PT ZONE: Mold Maintenance
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 More (+)
Mold Maintenance Training Eases Molder's Growing PainsAutomation 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. More (+)
MOST RECENT CONTENT: Mold Maintenance
The Tools of Tool Maintenance
6/27/2011Plastics Technology
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, or scrapped out.
Create a Maintenance Work (Bench) Cell3/1/2011Plastics Technology
Get better results by improving the organization of your mold-maintenance operation.
Tooling: Setting Up Shop: Part III1/4/2011Plastics Technology
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.
Confessions of a Mold Manual Junkie7/1/2010Plastics Technology
OK, I admit it, I’m a manual junkie.
Determining Maximum Mold Cycle Counts6/1/2010Plastics Technology
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 best to determine maximum cycle counts, I was hit with this: “So, how many cycles do you think our molds can safely run before we need to clean them?”Leaving my crystal ball at home and unable to get my x-ray vision working, there was no way to answer that question with any accuracy.
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OVERVIEW:
Mold Maintenance
To keep a mold running it needs to be properly maintained and repaired. Essential processes include mold tryout, welding, cleaning and retrofitting.
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Product Announcements
- TOOLING: Mold-Maintenance Chemicals Free of Chlorinated Solvents
- Slide Products Inc. 2/1/2012
- Ruse Preventive Won't Mark Molded Parts
- Slide Products Inc. 4/1/2010
- Store All Your Mold Data Right on the Mold
- RedE Innovations 2/1/2010
- Mold Maintenance Training Center Opens in Ohio
- ToolingDocs 8/1/2009
- New Dry-Ice Blaster Cleans Molds Faster, Easier and at Lower Cost
- Cold Jet, LLC 5/1/2008
