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Injection molding industry salary survey-industry news <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By and large molding professionals are very satisfied with their jobs, and pay is up about 4 per cent in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second salary survey IMM has conducted, making it an annual event. In September and October, we sent out 1300 surveys and received 507 usable responses, for a response rate of 39 per cent. The results presented here are based on the 440 responses received from those who indicated they work full time at a molding facility, for a design firm, for a mold designer, or for a moldmaker<\/strong>. The margin of error for percentages is 4.6 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year we reported that the mean salary\nin the injection molding industry was $70,600. The 2002 mean salary grew 4\npercent to $73,600. Based on this data, a typical respondent is a 45-year-old\nmale college graduate who\u2019s been in the industry 18 years and with his current employer at\nleast 10 years. If he got a raise in 2002 it was 5.9 percent, and he has a\n401(k) retirement plan. His employer is a custom or captive molder, has 155\nemployees, and reported sales last year of $20 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help put these numbers in perspective,\nIMM\u2019s Clare Goldsberry spoke with three members of the molding community<\/strong> is a president, a project\nengineer, and a QA manager\nis for their views on job satisfaction, compensation,\nand important trends for the coming year.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ron Kirscht, President, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ron Kirscht joined Donnelly in August 1991 as VP of operations and was named president of the custom mold maker<\/a><\/strong> in June 2000. Prior to joining Donnelly, Kirscht was corporate controller at Plastech Corp. (Forest Lake, MN). He also worked in inventory and cost accounting management at Sandoz Nutrition (now Novartis) and the Auditing Services Group at the Minneapolis office of Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like about your job? I like\nfacing the marketplace\u2019s challenges and the team I face them with, including our customers.\nAccounting and finance, my areas of focus early in my career, didn\u2019t\nallow me to solve business problems on a macro level. Now I get to work with a\ncapable and committed group of people, which gives me tremendous satisfaction\nthat transcends pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What don\u2019t you like\nabout your job? The role of president can be isolating. Also, members of the\nmanagement team do not always agree on policy and strategy, and with good\nreason: The right answer isn\u2019t always obvious and may become a matter of dispute. The occasional\nconflict surrounding a tough call is vital and healthy for a company despite\nthe pressures put on its president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think you earn your salary? Yes. I\nwasn\u2019t raised to seek or accept unjust enrichment. What I do seek is true\ncompensation. True compensation is pride and belief in our company, our\nleadership, the customers we serve, and the products and services we render. I\nam very grateful for the people I am associated with, within Donnelly, our\nsupplier base, and our customers. Under my leadership, Donnelly has grown\nconsiderably. I have had the privilege of building on a foundation put in place\nby Stan Donnelly, our founder. Stan had a vision for a very people-centric\ncompany. Since its beginnings, Donnelly has focused on building solid\nrelationships with customers, suppliers, and employees. One of my primary\nresponsibilities is to continue to provide a structure for the business that\nenables us to set the standards for how short-run is done. This means\nempowering people across the enterprise to make decisions and building a\ncompany with the agility and flexibility to respond to and anticipate\nmarketplace changes. This has produced tremendous value for Donnelly and our\ncustomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What trends do you foresee in the next year\nthat could affect your job? In 2003, I suspect our industry will be pulling out\nof the economic slumber manufacturers have been enduring. This means\ntransitioning resources from building the foundation for the next wave of\ngrowth, to effectively managing that growth. The landscape of our industry will\nbe different from what it was during the economic boom of the late 1990s. The\nemergence of overseas production of tools and products will be more palpable,\nand the next generation of successful, domestic molders will be more efficient\nand poised for growth than during the last boom. I think this will be an\nexciting period for the best planners, thinkers, and performers. Our ability to\nsuccessfully manage our growth, continuously improve, and increase customer\nsatisfaction will provide another profound opportunity to elevate who we are\nand where we are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Torris, Director of Project Engineering, one of Plastic molding company<\/strong>. of Alltrista, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Torris oversees a staff that comprises\nprogram managers, design engineers, and advanced quality engineers. As a group,\nthey are responsible for all new business development. We do black box design,\npart redesign, automation layouts, and tooling for all of