Article: Stepping outside the box: re-thinking processes can help moldmakers become industry leaders.(moldmaking)(Makino Inc.)(Advertisement)

Customers are becoming more demanding of their suppliers. Toyota Motors is pushing for a fifty percent reduction in mold cost. Honda Motors is engaged in an extremely high quality mold program that will yield mold approval upon first trial. Nissan Motors has a "180 Activity Program." All of these programs require you to think and operate differently. At Makino, we encourage our customers to look at things differently to get that extra edge over the competition. If it applies, we want to get them out of the RUT--a Recurring Uniform Trap. Companies doing things the same way they have been doing them for the last 10 or 15 years are probably stuck in that RUT.

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