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Our Eifel Success ERP System allows for more accurate price quoting and enhanced efficiency.

Eifel Success: Proprietary Access-Based ERP System Enhances Efficiency

While others use standard ERP systems, Eifel goes beyond the basics with a proprietary, customized system that provides us with a comprehensive resource for customers’ projects. Eifel uses a custom ERP system built in Microsoft Access that started out as a simple quoting system but has evolved into much more over the past 20 years. […]

There are many features and specifications that must be considered when quoting and building a production mold. The mold shop and its customer must consider all the requirements needed to process and mold a plastic part.

Successful Tool Program: The Key is in the Process

Eifel Mold and Engineering is founded on three key principles:  People, Process, and Technology. “People” is a core principle because our people develop, improve, and commit to the Process and while using Technology to stay competitive in the marketplace with world-class quality. So, which of these is the key principle for manufacturing a robust quality […]

Local molding industries are critical during a crisis, such as this coronavirus pandemic. In this image, an unseen medical professional places a ventilator over the face of a patient.

Why Local Molding Companies are Critical During a Crisis

The manufacturing industry has always been critical to Michigan’s economy, and the coronavirus pandemic has only reinforced the importance of keeping these local businesses thriving. Manufacturers can develop tools and safety equipment that those on the front lines need to assist patients and the community as a whole. The ingenuity behind these companies cannot be […]

The company culture makes employees stay with Eifel Mold & Engineering in Fraser, Michigan. CNC Machinists Ed Sharon and Gary Schulz, shown here, were among those recently gifted with watches for their 20th anniversaries with Eifel.

Enjoying the Eifel Life: Employees Stay for the Long Run

Since its beginnings, Eifel Mold & Engineering has strived to maintain a positive, friendly, and family-like environment. It’s one of the reasons why so many employees have worked here for decades and have no plans to go anywhere. “The People” is one of the three pillars of Eifel’s foundation, as we strongly believe that having […]

Ranger XP steering wheel

Eifel, Hicks Plastics Program Enhances Polaris Ranger XP Steering Wheel

It’s only natural that two well-established local businesses in the plastics industry would come to rely on each other’s expertise. With a mutual goal of providing their respective clients with exceptional products and service, Hicks Plastics and Eifel Mold and Engineering were the perfect team for the Ranger XP steering wheel program. When Hicks Plastics […]

Panel: Local activism is important in finding workers

During the American Mold Builders Conference, President Eifel Mold and Engineering spoke about the importance of getting involved with students and to find the next generation of employees: Another panel member, Rick Hecker, president of Eifel Mold & Engineering, said he started a job-shadowing program with the local Lincoln High School. “We had tried the […]

Lincoln High School unveils enhanced CAD/CAM program

County officials, district personal, former students and business leaders gathered at the Lincoln High School Center for Career and Technology to celebrate the installation of new machinery which will prepare students to enter the workforce with in-demand skills. A DMG MORI 5-axis CNC machine, valued at $250,000, was provided to Van Dyke Public Schools on a […]

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