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Rising Stars and Scholarships
It's always good to hear about kids who are interested in manufacturing, and it's even better when we recognize them. Both the AMBA and SME have recently done just that.
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Moldmaking in the Mainstream?
Will moldmaking in the mainstream help attract a future generation. Going to the source to get honest answers may help. It continues to amaze me how kids today still don't find manufacturing exciting; or, is it that we've just done a very poor job of marketing ourselves. I strongly believe the latter is the hard truth, and something which we need to address hard and fast!
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Perfect Plastics Parts
It's not too often I come across a molder/moldmaker that knows how to market itself as well as set itself up as an "educator" to its current and potential customers. The Rodon Group is one such company and via their blog they share their top four factors for producing perfect plastic parts.
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Mainstream Moldmaking?
Will moldmaking in the mainstream help attract a future generation. Going to the source to get honest answers may help.
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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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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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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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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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Resolving to Collect Cars
With its more than 150 years of combined engineering and manufacturing experience, Fairway Injection Molding Systems of Walnut, CA, combines its precision technology with an ability to produce high-cavitation, high-volume molds for products in the medical, pharmaceutical, closure, personal care and technology industries. However, this story is about the love for automotive, or at least classic cars
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