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Precision Metal Stamping Manufacturer Trains and Retains Workforce
Die-Tech meets the challenge of a limited workforce by training employees internally, and externally with the assistance of MANTEC.
Die-Tech's CEO Featured on Mantech site
Mantec features Die-Tech in their Success Gallery
Metalforming Magazine Features Our Engineering Hotline
Read more about our hotline in the September issue of Metalforming
Die-Tech in the news
Hotline for Stamping Design Engineers Just a Phone Call Away
Tech Boosts Value of Trained Workers
Terminal Leadframes for the Automotive Industry
A Spotlight on Success
Manufacturing Technology Internship Program

Precision Metal Stamping Manufacturer Trains and Retains Workforce

Read how Die-Tech is preparing for the future and for the skilled workforce crunch that everyone is predicting. This precision metal stamping manufacturer has developed several career enhancement value streams for training employees. This training is provided both internally by Die-Tech personnel, and externally in partnership with MANTEC.

Die-Tech's CEO Featured on Mantech site

Mantec features Die-Tech, the precision metal stamping located in York Haven, PA, as one of their sucessful partnerships.

Metalforming Magazine Features Our Engineering Hotline

Die-Tech's new stamping design hotline hit the September issue of Metalforming. The article explains the type of questions Die-Tech engineers will answer for those tasked with the design and use of precision metal stampings.

Die-Tech in the news

Die-Tech's new hotline is featured in MetalForming Magazine.

Hotline for Stamping Design Engineers Just a Phone Call Away

Die-Tech, Inc., York Haven, PA, has introduced a stamping-design hotline as a resource for engineers and others manufacturing for the automotive, telecommunications, military, aerospace, industrial controls and other industries that use precision metal stampings. Call 1-888-89-STAMP for technical support, it is free and available 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Tech Boosts Value of Trained Workers

When Richard Dennis, president of Die-Tech Inc. in York County, was warned of the "perfect labor storm" that threatens to erode the manufacturing workforce, he knew his company was already acting to ward off the inability to attract and keep skilled employees.

With both apprenticeship and mentoring programs in place for the past few years, Dennis mandates that all of his 52 employees receive regular training to maintain or improve the skills needed to keep his company competitive and productive.

He and other local manufacturers are beefing up their workforce to make it fit in the trend toward lean manufacturing, which demands an increased use of technology.

Terminal Leadframes for the Automotive Industry

Die-Tech announces a new product launch -- the Terminal Leadframe. A Terminal Leadframe is a custom designed, usually plastic over-molded, precision metal stamping that mates with an industry standard connector in automotive 'black-box' applications.

These custom metal stampings are more robust to meet the demands of under-the-hood automotive environments, yet have the precision required for the plastic injection molds used in the over-molding most applications require.

The concepts learned and developed for the Terminal Leadframe enable Die-Tech to fast-track the product to production. This time-to-market advantage is key to our customer's abilty to compete in today's marketplace.

A Spotlight on Success

How does a company transform itself to an innovative, outward-facing organization? For Die-Tech, Inc., the York Haven manufacturer of precision metal stampings, the first step was benchmarking. Rather than settle for the minimum required to maintain its quality and technical certifications, the company took a hard, critical look at the comparisons it was gathering.

"You're first fight is always with data," says company President Richard W. Dennis. "We were guilty of a mindset that what we were finding didn't apply to us because we were different. But benchmarking showed the chinks in our armor."

Next, Die-Tech engaged a consultant that recommended a more robust training and career/personal development menu for the company's more than 100 employees. That process began eight years ago. Today, the spirit of innovation permeates the company culture. Among its key elements:

Significant exporting
Regular customer interface
New product introductions
On- and off-site training

Yet another element in Die-Tech's outreach is Dennis' service on the MANTEC board of directors, where his enthusiasm for learning and growing has impressed John Lloyd.

"I'm continually amazed at how much he reaches out to take on new initiatives -- simultaneously in many cases," Lloyd says. "He's built an infrastructure that enables his people to absorb those changes."

Manufacturing Technology Internship Program

The Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania (TCCP), Ben Franklin Technology Partners, MANTEC, and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announced the winner of an innovative internship program that matches regional manufacturers with the region's most qualified students.

The winners of the Manufacturing Technology Internship Progam are:

Die-Tech, Inc.
Videon Central, Inc.
Johnstown Speciality Castings, Inc.
Verefi Technologies
QorTek, Inc.
Intuitive Control Systems, Inc.

"The program is a great step forward for all of us working together to re-build manufacturing in Pennsylvania," said Tom Palisin, Pennsylvania's Manufacturing Ombudsman, who works within the Department of Community and Economic Development. "By expanding intership opportunities we are building a foundation of knowledgeable, enterprising individuals who will be poised to expand manufacturing in the Commonwealth."