Exploring the: Mold Maintenance Zone
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- Maintenance Training? Show Me the Money
- Training works best if a goals are set and a plan is established to meet them.
Columns Published: 12/28/2012
- The Cost of Doing Nothing
- Most people usually associate costs with doing something.
Columns Published: 10/26/2012
- Maintenance Terms of Endearment
- Look closely at your company’s mold maintenance language and formalize your approach to create a clear and concise picture—one that can be measured.
Columns Published: 7/30/2012
- The Value of 20 Bits of Data
- With these 20 bits of data, toolrooms can drastically lower the cost of keeping molds running and improve mold reliability and tooling life while reducing breakdowns and molding better parts.
Columns Published: 3/26/2012
- The Tools of Tool Maintenance
- The root cause of many mold and part issues are ultimately determined by the ability to measure something within one or two tenths of a mil. Readings with precision measuring tools can determine whether a tooling component is to be reused, reworked,...
Columns Published: 6/27/2011
- Create a Maintenance Work (Bench) Cell
- Get better results by improving the organization of your mold-maintenance operation.
Columns Published: 3/1/2011
- 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
- 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
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