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Industry News
The AMT Honors Mazak’s
Brian Papke for Lifetime
of Industry Dedication
Recognized for his lifetime of dedication to the advancement of the manu-
facturing
indus-
try, Brian
Papke, for-
mer chair-
man and
now execu-
tive advisor
to the Board
of Mazak Corporation, received the prestigious Al Moore Award from The Association of Manufacturing Technology (AMT) during the recent MFG Meeting and MTForecast in
Denver. Throughout his career, Papke has promoted, supported and expanded applications of machine tools and manufacturing technology in ways that have proven instrumental to the suc- cess of North American manufacturers.
Papke’s long, distinguished career in the machine tool industry began after his graduation from the University of Illinois. He entered the machine tool industry in a management training program, and then progressed through various sales and management posi- tions, eventually becoming president of Mazak. In 2016, after 29 years of service with Mazak, he was named chairman.
While at Mazak, Papke sustained a pattern of continuous growth and improvement for the company through the establishment of three core busi-
ness strategies. Those strategies in- cluded a lean production-on-demand approach to manufacturing, implemen- tation of the industry’s first digitally connected Mazak iSMART FactoryTM, an all-encompassing customer support program and a unique network of eight Technology Centers and five Techni- cal Centers across North America, anchored by a National Technology Center in Florence, Kentucky.
Harry Moser Inducted to Association for Manufac- turing Excellence Hall of
Fame
The Association for Manufac- turing Excellence (AME) inducted Harry Moser, president of the Reshor-
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