Tooling

Tooling Know-How

The Tools of Tool Maintenance

The root cause of many mold and part issues are ultimately determined by the ability to measure something within one or two tenths of a mil. Readings with precision measuring tools can determine whether a tooling component is to be reused, reworked, or scrapped out.

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Mold Simulation

Mold Filling Simulation: What, When, Why, How

Mold-filling analysis is the right direction to go, but if you want to arrive at your destination—good parts and an efficient process—you’ll need to pay attention to all the details and select an experienced professional to do the analysis.

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What’s New in Mold Simulation

Seamless integration with CAD and FEA structural analysis is a common theme among the major software products.

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best practices

Eight Steps Toward a Seamless Mold Transfer

It’s big news when an OEM decides to move a substantial number of molds from one processing operation (either their own in-house/captive facility or an outsourced molder) to another.

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Hot Runners

New Ownership for Husky

Boston-based private-equity firm Berkshire Partners and OMERS Private Equity of Toronto reportedly paid $2.1 billion last month to jointly buy Husky International Ltd. and its subsidiaries, which makes injection molding machines, hot runners and molds.

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Create a Maintenance Work (Bench) Cell

Get better results by improving the organization of your mold-maintenance operation.

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Molds & Tooling

Taking the Temperature of Mold Productivity

Increasing traffic in transfer tooling from molders that have shuttered operations or are unable to successfully produce parts is driving interest in a long-established but under-utilized diagnostic technique for injection molding.

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Pay Attention to Your Nozzle Body & Tip

These are overlooked components that can cost you thousands.

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Blow Molding

Bonanza of Hot Runners & Controls Introduced at K 2010 Show

At the world’s largest plastics show in Dusseldorf last fall, hot-runner and controller manufacturers introduced a flood of new developments in speed, size, accuracy, and reliability.

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Molds & Tooling

TOOLING: Standard Components and In-Mold Monitor at K 2010

K 2010 news in tooling aims at helping injection moldmakers speed product to market.

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