Exploring the: Injection Molding Zone
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- Get the Most From Your Tooling
- The history and culture of the molding industry has been to pull out every trick possible to work around design, resin, tooling, processing, and testing issues once the mold arrives. It is time to rewrite history.
Columns Published: 9/29/2012
- Establish a True ‘24/7’ Production Process
- New or existing mold trials need to produce a production-worthy process that will run 24/7.
Columns Published: 8/27/2012
- Nozzle Leaks: Why They Occur, How to Detect & Fix Them
- Nozzle leaks are a serious problem in injection molding. Here are some causes and remedies.
Columns Published: 7/30/2012
- Should You Profile Injection Velocity?
- If you can get by with one velocity, use only one, because fill time is easier to reproduce, and it is easier to set up the process.
Columns Published: 6/26/2012
- Understanding Polymer Flow: Interpreting the Viscosity Curve
- Take the time to do the viscosity curve on new molds. You will learn more in that hour than many learn in years about the process for this tool.
Columns Published: 5/29/2012
- All About ‘Cushion’
- What it means. Why it's important.
Columns Published: 4/26/2012
- Getting Good Data from DOE
- How do you know what process variables control a part’s dimensions or other properties? A properly conducted DOE is the answer—but incorrect procedure will yield useless data.
Columns Published: 3/26/2012
- Improve Profits by Graphing Injection Pressure
- Graphing is a powerful aid in optimizing the process and troubleshooting both process and machine issues.
Columns Published: 2/21/2012
- Working with Color Concentrates
- Perhaps the greatest difficulty involving the use of color concentrates is specifying them appropriately for the material to which they are being added.
Columns Published: 2/21/2012
- What to Calibrate on Your Press
- There are different approaches to meeting the goal of making parts identically. At the heart of all them is the process or the machine setup sheet. My bet would be you cannot find two that are identical.
Columns Published: 1/28/2012
