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Tim Atwood - MSI Mold Builders (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Technology Manager
Employed with MSI for 26 years, he is now technology manager, responsible for implementation of new and existing technology and equipment for three plant locations, in addition to managing the IT and Plant Maintenance departments in the Iowa location. |
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Dave J. Faughnder - Faughnder Engineering (San Diego, CA)
President
Providing engineering services to the plastics manufacturing industry, with more than 27 years experience in the design of plastic products and the design and manufacture of high cavitation, high production plastic injection molds. |
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Mark Hanaway - Tech Tool & Mold, Inc./Tech Molded Plastics L.P. (Meadville, PA)
Director of Marketing and Sales After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Edinboro University, Mark worked in the Pharmaceutical and Finance industries for a number of years in the South-Eastern United States, Mark returned to Meadville in 1998 to join his brothers in running the family business to oversee marketing, sales and business development programs. |
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Kent Hanson - H.S. Die & Engineering, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI)
General Manager
Employed by for the past 21 years: serving as senior in mold repair and tooling program refurbishment; lead moldmaker, assistant foreman/lead moldmaker, program manager in the engineering department, director of engineering and general manager. |
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Stephen D. Harrison - Synergetic M2M Group (Wallaceburg, ON)
Director of Global Business Development He has 30 years experience in the plastics field; a B.S. degree from Michigan Technological University and expertise in sale and program management. |
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Richard Laverty - Chicago Mold Engineering Company, Inc. (St. Charles, IL)
President/General Manager Began his career at Chicago Mold Engineering in 1966 as a first year moldmaking apprentice, learning how to operate all of the various machines and attending the Tool and Die Institute Moldmaking Apprenticeship Program |
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Ralph Neufarth - Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH)
Manager, Global Package and Device Prototyping Group Involved in the moldmaking industry for the past 20 years after migrating from the tool and die discipline in 1987; and his responsibilities include: conceptualizing, designing and fabrication of fully functional prototypes and associated tooling (including injection, thermoform/vacuum form, and extrusion blow molds); product delivery systems, devices, and other related upstream tool technologies; as well as 3-D data capture and reverse engineering. |
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Scott L Peters - HunterDouglas (Owensboro, KY)
Tooling/Process Engineering Manager For more than 30 years Scott Peters has been working in the moldmaking industry wearing many hats, including apprentice, mold designer, sales engineer and engineering manager—in addition to serving on a number of advisory boards, including SPE’s. |
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John Plut - Top Grade Molds (Mississauga, ON Canada)
Marketing and Project Engineering Manager Has a mechanical engineering diploma; is mainly responsible for all global sales and marketing efforts, and overseeing the complete sales engineering team. |
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Alexis N. Sommers, Ph.D. - University of New Haven (New Haven, CT)
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Division of Multidisciplinary Engineering Systems Degrees from Cornell, Rutgers and Purdue. Former President of a custom die casting company, former President of the Connecticut Association of Purchasing Management and a specialist in forensic engineering as it relates to manufacturing. |
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Manivannan (Mani) Subramaniam - Ford Motor Company (Sterling Heights, MI)
Quality Coach/Assessor Works with stamping/moldmaking suppliers across Canada/USA with all major suppliers to improve quality systems, Six Sigma implementation, lean implementation and outsourcing with Ford and suppliers to reduce cost, as well as warranty issues, benchmarking and design for manufacturing to reduce cost for future platforms. |
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Robert Vaughan - Dauntless Molds (Covina, CA)
Account Manager
Involved with Engineering He is a part of a group that is identifying how they can move forward in their approach to provide to their customers costeffective tooling, on-time deliveries and maintaining quality with equipment purchases and tracking/scheduling of work throughout the shop—including tying purchasing into the workflow efficiently. |
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Terry Wohlers - Wohlers Associates, Inc. (Fort Collins, CO)
Principal Consultant & President
Provides consulting advice on wideranging issues associated with rapid product development—much of it dealing with equipment purchases, hidden costs, what works and what does not, industry growth trends and forecasts. |
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Michael A. Zacharias - Extreme Tool and Engineering, Inc. (Wakefield, MI)
Cosmos Tooling Solutions Ltd. (Shenzhen, China)
President/Owner
President/Partner-Owner
Has more than 20 years of injection moldmaking experience, is a U.S. certified journeyman moldmaker; and is currently responsible for sales at both companies as well as vision and strategy development. Additionally, has fiscal/financial responsibility for both facilities and management supervisory responsibilities. |
