A few months ago I sat down with two business owners — separately, different companies, different industries — and asked them both the same question. “What’s your biggest problem right
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You Don’t Need to Understand AI. You Need to Know What It Can Take Off Your Plate. Posted by Christopher Morewood · PMP · 35 Years Manufacturing & Product
How a $30,000 “savings” became a $120,000 rebuild—and what every engineer should know about long strand glass fiber before committing to tooling. Glass fiber warpage injection molding The part
When “industry standard” pricing doesn’t make sense, sometimes the best solution is a napkin sketch and a talented local tool maker. “We’re going through pins every shift.” That’s the
The 4-Month Paint Rack Problem We Solved With a 3D Printer (And the $500K Disaster We Avoided) We had a problem that looked impossible to solve. An automotive component—four
The Maintenance Worker Who Saved Us $2 Million (And Why We Almost Didn’t Listen) “Ya know, if ya did internal manifold it would fit.” The words came up over
My boss dropped a complicated fuel loading project on my desk and asked for a project scope document. Not a rough outline—a comprehensive scope that would go to all
We were facing a capacity crisis. A new program was coming in, our injection resource planning showed we were running at 90% capacity, and we needed more machines.
The mold sat in our tool room for three months before anyone had the courage to scrap it. Three hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars of hardened steel, precision-machined
The Design Stage Health Check: 9 Questions That Predict Launch Failure I can spot a doomed project three months before the panic sets in. After 35