Exploring the: Mold Maintenance Zone
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- More Effective Mold Maintenance: It’s All About the Data
- When tooling issues are shutting down presses daily and you can’t muster the mold maintenance and operating records to figure out why, then like the song says, “Who ya gonna call?” The answer to that question proved crucial to Cosm...
Article Published: 12/28/2012
- TOOLING AT NPE: Hot Runners & Coinjection Grab Spotlight
- Tooling innovations at NPE focused primarily on multi-cavity closure and medical applications, though there was also a substantial emphasis on large automotive and appliance parts.
Article Published: 6/25/2012
- Don’t Just Be a ‘Replacer’
- To be a skilled troubleshooter is about understanding how your molds function, paying attention to the details, establishing a consistent troubleshooting method, and using historical data to guide your tooling replacement decisions
Article Published: 11/28/2011
- Mold Maintenance Training Eases Molder's Growing Pains
- Automation Plastics in Aurora, Ohio (automationplastics.com), is a 32-year-old custom injection molder with 50,500 ft² and 30 presses from 35 to 700 tons.
Article Published: 9/28/2011
- Enhanced Software for Mold Maintenance
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: New versions of two software programs for managing mold maintenance were introduced at the recent NPE show in Chicago by Progressive Components, Wauconda, Ill.
Article Published: 8/26/2009
- The Eight Stages of Mold Repair
- 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.
Article Published: 4/1/2009
- How to Determine Maximum Mold Cycle Counts
- 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 ...
Article Published: 3/1/2009
- Why Not Just Let ’r Leak?
- Here’s how a typical West Coast molding facility with 20 injection presses investigated the downtime impact of water leaks in the plant.
Article Published: 2/1/2009
- What Toolroom Maintenance Supervisors Need to Know-Part II
- September’s “Mold Shop” column presented an overview of a mold maintenance supervisor’s need-to-know priorities.
Article Published: 11/1/2008
- Vacuum Venting Keeps Molds Running Longer
- In tough economic times, facing hungry competition here and abroad, molders cannot afford to ignore preventable problems that slow cycles, cost machine downtime and mold maintenance, and waste material on reject parts.
Article Published: 11/1/2008
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