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- Tooling: Setting Up Shop: Part III
- Our last column covered shop size and bench requirements for a 50 x 50 ft mold-repair shop that will have a MPP (Mold Pull Pace) of approximately 25 to 30 multi-cavity molds a week and employ four repair technicians in a six-bench layout.
Columns Published: 1/4/2011
- Tooling: Setting Up Shop—Part II of III
- Many repair shops in molding facilities are too small, poorly lit, and inefficiently designed.
Columns Published: 1/3/2011
- Tooling: Setting Up a Mold Shop: Part I
- I had a toolmaker once tell me he used to slam his hand in his car door before work every morning just to get him in the right frame of mind to work in his shop.
Columns Published: 9/1/2010
- Tooling: The Science of Profile Die Balancing
- In our last column, we discussed the five things profile extruders need to know about profile die design—proper land length, land-length ratio, drawdown, considerations for sensitive materials, and decompression.
Columns Published: 8/1/2010
- Confessions of a Mold Manual Junkie
- OK, I admit it, I’m a manual junkie.
Columns Published: 7/1/2010
- Determining Maximum Mold Cycle Counts
- The first production meeting with my new employer went something like this: “We want you to establish a preventive maintenance program that is based on cycle counts for all our molds.” Before I could launch into an explanation of how bes...
Columns Published: 6/1/2010
- When Assembling Molds, Patience is THE Virtue
- Installing and fitting close-tolerance tooling requires patience, a steady hand, attention to detail, and the ability to “read” resistance.
Columns Published: 4/1/2010
- Communication Is Key in Designing Blown Film Dies
- Over the years I have bought, designed, or helped design quite a number of blown film dies.
Columns Published: 3/1/2010
- You Think You Know Your Molds? Try These 10 Questions to Find Out for Sure
- A mold repair technician’s job has always been to make molds run—anyhow, any way.
Columns Published: 2/1/2010
- Tooling Know-How: Five Tips on Profile Die Design
- A poorly designed profile die—one that does not permit the part to be extruded with the same dimensions from run to run—coupled with a lack of understanding of the extrusion process, is a recipe for scrap generation.
Columns Published: 1/1/2010
