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Collaborative Hot Runner Design to Improve Mold Performance
Improving injection mold performance requires understanding hot runner needs and options.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Advances in Video Collaboration
Everything is about video nowadays. Whether it is used to educate, explain, market, storytell, politicize or excite, to name a few. This throwback shows how video can be used on the shopfloor to help improve customer communication.
Read MoreElectromobility and Digitalization Drive Future Cutting Tool Technology
MMT European Correspondent Barbara Schulz gets the lowdown on a new cutting tool team set to bring cutter and material-related technology to the next level.
Read MoreTechnology Tuesday: All about Aluminum
Cruise through this week’s Technology Tuesday slideshow to brush up on your knowledge of aluminum, its benefits, the challenges it poses for moldmaking and strategies for overcoming those challenges.
Read MoreHow to Proactively Engage Educators with Plastics
RJG Inc. participates in Tuesdays for Teachers initiative to further engage educators with plastics industry career opportunities and STEM teaching resources.
Read MoreIt’s About What You Do With What You Have
What is a Leadtime Leader? A company that performs beyond the status quo using any and all resources available to it. It’s not about being the biggest, most fancy shop. It’s about working smarter and with a passion for what you do.
Read MoreThankful for Many Blessings
I love this industry and I feel very privileged to be a moldmaker’s daughter.
Read MoreDemo Mold Teaching and Marketing Tool
I can’t lie. It’s refreshing these days to get something in your mailbox that you can hold in your hands versus an email. This week I got a nifty little demo mold in the mail that I then used to explain to my son just how a mold works. What a simple teaching tool and a great marketing tool.
Read MoreTechnology Tuesday: EDM Success
Cruise through this week’s Technology Tuesday slideshow to see EDM units that shops across the country have used to increase capacity and leverage greater efficiency in their processes.
Read MoreTake a Look Inside Deep Hole Drilling
Do I have your attention with this shot? It’s the inside of a gun barrel. What does that have to do with moldmaking? More than you think when it comes to deep hole drilling your waterlines, cross hole drilling, and deep pockets at compound angles, and on one machine instead of three—boring, five-axis machining and deep hole drilling in one accurate yet approachable machine.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: No Pain, No Gain
Today is my birthday, and although it can stink getting older, it is fun getting wiser, especially when I can share that wisdom with my son and nieces and nephews. One thing I have learned over the years is that working hard and earning something is much better than just receiving it for free. And this falls in line with my throwback pick this week, which I selected simply based on my birth date (just to keep things simple today).
Read MoreTechnology Tuesday: The Latest Products
Cruise through this week’s Technology Tuesday slideshow to see some of the latest products.
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