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 [...]
Partnering with a China sourcing agent who can act as the go-between is the best way to avoid getting scammed or making poor sourcing decisions. Experienced China sourcing agents have the inside knowledge of how the supply chains work in China. They know which sellers are genuine, and can carry out onsite inspection of the [...]
Seven out of the ten busiest ports in the world are located in China. As 80% of global trade occurs through the sea as per the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Chinese ports handle the bulk of the global trade. The initial lockdowns imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic impacted global shipping due [...]
Although often shrouded in overly complicated financial terms, business valuations are generally straightforward. As a baseline, companies are worth the amount of cash they generate each year, times some “multiple” heavily influenced by the attractiveness of the relevant industry. Within each industry, larger companies will trade at higher multiples than will smaller ones. In today's [...]
To sell a service, you have to make sales contacts. It could be at a trade show, a networking event, in someone’s office, or on the phone, but you have to tell people what you do and start the conversation. You knew this. Don’t roll your eyes. Keep reading. When your goal is to sell [...]