PT ZONE: Molds & Tooling
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 document safety issues. More (+)
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MOST RECENT CONTENT: Molds & Tooling
Why Multi-Cavity Molds Fill Unevenly
12/27/2011Plastics Technology
Balanced filling is critical for making identical parts, achieving high CPKs, holding tight tolerances, and getting “good” data from design of experiments.
‘Lean’ Versus Quality Management: They Don’t Have to Conflict11/28/2011Plastics Technology
A 'Lean Compliance' system allows an organization to focus its lean initiatives in a way that also improves its quality management system.
Don’t Just Be a ‘Replacer’11/28/2011Plastics Technology
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
Production Aluminum Tooling: What's Holding You Back?11/22/2011Plastics Technology
It might be time to pursue aluminum molds in applications where traditional P20 steel has been specified without giving serious thought to any alternative.
Benchmarking Simulation Software: How One Molder Did It10/25/2011Plastics Technology
Injection mold simulation has become a standard tool for molders and mold designers.
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Molds & Tooling
Used in all processes to give the melted plastic its final shape. The terms mold and tool generally refer to parts produced via injection or blow molding. Molds are generally made of tool steel, aluminum, copper and alloys. Mold components consists of components such as mold bases, pins, ejectors, lifters, bushings, guides and alignment devices. From this zone you can link to information on mold maintenance, mold simulation and CAD/CAM.
» Electric Injection Molding
Learn the basics or discover more about electric injection molding.
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Product Announcements
- TOOLING: Mold-Maintenance Chemicals Free of Chlorinated Solvents
- Slide Products Inc. 2/1/2012
- INJECTION MOLDING: Higher Performance Mold Evacuation
- CAE Services Corporation 12/28/2011
- INJECTION MOLDING: Automated Mold Changer Integrated with Press Controls
- ENGEL 11/22/2011
- TOOLING: Roundness/Cylindricity Measurement
- Mitutoyo America Corporation 10/5/2011
- INJECTION MOLDING: Multicomponent Molding Plus Advanced In-Mold Assembly
- KraussMaffei Corp. 9/29/2011
