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Six key questions to ask before investing in a flushing system.

This free on-demand workshop reviews 1 of the 5 critical components to continuous improvement—mold maintenance documentation—and shares a “test” to score your toolroom on its mold maintenance documentation strategy.

Maintaining a typical hot runner system takes mold maintenance skills to the next level.

Advancing from a mold repair culture to a mold maintenance culture can only be fully supported with a companywide understanding of what the real costs are and what the real potential savings can be.

After attending an intensive three-day mold maintenance workshop earlier this year, it was a real pleasure to sit down with two of the workshop’s mold maintenance educators to learn more about what makes them tick both personally and professionally.

The key to successfully educating mold builders and molders about mold maintenance is to listen twice as much as you talk for the improvement in finding problems and creating solutions.

Beaumont’s AIM Institute and MoldTrax team up to present Proactive Strategies to Troubleshoot Mold Performance Issues.

The reason we are kicking off the event with this topic is because at the heart of making things is the mold, and since the mold impacts every link in the supply chain—OEM/brand owner toolrooms, molding facilities and mold building shops—mold maintenance is vital. So we felt it’s only appropriate to kick off this event with a “virtual” hands-on look at a proper hot runner preventative maintenance routine.

Mold cleaning is just one part of a systematic and comprehensive approach to mold maintenance. Here’s one moldmaker’s strategy for injection mold cleaning and an explanation of where and why different techniques are employed.

Husqvarna and MoldTrax have teamed up to review a PM action plan and the barriers to systemize and change the mold maintenance and repair culture across multiple facilities.