Roger Spielman’s Thoughts On EuroMold 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007 by Dean RotbartRoger Spielman is something of a folk hero in the rapid-fabrication industry. Spielman spent more than 20 years at the Rocketdyne Division of The Boeing Co., where he came to oversee its rapid prototype operations. Among his many noteworthy accomplishment, Spielman and his team used SLS to create hundreds of parts for the International Space Station Program and the
Twice since 2000, Spielman has been a keynote speaker at EuroMoldb><, the annual trade fair for moldmaking and tooling, design and application development. This year’s fair will be held in Frankfurt, Germany from December 5, 2007 to December 8, 2007.
Ahead of EuroMold, Dean Rotbart, director of the Low-Volume Manufacturers Association, conducted a telephone interview with Spielman, asking him what he would tell EuroMold if he were a speaker this year.
What follows is an edited transcript of that interview. It is reprinted with permission of the Low-Volume Manufacturers Association, www.l-vma.org.