Check Mate: Mate Precision Tooling uses peer-to-peer training, Kaizen, and Baldrige in a group effort for success

摘要

Involvement in non-profit industry organizations has been diminishing over the past several decades, and the most recent economic conditions can't have helped the membership numbers. These environments of peer-to-peer sharing have been usurped by the current trend of fervent protection of proprietary processes and technology-the closed door approach to competition. It was interesting, then to see a recent announcement highlighting Mate Precision Tooling's accolades from the Minnesota Manufacturer's Alliance as the 2009 Manufacturer of the Year.