Unimark\u2019s\nmanufacturing facilities, explains Torris. We manage the projects through\ndesign, quote, build, and integration into manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like about your job? Making\ninnovative products. Unimark develops cutting-edge product designs for its\ncustomers, so we partner with the leading technology companies in the world. It\u2019s\ngreat to sit around the table and design parts, processes, and assemblies that\nhave never been manufactured. Unimark pushes the technology and\ncompanies farther than anyone expects them to go. In the end, it\u2019s\nvery rewarding to have in your hand a part no one was sure you could make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What don\u2019t you like\nabout your job? Trying to anticipate what could go wrong in product\ndevelopment. Unimark\u2019s strength is its ability to integrate technology, but it takes\nglobal vendor management to pull it all together. It is difficult to anticipate\nand work around everything that can go wrong, and quite challenging as lead\ntime to market and product development budgets shrink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think you earn your salary?\nEngineering earns its salary. Look at what\u2019s being\nmanufactured today that was deemed impossible by industry experts just five\nyears ago. Unimark is molding parts with tolerances of o.0005 inch\nin half the cycle time used five years ago. We manufacture parts that are less\nexpensive today than they were 10 years ago, and they work better. We are\nmaking medical devices with half the weight, using half the number of\ncomponents, and with greater usability than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What trends do you foresee in the next year\nthat could affect your job? The biggest trends coming in the next year revolve\naround software. The ability to analyze parts, processes, and assemblies is\nquite incredible. Mold flow analysis and FEA software are becoming more\naccurate and more affordable. Unimark develops parts in 3-D, performs tests in\nFEA, and does a complete mold flow analysis before a part is ever made. We then\ndownload the results to our CIM system, which performs DOE for the molding\ncycle, establishes the process setpoints, and monitors the manufacturing\nprocess on the shop floor. This allows for shorter time to market, fewer design\nchanges, better production control monitoring, and ultimately lower costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jude Sheets, QA Manager, one ofr Plastic mold Technologies<\/strong>, Reno, NV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jude Sheets spent the first half of his career\nin radio a far cry from plastics manufacturing. Why quality? Nobody wanted\nthis job, and I didn\u2019t have manufacturing skills, but I wanted the challenges and the\nstability that manufacturing offers, says Sheets, so I went into quality where\nI thought I could best fit into the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like about your job? I enjoy\nbeing able to work with the people at Triad, seeing them grow as we move the\ncompany forward. I have certain gifts that allow me to think in a logical,\nstructured fashion and address problems that arise. I don\u2019t\nhave any formal education in quality management, but I found that just\nlistening and talking to people and reading all the information out there on\nquality procedures enabled me to create Triad\u2019s quality\nprogram. I wrote our 400-plus-page quality manual, and we upgraded to ISO\n9001:2000 certification in October. Also, I like being able to do a lot of\ndifferent things. Although my title is QA manager, I\u2019m involved\nin all aspects of our manufacturing business, which gives me the opportunity to\nsolve a variety of problems each day. I wouldn\u2019t be happy\ntied to a title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What don\u2019t you like\nabout your job? I dislike ineffective pragmatics accepting\nsomething just because it\u2019s there or doing something just because we\u2019ve always\ndone it, without knowing what it really means or why we do it. The challenge is\nexamining those things and changing them to make sense for Triad. If they don\u2019t\ndo anything to benefit us or the customer, why do we do them? Also, I\u2019m\nalways looking for ways to get rid of redundancy. That\u2019s more of a\npet peeve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think you earn your salary? I\nbelieve that I do. I, like most people here, am a part of everything that goes\non at Triad. We\u2019re all on the same team, with the same goal, and can play an\nintegral role each others departments. I need to be involved in several areas\nof the manufacturing process to achieve the goals of Triad, which include being\na supplier of excellence in all aspects of business and in the products we\nmanufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What trends do you foresee in the next year that could affect your job? The biggest challenge will be competing on a global scale with quality that is fairly equal across the board. Quality parts are coming out of Asia at half the price, so why buy from Triad? That\u2019s the question I constantly have to ask. The answer is that Triad provides value-added services and products in an environment that is conducive to our customers success. We provide the customer service, accessibility, and accountability that an outstanding supplier should be able to provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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