MMT Blog
Manufacturing Film Festival
High schools partnered with manufacturers in a video challenge to educate students about career opportunities in manufacturing, and you can be a part of selecting the winner to be honored during a film festival next week.
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Giving up their Saturday Mornings for What..?
Here's a shop that knows how to lure teens out of their beds to come and learn about manufacturing on a Saturday morning! Who would have known?
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Moldmakers Do Better Setups than Bartenders
If you can't tell from that headline, it's that time of year again. Time for you to send us your top 10 reasons to be a moldmaker, so we can create our annual free t-shirt giveaway that shows off the industry's humor! Here is a taste of some of our past winning entries to help get you thinking in the right direction.
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Straight from the Apprentices’ Mouths
See another side of a shop featured in MMT's April issue, but from the apprentices' viewpoints.
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Appliance and Medical
Increase in housing permits positive for appliance production; medical production could be turning up.
Read MoreLegacy Precision Mold: An Inside View
Get an inside look into the technology and machines that make manufacturing products a reality every day at Legacy Precision Molds from the apprentice perspective.
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Driving Cost Out of the Value Chain
Study reveals cost challenges among the automotive tooling supply chain and recommendations for driving profitable growth.
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Designer's Edge: Hydraulics for Slides, Ejection or Cores
Randy discusses tips and tricks for avoiding mold downtime when it comes to hydraulics for slides, ejection or cores and hot runner plugs or connections.
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Improving Sequential Molding
For large injection-molded parts, a servo-driven valve gate system can improve surface finish and part performance.
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Using Data to Improve Mold Performance
An easy way to get a snapshot of how a mold is operating is to run regular mold scans via a hot runner temperature controller.
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The Bottom Line: Weathering the State Tax Nexus Storm
Under this concept, a company has sufficient physical presence in a state for that state to subject that company to taxes.
Read MoreProving the Advantages of a Servo-Driven Valve Gate System
One innovation for improving sequential injection molding centers around the use of servomotor technology.New servo-driven valve gate systems incorporate a toggle-type mechanism that operates the valve pin position at 90 degrees from the servomotor stroke.
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