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Mold Designer, Mold Maker and Mold Repair Technician of the Year to be Named

The winners of the annual awards, including the new repair prize, will be announced at PTXPO by the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Mold Technologies Division.

How to Detect and Prevent Hot-Runner Manifold Leaks

Minding the temperature gap at startup between the nozzle and manifold; visually and electronically monitoring signs for leaks; and preventive maintenance between runs can save you from hot-runner leak horror stories.

Mold Documentation Tracking System Updated

MoldTrax’s MTWEB now allows visibility in multiple locations and five languages.

How to Prevent Nozzle Tip Leaks, Part 1

Instead of learning from your mistakes, stop making them in the first place.

Time to Turn Up the Heat on Your Hot-Runner Maintenance Program

Molders are running more hot-runner manifolds than ever, a trend that’s expected to continue. But once you have them, you need to keep them in shape. Follow these tips to get going.

Mold Performance: Tap Into the Power of Data Collection

Collecting core data in a transparent way allows molders to drill into the true cost of tooling issues and develop real goals to keep production flowing.

More Effective Mold Maintenance: It’s All About the Data

When tooling issues are shutting down presses daily and you can’t muster the mold maintenance and operating records to figure out why, then like the song says, “Who ya gonna call?” The answer to that question proved crucial to Cosmetic Specialties International (CSI), LLC in Oxnard, Calif.

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.

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.

Tooling Know-How: Troubleshooting Defects--Part II: Hot-Runner Long Gate Vestiges

Last month, we discussed the general issues of an organized and disciplined process of troubleshooting and correcting mold defects.

Troubleshooting Defects: Part I

Like the three other aspects of a typical mold clean/repair job (disassembly, cleaning, and assembly) there is usually more than one way to skin the cat of troubleshooting and correcting defects.

The Eight Stages of Mold Repair

While the mold was still being disassembled, two “cleaners” began pulling tooling out of plates and putting them into buckets in preparation for a good scrubbing—and I mean a scrubbing.

What Toolroom Maintenance Supervisors Need to Know-Part II

September’s “Mold Shop” column presented an overview of a mold maintenance supervisor’s need-to-know priorities.

What Toolroom Maintenance Supervisors Need to Know

Those in charge of keeping molds reliable and production-ready normally start their day in the same manner—wondering what broke down since they last walked out the door—and hoping they have the resources to get it going again.

Why Mold-Maintenance Data Is Essential for Processing Technicians

When I was in the Navy, many different trades such as hydraulics, electrical, airframes, armament, and jet-engine mechanics worked side by side to get planes into the air, through their scheduled missions, returned to base, and turned around to do it all over again.