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Showing 51 – 60 of 84 resultsExpanding your moldmaking shop’s capabilities and efficiency will lead to a more profitable business. Here’s an overview of the technology—hardware and software—that will get you there.
While TIG (tungsten inert gas) welding may be the go-to for mold welding in many shops, high-power pulsed laser welding is a higher-quality process that can deliver repaired molds that perform like new.
With the right tools and experience, a mold can be plated and maintained with confidence no matter where it originated or what materials were used to build it.
One mold builder leveraged ERP software to maximize its productivity and achieve consistent on-time delivery.
Determining repair shop space requirements.
The European tool and moldmaking industry has moved from manual to industrial production via internationalization, digitalization, automation and communication.
Leaving injection mold maintenance to chance is a costly oversight. Using standardized methods of improvement, as explained here, can yield real change to company practices as well as significant returns on a company’s tooling investment.
A look at one project to move away from traditionally customized moldmaking toward a level of complete automation that raises the bar on accuracy, repeatability and control.
Fine tuning a CNC machine for maximum speed and having the ability to run lights-out machining means controlling a wide variety of elements like tool holding. The inherent benefit of shrink-fit technology, as compared to other tool holding options, is that it virtually eliminates the toolholder as a variable for error.
