Weekend roundup: 3DP or stock parts? Duke professor has a model for that

It’s been a busy September and the month isn’t over yet. Congratulations are in order for new hires, promotions in the manufacturing industry. Mark Wright will now lead Methods Machine Tools as the newly appointed president and CEO. Sandvik Coromant welcomes Annika Langéen to the position of VP of Marketing for the Americas. Maja Foster will take the role of Global Marketing Director for Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s Production Software business.

In case you could attend EMO Hannover 2019, GIE Media’s Manufacturing Group had feet on the ground throughout the show. Here’s a quick recap from Robert Schoenberger.

Keep reading, there are more details about the news mentioned and I’ve included a video and about Jeannette Song, an operations professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and the mathematical model she created to help firms balance the costs of storing spare parts and the need to have them instantly available.

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Methods Machine Tools Inc., appointed Mark Wright as its president and CEO. Wright will assume all operating functions of Methods Machine Tools Inc. including the Sudbury, Massachusetts headquarters and all seven direct offices throughout the United States as well as its National distribution network.

Wright’s career spans nearly every level of operating responsibilities in a wide variety of industries including software, hardware, machinery, and services. He has led operations, sales, and financial teams. He has worked in Asia and the Far East and has a very global outlook in strategic planning, growth initiatives, and sales channel programs and development. Wright has significant experience in team building and process improvement. His key strengths include collaborating across functional lines, communicating with global executives, working in various other cultures, and contract negotiations.

Sean Holt, head of Sales Area Americas for Sandvik Coromant, welcomes Annika Langéen to the VP of Marketing role for the Americas. Langéen is responsible for the strategic direction of global marketing and brand positioning for the sales area.

Langéen joined Sandvik Coromant in 2014 as regional sales manager South Sweden and was appointed to VP of sales for Nordic countries in 2016. Experienced in various roles within sales and operations, Langéen is a leader who drives improvements, delivers results and develops people. In her new role, she is accountable for the strategic direction of global marketing and brand positioning. Through her proven track record and dynamic management style, she will continue to elevate the brand and improve the customer experience. Langéen holds master’s degrees in Technology Management and Science, Chemical Engineering & Technology from Lund University in Sweden.

Langéen’s home base is at the Schaumburg, Illinois, office, the location of the Sandvik Coromant Center.

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Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence has appointed Maja Foster as global marketing director of its Production Software business. Joining the company after seven years at machine tool manufacturer Mazak, including the last three as European marketing manager, Foster brings a wealth of metalworking industry experience to her new role, in which she will be setting marketing strategies for all product lines under the Production Software umbrella.

In addition to the marketing responsibilities, Foster will also lead product management, a specialist team whose tasks include gathering market intelligence, performing market analysis and defining future product content and direction.

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In order to offer more flexibility to customers, Big Kaiser has moved production of its CAT50 milling adapters to the U.S. The product performance and design will not change, but the move allows for more variation and faster delivery of special lengths for specific applications.

“The market has spoken,” Alan Miller, engineering and product manager, says. “As awareness of Smart Damper has spread, more and more customers have asked for specials for their unique projects. This allows us to do more of that without the delay of coordinating with our partners overseas and additional shipping time.”

With both a patented counterweight and friction damper, the Smart Damper is a dynamic damping system that eliminates vibration for higher productivity. It provides quiet, vibration-free milling with long projection tools, ultimately making it easier to achieve fine surface finishes and higher metal removal rates.

Smart Damper adapters are also available for turning and boring applications.

Jeannette Song, an operations professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, has created a mathematical model to help firms balance the costs of storing spare parts and the need to have them instantly available.

A paper describing the model, Stock or Print? Impact of 3D Printing on Spare Parts Industry, has been published in the journal Management Science. Song worked with Yue Zhang, who conducted the research while earning her Ph.D. at The Fuqua School of Business and is now an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University.