Exploring the: Molds & Tooling Zone
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- New Way to Characterize Moldability Of Resins & Part/Tool Designs
- Experienced injection molders have long known that a resin’s melt flow index (MFI), measured under very low-shear conditions, provides very little information about how it will process under many orders of magnitude higher shear in an actual m...
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- Mold-Masters Gains Exclusive Use Of Ritemp Technology for Hot Runners
- Hot-runner supplier Mold-Masters Ltd., Georgetown, Ont., has obtained rights to exclusive global use of Ritemp evaporative cooling technology for hot-runner molds.
Article Published: 3/27/2012
- Tooling at NPE: A Hot-Runner Bonanza in Orlando
- Most of the emphasis is on valve gating and on doing more in less space. Other highlights include standardized mold components, some impressive feats of moldmaking creativity, and advances in mold simulation.
Article Published: 2/24/2012
- Elmet Opens North American HQ
- Produces LSR injection molds and dosing systems.
Article Published: 2/23/2012
- Getting Into LSR--Part IV: How LSR Tooling Is Different
- Building molds for rubber molding, and specifically liquid silicone (LSR ) injection, can be very challenging.
Article Published: 12/28/2011
- ‘Lean’ Versus Quality Management: They Don’t Have to Conflict
- A 'Lean Compliance' system allows an organization to focus its lean initiatives in a way that also improves its quality management system.
Article Published: 11/28/2011
- 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
- Production Aluminum Tooling: What's Holding You Back?
- It might be time to pursue aluminum molds in applications where traditional P20 steel has been specified without giving serious thought to any alternative.
Article Published: 11/22/2011
- Benchmarking Simulation Software: How One Molder Did It
- Injection mold simulation has become a standard tool for molders and mold designers.
Article Published: 10/25/2011
- Do Flow Simulation 'in the Cloud'
- Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.
Article Published: 10/25/2011
