Exploring the: Molds & Tooling Zone
|
Sort by: |
- 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
- Safety Sense in the Shop
- Running a clean, organized, professional, and safe shop requires a team effort that includes an awareness of unsafe practices and equipment that need to be eliminated, replaced, or improved, along with the accountability of all to identify and docum...
Columns Published: 1/28/2012
- Why Multi-Cavity Molds Fill Unevenly
- Balanced filling is critical for making identical parts, achieving high CPKs, holding tight tolerances, and getting “good” data from design of experiments.
Columns Published: 12/27/2011
- 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
- Pay Attention to Your Nozzle Body & Tip
- These are overlooked components that can cost you thousands.
Columns Published: 2/23/2011
- 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
- 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
