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First-Time IMTS Experience: Uncovering Innovations for Moldmakers

Attending my first IMTS with the MoldMaking Technology team gave me the chance to explore a variety of products, equipment and services that will benefit moldmakers while engaging with industry experts.

Overcoming Barriers to Automation Integration in Precision Moldmaking

It’s easy to imagine the advantages automation offers the moldmaking process, but it's challenging to change one’s mindset, develop a plan and invest.

Erowa Highlights Process-Reliable Clamping and Automation for Moldmaking

IMTS 2024: Erowa offers its VPC (Vise Power Clamp) clamping system for powerful and precise clamping of vises, fixtures and workpieces to benefit moldmakers.

Innovative Technology for Your Mold Shop at IMTS 2024: Part 1

MoldMaking Technology highlights a variety of innovative applications featured this year at IMTS 2024. From software solutions to new machines and services, dive into this comprehensive guide to best equip your mold shop.

Integrated CAD/CAM Streamlines Electrode Manufacture, Improves Quality

A focus on electrode design and automation helps toolroom improve efficiency, reduce tooling costs and deliver higher quality products.

Eden Tool and Eden Manufacturing: A Story of Resilience, Growth and Innovation

This critical parts manufacturer, founded on solid tooling fundamentals, didn’t get derailed with the unexpected passing of the owner because leadership was already building a solid business, not just a good tool shop. Here’s how they managed change incrementally… and they’re not finished yet.

Using Automation to Reduce COGS and Stay Globally Competitive

Decade-long, multiphase automation investments lower operating costs and maintain technology lead in an increasingly competitive global market.

Extensive Evaluations Build The Plastek Group’s EDM Arsenal

Sinker and wire EDMs selected for speed, volumetric accuracy, surface finish, reliability, cost of ownership and extensive warranty.

IMTS 2022 in a Flash

With this still being the month of IMTS, I thought I’d highlight some of the technology mold builders have expressed growing interest in and are actively investigating, and what was on the show floor.

Bringing Market-Specific Engineering Experience to Every Project

Experience, acumen and attention to detail help Prodigy Mold & Tool create value and build long-lasting customer relationships.

Industry 4.0 Zero-Point Tooling System Provides Operational Security

The MTS 4.0 smart tooling technology from Erowa is a precise interface between machine, workpiece and tool to optimize production processes and make them safer.

How to Cut Mold Machining Costs in Half

How to hard mill and finish grind in a single setup, including an in-machine probing inspection.

2021 Leadtime Leader Award Winner: Westminster Tool—Perseverance with a Plan

Westminster Tool’s latest commitment to the plan—investment in new technologies, processes and capabilities, workforce development/training and sales & marketing—helped them edge out this year’s competition.

Erowa Technology to Preview PowerChuck P to Amerimold Attendees

The new system offers users a more flexible and precise interface between machine and workpiece, with 10,000 N clamping force, a compact design and complete automation.

Mold Builder’s Automated 24/7 Unattended Machining Speeds Up Simple to Complex Mold Builds

Industrial Molds, a division of Pyramid Molding Group specialize in designing, engineering and special machining to create quality, precision tooling.

The Lean Dream Team: How to Achieve High-Cavitation, Critical Dimension Molds

Incorporating multiple automation technologies enables Industrial Molds to produce and repair highly complex, precision molds with a very lean team.

Using the Right Technology at the Right Time and in the Right Way

Michigan mold and die maker puts its engineering expertise to work for each customer.

Makino Continues to Raise the Bar on Machining Technologies

Packed with information to help attendees advance moldmaking, and more, Makino’s Technology Expo shows the company’s commitment to its customers’ successes.

2019 Technology Review: Mold Components

MoldMaking Technology’s 2019 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide offers some of the latest highlighted products and services from supplier companies from a variety of categories, including mold components.

