MMT Blog
Sourcing at Your Fingertips
According to our MoldMaking Business Index, mold manufacturers are remaining optimistic about future business expectations, and at the same time are researching and investing in appropriate technologies to improve their business operations. So this year’s Technology Review and Sourcing Guide comes at an appropriate time. This guide highlights some of the year’s latest moldmaking product developments with mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair.
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Need Some R&D Funding?
It may be worth your time to take a look at this grant opportunity presented by The National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Worth a Second Look
Last month at amerimold I briefly met Craig Cegielski of Eleva-Strum Tech/Cardinal Manufacturing, but what really struck me was the buzz around the show about Craig and his students. So much buzz that I thought I'd better re-post about this extraordinary program.
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Understand Your Tools
"Challenge us to help you do what you do more effectively." Those were the words of Ingersoll Cutting Tools President Chuck Edler as he kicked off the Die & Mold Seminar this morning, which honed in on understanding the precise tools necessary for the delicate processes of mold manufacturing--milling, high-volume roughing, high-feed roughing, aluminum machining, gun drilling and hole making to name a few.
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Consumer Spending Sluggish in the Second Quarter
The consensus estimate is that the economy grew at an annualized rate of only 0.5% during the last quarter.
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Schooled in Surface Grinding and Duplex Milling
A simple machine tool company visit yesterday exposed exciting advancements in surface grinding coming down the pike and duplex milling technology taking off in the American marketplace. For a solid two hours, I was schooled in CNC high-precision forming and surface grinders as well as plate milling and duplex milling machines.
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Flexible Moldmaking
An innovative approach to multi-component injection molding can be seen in a “Flexi-Cube” mold--the first mold of this type was delivered for a 3-component handle in a 24-cavity layout. Here is a glimpse of this particular 5-station mold.
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Workshop for Warriors Training Our Veterans
This wonderful organization just graduated its first class of certified waterjet operators.
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Have We Declared War on Work?
If you have 20 minutes to spare, here is a great video I came across that challenges many of the "notions of work" we possess and how many of them are wrong.
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Reshoring Hits the Front Page
Reshoring is "old news" to some, but boy was I thrilled to see it FINALLY make the front page of my local paper! And not just one story, they are starting a series. It kicked off with a story on K'NEX, a local toy manufacturer that has brought its work back to the U.S.
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Mfg. Output Picked Up Slightly in June, Plastics Output Strong
Historical analysis suggests that demand for new molds rises sharply when the production of plastics parts expands at a rate of 4% or more for a sustained period of time. Plastics parts output has grown at a rate exceeding 4% for about the past year and a half. So if history is any guide, then moldmakers should soon start to enjoy a noticeable increase in demand for new molds.
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In-Mold Labeling Innovations
StackTeck—always on the cutting edge of technology—continues to innovate with its pilot cell that allows for an early pre-launch simulation of how the production system will run at a later time.
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