| WEDNESDAY June 13, 2012 | ||
| KEYNOTE SPEAKERS DATES TBA MM/++ | ||
| Harry Moser Reshoring Initiative Keynote Speaker |  | Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative, working with NTMA, AME, AMT, SME and PMA to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. by helping OEMs better understand the full cost of offshoring and the benefits of reshoring. Harry worked for GF AgieCharmilles, the leading producer of EDM and HSM machine tools, starting as President in 1985 and retiring 12/31/10 as Chairman Emeritus. He writes and speaks nationally on the skilled manufacturing workforce, strategies for competing with LLC countries, strategies for revitalizing U.S. manufacturing and on Pres. Obama’s and Congress’ actions’ and policies’ impacts on manufacturing.
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Bill Wood Mountaintop Economics & Research |  | How to Consume Competitiveness Bill Wood is the Economics Editor for Plastics Technology and MoldMaking Technology magazines, and he the founder and President of Mountaintop Economics & Research, Inc. He has more than 25 years of experience in industrial market analysis, and he supplies market analyses and forecasts to decision-makers in the plastics and metalworking industries. |
Mark Bringle |  | Technology Driving Concept to Car Mark Bringle has been with Joe Gibbs Racing for 16 years. He was the first Manufacturing Engineer hired for the newly formed NASCAR team in the early 1990’s which is owned and operated by Former Head Coach of the Washington Redskins Joe Gibbs. Over the years, he has served in many different roles at Joe Gibbs Racing ranging from R&D in the Engine department, Designer/ Programmer and Manufacturing/Quality Control Department Manager, where he supervised the manufacturing and quality of some 900 different components for the motors and race cars.Today, Mark resides in the executive suite of JGR where he serves as the Technical Sponsorship and Marketing Director for JGR’s NASCAR Cup, Nationwide, Motorcross and Supercross Teams. Mark also serves as a member of North Carolinas Industry Advisory Board which works with all 67 community colleges in the state of North Carolina. Mark resides in Landis, NC with his wife Lori and his 3 children Meagan, Jonathan and Ryan.
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| Gary Jurick VP and General Manager Roush Performance Products | Vertical Integration. Designing and Manufacturing the 2103 ROUSH Mustang | |
| 10:00am-11:30am Panel: How to Capitalize on Your Mold Maintenance and Repair Capabilities -- MM | ||
| Steve Johnson MoldTrax Moderator |  | Steven Johnson is Operations Manager for ToolingDocs, a provider of Mold Maintenance training and Consultation, based in Ashland, OH. His tooling maintenance experience includes eight years as Senior Tooling Engineer for Abbott Laboratories, a leading medical device manufacturer, and 24 years as a toolmaker at Calmar, Inc., rebuilding high cavitation, close-tolerance multi-cavity injection molds as well as blow molds, cutting dies, rubber compression and silicone (LSR) tools. He also designed and developed MoldTrax™, a leading documentation software system for tracking mold performance and maintenance. He authors many articles for various trade magazines along with a regular column for Plastics Technology magazine |
| Randy Winton ToolingDocs Panelist | .jpg) | Randy Winton is the Global Assessment Manager for ToolingDocs, a leading conference and training resource for mold maintenance professionals based in Ashland, Ohio. Winton specializes in providing assessments of molding and mold maintenance operations as well as training organizations on how to optimize their resources to become best-in-class operations. |
| Richard Grimm Automation Plastics Panelist |  | Richard Grimm is the Toolroom Manager for Automation Plastics in Aurora, OH. He has worked in the plastics industry since the age of 18, and has earned both an Associates and Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Since then, Richard has served in several capacities over the years at various companies, including Design Engineer, Process/Tooling Engineer, Production Manager and now his current role at Automation. He joined the team at Automation in 2011, and is leading lean manufacturing initiatives that include formalized training to improve mold maintenance and repair processes. |
| James Bourne SRG Global Panelist | James Bourne has been involved in die-cast and injection mold building and repair for nearly 25 years. He is a tooling supervisor for SRG Global at their Farmington Missouri facility. SRG Global specializes in electroplated trim for the automotive industry. They are also suppliers to the motorcycle and commercial truck industries | |
