There are four necessary ingredients in any successful in-plant injection molding training program. If you put those four ingredients in place, we'll guarantee you get results. The Content Must Be Useful to the Personnel The entire injection molding training challenge…
In the first blog post discussing the injection molding training challenge that Paulson Training undertook with 2 separate injection molding plants... ...we outlined the scope of the study, the goals of the study and the methodology we used. We also…
Think Employee Training is Difficult, Time Consuming with No Measurable ROI? Think Again A Tale of Two Injection Molding Companies One of most common questions we get here at Paulson Training is... “How can I measure the ROI from your…
Each year the accounting and management consulting firm of Plante Moran releases a study titled "North American Plastics Industry Study". The 2013 edition of this study was released recently and highlights where the plastics industry is, past trends and projected…
From time to time, we highlight one of the more popular courses in our plastics training library. In this article, we'll take a closer look at our Practical Injection Molding Expert Series. This course brings the molder inside the injection…
For plastics processors like injection molders, extrusion companies, blow molders, etc., profit margins can be thin. In the injection molding industry for example, margins of 6-7% are pretty typical. Of course some plastics manufacturers have profits higher than average, some…
Let's take a quick look at the injection molding machine cycle from the machine operator's point of view. Specific duties vary from plant to plant, but these general tasks will apply to most injection molding plants. Operators work with injection…
For Immediate Release – November 13, 2013 Contact: Craig Paulson, President, Paulson Training Programs Tel: +1-800-826-1901 E-Mail: cpaulson@paulsontraining.com Paulson Training Programs Announces Paulson Plastics Academy 2014 Seminar Schedule Chester, CT (November 13, 2013) . . . Paulson Training Programs…
Sometimes we get so caught up in the latest injection molding techniques and technology that we can forget about some of the very basic job functions that most injection molding plants have to deal with daily. These functions are critical…
"When business is a little slow" and "When we're busy hiring" are two of the most common answers we hear to the question "What is the right time to train?". The problem with both of these answers is that the…