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PlastiVan Advocates Early for Careers in Plastics and Moldmaking
The mission of PlastiVan, a national STEM educational outreach program, is to change the perception of plastics one classroom at a time and promote careers in plastics.
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2022 Sourcing & Technology Guide: Machining
Machining (via the machine tool and cutting tool) shapes metal workpieces. Understanding both traditional and advanced machining techniques is critical to overcoming the various dimensional and finish challenges.
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VIDEO: Simplify Mold Management of Your Tooling Fleet
In this digital demo, Progressive Components explains its basic asset management and mold monitoring system, ProFile, where it is possible to monitor all your assets in one place.
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2022 Sourcing & Technology Guide: EDM
EDM refers to wire, sinker and small-hole electrical discharge machining. Components include drives, generators, programming, flushing, wires, electrodes, graphite, filters and fluids.
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2022 Sourcing & Technology Guide: Additive Manufacturing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, simplifies the moldmaking process by making mold inserts, mold components, end-use parts and ancillary equipment.
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Moldmaking Index Continues Slowing Expansion Trend
The Gardner Business Index (GBI) and the majority of its components showed up in June at a slowing rate of expansion that has not been seen since early 2021.
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2022 Sourcing & Technology Guide: Mold Components
Mold components make the mold work and the mechanisms used to deliver a quality end product. Key components include mold bases, pins, ejectors, lifters, bushings, guides and alignment devices.
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VIDEO: How to Change Out Molds in 10 Minutes or Less
Is a 10-minute mold change possible? Check out this demo to see how it can be done.
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From Injection Mold Venting to Runnerless Micro Molds: MMT's Top-Viewed June Content
The MoldMaking Technology team has compiled a list of the top-viewed June content based on analytics. This month, we covered an array of topics including injection mold venting, business strategies and runnerless micro molds. Take a look at what you might have missed!
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2022 Sourcing & Technology Guide: Software
Design and engineering are essential to building a better and more cost-effective mold with shorter lead times. A variety of software is available to help overcome the daily challenges faced with data, quoting, designing and programming.
Read MoreExploring ISO 9000 - Part 16 Control of Quality Records
A Series of International Standards for Quality Management and Quality Assurance. We begin 2022 with a review of Clause 4.16 Control of Quality Records.
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ICYMI, MMT Chats: Mold Design Meets Product Development & Education
For this MMT Chat, my guest is Rick Seaberg, an engineering manager for Medline Industries of Northfield, Illinois. He is also one of MMT’s newer Editorial Advisory Board members. Rick and I take a trip down memory lane and then look forward to today’s trends and challenges in mold design and engineering. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.
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