Tooling
NPE Newsfinder: Control and Monitoring
Visitors to NPE can get a taste of how the Internet will serve as a gateway connecting processors to their process or linking customers to their orders.
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The New Dimension in Mold Simulation
Keep an eye on the increasing prominence of so-called 鈥3D鈥 mold analysis. Two vendors of simulation software from Europe and Asia think it鈥檚 the best solution for a big proportion of injection molded parts. Established U.S. suppliers aren鈥檛 so sure. In any case, the capabilities of both 3D and standard 2.5D simulation are expanding rapidly.
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What to Do When the Mold Just Won't Fill Right
What should have been a routine injection molding job was plagued with problems right from the start.
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Injection Molding Troubleshooter: Get the Most from Flow Simulation
Flow-simulation software is one of the most powerful tools ever developed for improving injection molded part quality.
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NPE 2003 News Wrap-Up: Hot-Runner Temperature Controls
Sophisticated hot-runner temperature controls introduced at the NPE show in Chicago store set-up data right on the mold, detect (and even fix) thermocouple wiring mistakes, and employ easier-to-use icon-based displays.
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NPE 2003 News Wrap-Up: Hot Runners
From complete hot halves to individual nozzles, a host of new products promise smaller gate vestiges, less maintenance, better temperature control, and lower cost.
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Computer Flow Analysis Helps Develop New Profile Dies Faster
Computational fluid dy namics (CFD), or flow analysis, is routinely applied to dies for cast or blown film.
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New Molding & Tooling Technologies In the Pipeline at Germany's IKV
Software that helps you select the right rapid-tooling method for your application, fresh approaches to multi-component injection molding, and new techniques for LSR foaming and micro-molding are some of the top projects being investigated at the Institute fur Kunststoffverarbeitung (Institute for Plastics Processing) or IKV in Aachen, Germany.
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Tandem Tools: New Twist on Stack Molds for Larger Parts
Two new tooling concepts adapt the idea of stack molds to producing larger parts that can be of dissimilar shape, size, color, or material.
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