| Scott Phipps, United Tool Panelist | ||
| 10:00am-10:45am Session: How 3D Printed Tooling Has Taken Prototyping to Another Level-- ++ | ||
Gary D. Bailey xlaFORM, Inc. | ||
| 10:45am-11:30am Session: Exploring Additive Manufacturing Materials to Get Tooling Release Faster -- ++ | ||
| Dan Mishek, Vista Technologies |  | Dan Mishek is the Managing Director and owner of Vista Technologies (VistaTek). Dan has been published in Moldmaking Technology, Injection Molding, Manufacturing Engineering, and Time Compression. He has also presented at the RP&M Show (‘07) in Chicago and Mold Making Expo (’07-’08) in Chicago and Detroit. Dan Mishek graduated from Mount Mercy University in 1997 with a double major in Marketing and Public Relations. Dan is a 3rd generation manufacturer and is passionate about assisting VistaTek’s 1800+ customers and their products. |
| 2:00pm-2:45pm Session: Additive Manufacturing and the Future of Rapid Product Development -- ++ | ||
| Mike Siemer, Innovative Medical Device Solutions | ||
| 2:00pm-3:30pm Panel: How to Save Time and Money with Conformal Cooling -- MM | ||
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| Kevin Klotz MGS MFG Group Panelist | ||
| John Tenbusch Linear Mold Panelist |  | President and owner of Linear Mold & Engineering, Inc. is considered by industry insiders as a trailblazer in the adoption and use of Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) for injection molding. He has over 25 years of experience in plastics, and has led his corporation from its inception nine years ago. Linear’s approach to using DMLS to create conformal cooled tooling inserts has been a game changer by greatly reducing cycle time and improving overall quality for their automotive, industrial and medical customers. Because of this approach, Linear and their customers are now free to focus on design creativity for optimization of mold cooling and have blended this with conventional manufacturing processes for cooling. |
| Bill Muldoon NyproMold Panelist |  | Bill Muldoon is a founding partner and president of NyproMold, Inc., of Clinton, Mass., one of the leading global providers of high-precision injection mold solutions. Since its inception in 1987, NyproMold has grown from one location and 10 employees to two locations and more than 150 employees. The company is fully committed to a culture of continuous improvement that delivers quality and innovation to its customers.Before co-founding NyproMold, Mr. Muldoon worked for Nypro Inc. in a variety of mold-making and molding facility management positions. His long-standing belief that mold making is a global market has led to NyproMold’s global focus and multiple joint projects with other international mold-making firms. With exposure to more than 100 mold-making shops in 23 countries, Mr. Muldoon has developed a considerable perspective on mold-making innovation, trends, and practices in the global market |
Technology Assistance from: Single Source Controls | ||
| 2:45pm-3:30pm Session: Technology Advances in Additive Manufacturing -- ++ | ||
| Ed Tackett, RapidTech/ Saddleback College |  | Mr. Tackett is currently the Director of RapidTech the National Science Foundation Center for Additive Manufacturing. Mr. Tackett has been involved with Additive Manufacturing and Product Development for the last 16 years. Mr. Tackett has presented at more than 150 national and international events and hosted numerous workshops for education and industry on Additive Manufacturing and product Development. Mr. Tackett’s broad experience range comes from working with over 700+ early stage start-up companies to fortune 50 companies in Product Development and Additive Technologies. |
| 3:30pm-5:00pm Panel: How to Successfully Employ Five-Axis Machining -- MM | ||
Tim Atwood |  | Tim Atwood has been employed with MSI Mold Builders for 29 years. For the past 23 years Tim has held various management positions in the organization including the CNC department, Programming department, Engineering Services and most recently as Technology Manager. For the last 11 years as the Technology Manager, Tim has been responsible for implementation of new and existing technology organization wide as well as managing the Information Technology department and the Plant Maintenance department in the Iowa location. The focus of his position is to provide technical and manufacturing vision and leadership to MSI and to provide the necessary implementation and monitoring controls to assure MSI’s continued success as a leader and innovator in the marketplace. |
