

A recent 3-D opportunity presented to Midwest Mold was to create a unique and fully functional see through part. Utilizing 3-D printing capabilities Midwest Mold designed a completely clear test block. Per customer data and requirements the block was created so they could monitor fluid flow throughout the entire part. With objectives understood, work began and was completed with fast and accurate detail. Giving the customer the ability to observe the internal functionality of the entire project.

Do you have an idea that you would like to have printed? You can have one to multiple parts in your hands for a fraction of the cost. With a quick and easy turnaround the benefit for high profit margins increases.

We can help you design anything you can dream up. Are you challenged with an idea? Don’t be! Let us help you.

Definition: Computer generated analysis of plastic resin flow within a runner, gate and cavity of a plastic injection mold.

A pretty simple definition for a program that analyzes all critical functional areas of plastic product designs, reports potential failures and provides an analysis of other vital criteria like fill time, flow, pressures, temperatures, weld lines, sink marks, cooling and warp just to mention a few.

At Midwest, Mold Flow has become a vital component in the building of plastic injection molds. Due in part to the positive impacts it has had by heading off part failures before first tryout, improving cycle times and increasing productivity at plant level for our customer base.

A Mold Flow analysis for fill and pack is performed on each new tool built at Midwest Mold to help assure you of receiving “Success At The Press”.

Hosted by  

Eifel Mold & Engineering and Midwest Mold Services 

Moldmakers Profit by Developing Niche Areas

of ExpertiseTopic of Focus 

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!

 

Click here to register

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.

 

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.