Most mold builders are familiar with the 5S workplace organization method for lean manufacturing, which embraces the concepts of sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain. Each aspect focuses on avoiding waste and can easily serve as a basis for continuous improvement within mold shops that use EDM and graphite. […]
Properly increase section dimension of gate and runner; the position of gate is set at thick walls of the plastic parts and should be as symmetric as possible; improve mold exhausting condition; set cold-slug well with sufficient capacity to avoid cold material’s entering into the cavity and influencing filling and shrinkage compensation; […]
Adverse factors of plastic material and injection mold are in the following: […]
In the molding industry, Mould is one of the essential production tools, but how to evaluate a set of mould, The heat exchange efficiency is an important parameter, In part two of our three-part sub-series on mold water cooling systems, we review water quality and its impact on mold performance. […]
The concept of integrated CAD/CAM have been popular for decades in mold industry, but now, it has been changed a lot and reached an entirely new level of value, what happened? […]
Every people who works in manufacturing industry must know manufacturing cycle meaning– Eliminating secondary operation further reduces costs. […]
When our mold designer complete a mold design, what is the next step? Do you have a mold design review process? […]
maybe you have some products at hand, they consist of some plastic parts, I think you might be interested in how to assembly and disassembly, when we put them together, it snaps into a groove or a slot in the mating part, […]
maybe there are some plastic products or products with plastic parts at hand, when looking carefully, you can find some of them have textures or lettering on their inner or external surface. […]
Moldmaking can be a difficult business to accurately forecast. Work comes in when the OEM/brand owner is ready, and the ability to impact the project launch is out of the hands of the tool shop. […]