| Gary Eckel Freeman Company Panelist |  | Mr. Gary Eckel is a journeyman tool and die maker with over 30years experience in the tool and die industry. He has been involved in manufacturing custom tooling for multiple industries including Plastic Injection, Die Casting, Investment Casting, Class A Stamping Dies and Vacuum Molds. His emphasis has been in the CAD/CAM arena for the past 20 years. He has seen software evolve from archaic 2-D systems to full blown 3-D smart solids with imbedded manufacturing information that can be utilize in the automation of the programming process. |
| Greg Pozzo Makino Panelist |  | Greg Pozzo is the Application Team Leader for Milling at the Makino Die/Mold Technologies based in Auburn Hills, MI. He is focused on continuous development of new processes and techniques for machining operations to lower cost and increase productivity within the mold industry. The transfer of this technology through training and support of customers is essential to this vision. Greg spent the last 10 years working as a Technical Support Manager in the Cad/Cam Industry in Michigan. His focus was the application of Cam software on various CNC Machine Tools specializing on various MultiAxis applications within the Mold, Tool and Die, Aerospace Industries |
| John Welch, OpenMind Panelist |  | John Welch currently represents OPEN MIND Technologies, Inc. in the US, Eastern time zone. He manages accounts using hyperMILL® & hyperDENT® for advanced machining applications including mold & die, turbo machinery, medical/dental and aerospace. His 30 year career in the CAD/CAM & CNC industries has included technical & marketing positions with the leading software suppliers, Computervision & MDSI. He holds a Bachelors degree in Manufacturing Engineering & Management from Nottingham University and a Masters degree in CAD/CAM from UMIST in the UK. |
| 3:45pm-4:30pm Session: Beyond Prototypes: Using 3D Printing to Create Manufacturing Tools -- ++ | ||
| Jonathan Cobb, Stratasys, Inc. | Jon Cobb has served as Vice President and General Manager for Dimension, the 3D Printing business unit of Stratasys since January of 2002. Mr. Cobb joined the company as Vice President of Marketing in August of 1995. Before joining the company, Mr. Cobb served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Westec Security, Inc. and has held various Sales and Marketing Management positions with Lockheed Martin’s Calcomp Division. Mr. Cobb received a B.S.degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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| THURSDAY June 14, 2012 | ||
| 10:00am-11:30am Panel: How toBe a Part of the Solution to our Skilled Labor Shortage -- MM/++ | ||
| Ed Tackett, RapidTech/Saddleback College Moderator | | Mr. Tackett is currently the Director of RapidTech the National Science Foundation Center for Additive Manufacturing. Mr. Tackett has been involved with Additive Manufacturing and Product Development for the last 16 years. Mr. Tackett has presented at more than 150 national and international events and hosted numerous workshops for education and industry on Additive Manufacturing and product Development. Mr. Tackett’s broad experience range comes from working with over 700+ early stage start-up companies to fortune 50 companies in Product Development and Additive Technologies. |
| Wendy Wloszek, Industrial Mold Panelist |  | Wendy Wloszek is President at Industrial Mold & Machine. I grew up in the company starting my career as a Mold Designer then Engineering Manager and progressing to Head of Operations before assuming her role as President in December '08. I am committed to human development and IMM’s culture of learning. The company uses it’s culture to create security for all the stakeholders. I am a Board member of AMBA (American Mold Builders Association) and MAPP (Manufacturing Association of Plastics Processors). Membership in both organizations frequently exposes me to lean/advance manufacturing techniques and the perspective to better understand customers’ needs. IMM also has a significant focus on the use of technology for communicating. The company has a developed social network and it is used in conjunction with the use of iPads for storing and retrieving Production Scheduling, workpiece planning, a Center for Learning, Employee Handbook, etc. |
| Dean Krager Ferris State Panelist | ||
| Steve Rotman, Apprentice 2000 Panelist |  | Steven Rotman is the President of Ameritech Die & Mold, Inc in Mooresville, NC. Realizing the lack of apprenticeship programs and knowledge of the moldmaking industry and after many failed attempts at hiring and training young people, a relationship was started with a company called Blum. After hearing the vision they had for establishing a strong, aggressive apprenticeship program, Ameritech joined them and four other local partners to start Apprenticeship 2000 (www.Apprenticeship2000.com) in 1995. Since that time Ameritech has been actively participating and recruiting 11th grade students from local high schools. The current ratio of employee who have either successfully completed or are currently going through the apprenticeship is 35 percent. |
