Accumold Starts With the Why

Grace Swanson, vice president of human capital at Accumold, a leading micro-molding plastics injection company located just outside Des Moines, Iowa, knows the field of standards well.
Grace Swanson, vice president of human capital at Accumold, a leading micro-molding plastics injection company located just outside Des Moines, Iowa, knows the field of standards well.
In our April 13, 2018, episode of QDL, we talked about anti-hacker robots, data privacy, and new product introduction.
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Your company leadership team just issued a corporate goal (aka mandate) of reducing defects to fewer than five per million units made.
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