To ensure the success of your business.In any business there is a level that represents best practice. A level of corporate performance that encompasses all the knowledge and attributes of a particular industry area to ensure that the business operates at a competitive level. […]
If you’re thinking of a career as a professional designer, there are some important things you need to know before making your decision. […]
With the integration of design into the business planning process of many large national and international companies and the identification of design as a major factor in competitive advantage the management of design has become a specialisation in its own right. […]
Industrial designers develop and prepare products for manufacture. They are particularly concerned with those aspects of products that relate to human usage and behaviour, and product appeal. […]
A designer is a business professional who develops solutions to commercial needs that require the balancing of technical, commercial, human and aesthetic requirements.A designer can be said to be both technician and artist. […]
The best solution to the problem of movement causing stress was very simple. If component A is forced against component B thus putting both components under stress, remove the stress. […]
Mold designers and builders try to use the typical methods of minimizing wear—such as using differential metals; using low-wear coatings; specifying high metal hardness thus equating high hardness with low wear; […]
Designing a product for high production tooling involves considerations that must be closely evaluated: gating location, part ejection, wall thickness, material flow characteristics, cycle time, hot runner feasibility and assembly at high rates. […]
The following guidelines should be considered:Resins UsedDepending on the emissions or gas residue given off during the molding process and flash point of the resin, the molder will have to evaluate whether to use 7- or 20-micron pore size. Resins such as ABS, polypropylene, soft type PVC, polyethylene, acrylic, polyurethane, […]
Gas permeable mold steel can be machined by conventional methods using cutoff saws, end mills, grinders, EDM, stoning, etc. It is important to remember that this material is honeycombed with thousands of microscopic holes, which are affected by metal removal. Oil coolant is recommended. […]