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I received this question during a seminar last week… MH When you suggest including everyone in the injection molding training initiative, are you suggesting I include my quality technicians? My Response Definitely, the more quality knows about production, the better off you are. They usually don’t need to know all the technical information… but an increase in knowledge will always […]

I was recently forwarded a good article in Industry Week by Jill Jusko entitled: When It Comes to Training, Don’t Hope for the Best Article Excerpt When it comes to training, “what I often see happen is that people will invest in some training and then hope that the results will shine through,” says Ryan Hale, […]

I was asked the following question the other day… Don In our main facility, we follow up our training with group discussions with some success. Unfortunately, in our facility overseas, these discussion groups don’t work at all. Do you have any ideas why this happens? My Response In group settings, there are typically a couple people […]

I received this question today… AJ A co-worker told me voids are actually not filled with air or gas. Is this true? Could you explain what voids really are? My Response Your co-worker is correct. Voids are sections in the center of a part where material shrinks away from itself and leaves what appears like a […]

In a recent webinar, I received a common question… Mark When tracking the improvements of training, what should I monitor? My Response I will answer this is a few parts… 1) Choose from the data that is already available – Do not create new metrics to monitor… if it was important to the management, someone would already […]