When taking on a tooling project, no detail can be overlooked. With the numerous variables that can impact production, you should expect some hiccups. That is why mold flow analysis is such a crucial component of production. Let’s dive into this idea and see how to manage the risks associated with designing a new mold. [...]
Molds in production often have various core pull side-actions, while designed with the best of intentions, do not fulfill current needs. Different materials, new molding parameters, requirements to drive glass below the surface or simply under-designing for the application, are just a few of the many reasons why mold performance suffers, often resulting in a [...]
As any mold’s integrity is paramount to output quality and success, this is where measurement machines play a critical role. Shops use these machines to verify a mold’s accuracy or the finished product created by the mold. For example, the accuracy demanded by manufacturers of medical equipment and tools, such as gears, syringes, tubing and [...]
Injection molding is a prevalent manufacturing process utilized across a variety of applications, from full-scale productions of consumer products to smaller volume production of large components like car body panels. The process involves a tool or mold, typically constructed from hardened steel or aluminum. The mold is precision machined to form the features of the [...]
If you’ve had plastic parts manufactured in the past using traditional methods, you probably remember the process. You wouldn’t exactly call it hit-and-miss. The shop you worked with was reputable, and their team had the experience to take your part, design a mold, and produce samples for you to measure and test. But despite the [...]
Moldflow analysis can be essential to ensure that a mold is capable of producing the strongest and most consistent parts. Is mold flow a necessary step of the process, or is it just extra time and effort? Here are the top seven reasons why mold designers should always perform a moldflow analysis: Optimization of Design [...]
Mold manufacturing is an increasingly challenging industry. Whether you have pivoted to supplying the medical industry or are a longtime automotive mold/die producer, you have probably seen where the market is heading. Parts and designs are getting more complex. Customers are pushing for shorter production times. Molds require greater degrees of precision and exact surface [...]
A shop that runs higher cavitation molds with critical specifications at high volumes will never continuously improve mold performance or shop efficiencies with non-standard language in a comment field. This data collection method does not provide a means to quickly or accurately measure data because a technician must manually decipher and analyze every work order. [...]
The most challenging part of implementing additive tooling is getting cooling to and from the inserts in a mold. Here is a quick look at when to use conventional circuits or conformal cooling to achieve optimal production results with additive tooling. Conformal Cooling or Conventional Cooling Consistent cooling in a mold is the key to [...]
With plastic injection molding being one of the most commonly-used plastic formation techniques with numerous industrial applications, the market is continually expanding and evolving. Custom made plastic injection molding parts present the perfect solution for numerous industries that are striving to produce a great volume of high-quality and cost-efficient parts. Such plastics are used in [...]