While the mold was still being disassembled, two “cleaners” began pulling tooling out of plates and putting them into buckets in preparation for a good scrubbing—and I mean a scrubbing. ArticlePublished: 4/1/2009
At my first production meeting with my new employer, I was told, “We want you to establish a preventive maintenance program that is based on maximum cycle counts for all our molds.” Then, before I could launch into an explanation of how ... ArticlePublished: 3/1/2009
Here’s how a typical West Coast molding facility with 20 injection presses investigated the downtime impact of water leaks in the plant. ArticlePublished: 2/1/2009