| Tom Henry Sandvik Coromant Panelist |  | Tom Henry, Training and Productivity Center Manager at the Schaumburg, IL Productivity Center, has more than 20 years of experience in the metalworking industry. He has held various leadership positions including sales and marketing, applications and metalworking training. His last position prior to joining Sandvik Coromant was Director of Sales & Marketing for a leading industrial metalworking distributor. In his current role, he is part of the Sandvik Coromant US training management team responsible for development, support and management of all Sandvik Coromant training programs and events held within the Schaumburg, IL Productivity Center. He is a driver of Sandvik Coromant’s Smart Event initiative, “Bridging the Skills Gap,” which looks at how metalworking professionals can maintain a workforce with proper knowledge and skills. |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm Panel: How to Retain Customers and Gain New Business -- MM | ||
| Tom Lynn GE Moderator |  | Tom Lynn is Tooling Engineer, Plastics with General Electric Appliances & Lighting in Louisville, KY. He is an engineer, consultant and educator with varied expertise in many phases of plastics and moldmaking, who has played a key role in the advancement of plastics design and moldmaking technology. Lynn joined the plastics industry in 1972 as an apprentice moldmaker in the Chicago area. Upon completion, and after graduating from Triton College, he moved on to mold design, product design and program management while working in medical, consumer products, telecommunications, automotive and appliance industries. During the early 1980s, he worked with the Tool & Die Institute (now TMA), and Triton College as an instructor for trade classes. He has also given seminars for SPE. For the past 11 years, he has been with General Electric Appliances and Lighting, Louisville, Kentucky, as Tooling Engineer working with molders and moldmakers around the world. He is a Six Sigma certified Green Belt. Tom is a strong proponent of U.S.-based moldmaking and molding. Continuing his career at GE, he works with U.S.-based mold shops and molders to promote lean manufacturing, while sharing Six-Sigma practices to help U.S. based companies become more competitive. |
| Joe Grippe Proper Group Panelist | ||
Dave LaGrow | .jpg) | Dave LaGrow is a lifelong resident of Southwest Michigan. His interest in the trade started in his high school trades program. Coloma Schools has a very active tool and die program that exposes students to the positive attributes of the trades. During high school David worked as a part-time employee at a local tool and die shop. His interest grew in tool and die and thought that he wanted to learn more. He started an apprenticeship program at Lake Michigan College and finished after two years. He worked at a few shops before realizing that he wanted to start his own business. With his life savings he started a mold polishing shop (Maximum Mold) in 1996 in his hometown. In 1998, David bought his first CNC machine. In the worst economic times of the trade in 2009, David expanded his business and moved to a neighboring community where he purchased a former tool and die building. With his entrepreneurial spirit and foresight, he has grown his business into a 18 man shop and diversified his business. Maximum Mold is a manufacturer of plastic injection molds, die cast dies and trim dies with polishing capabilities. Maximum Mold serves the auto, agriculture, food, and appliance industies. Maximum Mold became part of the Berrien Tooling Coalition in 2005. They realized the tool and die trade would no longer be "business" as usual due to increasing global competition. The BTC is a group of 19 companies that work together to promote the trade and grow and expand their businesses. |
| John Hill Midwest Mold Panelist | ||
| Neal Goldenberg, Polymer Technologies Panelist |  | Neal Goldenberg represents the second generation of his family owned-and-operated, full-service injection molding company. After more than15 years of working virtually every position within the company, Neal assumed the role of President last year from his father, the company founder. Neal has an undergraduate degree in Finance from UMass - Amherst and worked full-time while attending NYU at night to earn his MBA co-majoring in Operations Management and Entrepreneurship. Previous employment included Pratt & Whitney and Paine-Webber. He is a self-described “manufacturing refugee from Wall Street” and will be getting married next month. |
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