Process Capability and the ‘Hesitation Effect’
Understanding the concepts of pack and hold and applying them during process development is critical for molders to achieve consistent part quality.
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Part 1: Heat Deflection Temperature vs. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
Does the industry need a better way of reporting the temperature-dependent behavior of plastics? With DMA, it already has one. But it’s been glacially slow to catch on.
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PART 2 OF 2: Tricks of the Trade on RTOs, RSOs
They have a lot more to offer molders than just shutting off a cavity. Let’s take a closer look.
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Unraveling the Complexity of Single-Screw Scale-Up
Variables such as shear rates, melting rate, residence time and conductive heating are all influenced in the scale-up.
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PART 2: The Importance of Consistent Fill Time
To make identical parts, you need to keep fill time constant. In part one we covered the why. Here’s the how.
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Best of…Best Practices in Injection Molding
Fifty expert speakers at Plastics Technology’s annual Molding Conference will offer their insights to help you optimize your process.
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Meet the Author, Live the Article at Molding 2019
Attendees of Molding 2019 have the chance to sit in on presentations by some of Plastics Technology’s leading injection molding columnists and then pick their collective brain as a group during a special panel discussion.
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Worldwide Switch to New Gauging System Pays Off for Haartz
Leading supplier of sheet and roll stock for automotive applications reevaluated its thickness-measurement technology in 2012, and now has 15 scanners in place worldwide from one supplier.
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Part 1: The Importance of Consistent Fill Time
To make identical parts, you need to keep fill time constant. Here’s why.
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Telltale Signs of Screw Wear
Determining the cause of wear is the first step in eliminating it.
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Tricks of the Trade on RTOs and RSOs
The more you know about these runner diverters and shutoffs, the more you’ll use them. Here’s how to put them to work in your mold..
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Part 11: A Processor's Most Important Job
It’s the processors job to ensure molded parts contain enough stabilizer to perform to the expectations of the end use.
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Good, Better, Best (Practices): Molding 2019 Agenda Finalized
Approaching its third decade as the go-to gathering for injection molders, Molding 2019 (March 19-21; Indianapolis) will offer attendees best practices on the key elements of the process.
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A Gel By Any Other Name...
Gels…unmelt…contaminants…inclusions…whatever you call them, you want to avoid them. Proper maintenance and good housekeeping—lids on boxes, closed hopper doors, core-free reclaim systems—go a long way towards defect-free product.
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Road Trip: Bulk-Handling Systems on Wheels
Coperion, Coperion K-Tron launch Traveling Equipment Display to showcase
solutions for handling bulk-solid materials.
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Why Ejector Pins Break and How to Prevent It: Part 4
In this installment the focus is on bearing length, clearances, keying, and machining.
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Tooling: Why Ejector Pins Break and How to Prevent It, Part 3
Here we focus on forces, friction, surface finish, and lubrication.
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Extrusion: Head Pressure and Output Stability
Use drag- and pressure-flow equations to analyze fluctuating output.
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Injection Molding: Sliding vs. Locking Ring—Which Non-Return Valve Is Right for You?
The locking-ring style appears to dominate the market, as most believe it makes a make a better seal and leaks less. But is this really so?
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A Processor's Most Important Job, Part 9: Avoid Molded-In Stress
How to establish molding conditions that minimize internal stress in a part.
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