Highly-Automated Tool Shop Achieves Efficient, Precise Medical Device Manufacturing

When a basketball player needs a knee replacement, standard implants simply won’t do. With a total of 18 different additive manufacturing systems, the Aesculap division of medical company B. Braun is the place to go to have custom implants printed to size. However, the highly-automated tool and mold shop has much more to offer when it comes to producing injection molds, complex progressive dies as well as prototypes and fixtures for series production.

The Most Viewed Products of 2018

MoldMaking Technology wraps up the year by showcasing the most-viewed products of 2018.

Strategic Shifts Enable Growth for Fairway Injection Molds

Since its 2017 acquisition by Westfall Technik Inc., Fairway Injection Molds has been making many strategic changes to its infrastructure in preparation for growth.

New Erowa SmartChucks Make Workholding Industry 4.0-Ready

Erowa unveils smart workholding and automation products at IMTS.

2018 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide: Machining

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is an accurate, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-use use guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. The year’s latest moldmaking product developments within mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair are broken down into 10 sections, including machining.

2018 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide: EDM

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is an accurate, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-use use guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. The year’s latest moldmaking product developments within mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair are broken down into 10 sections, including EDM.

Past LLA Winners Celebrate 15 Years of Moldmaking Excellence

Winning MoldMaking Technology’s Leadtime Leader Award helped these shops realize their strengths and recognize their weaknesses.

Tradeshow Tuesday: On Display at Amerimold 2018

Cruise through this week’s slideshow for a peek at some of what will be on display at Amerimold 2018.

Successful Supplier Nights Help "Mold" Careers

The Chicago Chapter of the American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) recently hosted its fourth successful supplier night fundraiser that continues to provide much-needed support for promoting careers in moldmaking.

Clamp Elements Are Versatile for Small-Batch Parts Production

Erowa says that they are simple to handle and serve a wide variety of applications while decreasing set-up times, increasing machining times and improving productivity.

Technology Tuesday: Automation Fuels Productivity

Cruise through this week’s Technology Tuesday blog to see ways in which automation is boosting productivity and efficiency in moldmaking.

Four European Countries in Three Days

The German Association of Tool and Mould Makers‘ (VDWF) networking event for young entrepreneurs took around 40 moldmakers on a three-day trip around Lake Constance in October 2017 to visit OEMs and innovative mold shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Realizing EDM's Full Potential with Automation

EMO Hannover 2017 was a showcase for EDM developments, automation solutions and software for data-driven manufacturing.

Technology Tuesday: EMO Wrap Up on EDM, Automation and Industry 4.0

EMO Hannover 2017 was a showcase for EDM developments, automation solutions and software for data-driven manufacturing. EDM technology is evolving through new machine designs, thermal stability, powerful generators, parts handling robots, linear handling systems and software solutions for future Industry 4.0 infrastructures.

Fun Friday: The Moldmaking Community Shows Patriotism, Heart and More

On September 15, 2017 our team at Alliance Specialties and Laser Sales partnered with our friends Tim and Kim Bartz from iWarriors and Mold Craft to host the inaugural Alliance iWarriors Charity Golf Outing.

Powerful Production

Automated cells with RFID technology facilitate a “productionized” approach that helps this shop make molds more accurately and efficiently.

Masters of the Details

The right information, the right culture and a systems approach to every operation ensure nothing escapes the scrutiny of this team of mold manufacturing specialists.

All According to Plan

This moldmaker influences its own destiny by staying true to itself, knowing exactly where it wants to go, and ensuring everyone in the organization understands how to get there.

Untapped Production

Automation allows this mold manufacturer to run its EDM machines nonstop for months.

2014 Leadtime Leader Awards Winner: Westminster Tool Inc.—Bridging the Gap without Losing Focus

A strong sense of self and a focus on people enabled this mold manufacturer to rapidly expand pre- and post-manufacturing services without getting overwhelmed by its own growth.

From Craft to Science

For this shop, efforts to adapt to technology that reduces the need for human labor have driven a fundamental and ongoing shift to a more standardized manufacturing process.

Implementing Automation

The first two shops I’ve visited as an editor for MoldMaking Technology have made major strides in implementing automation. They’ve also expanded their range of capabilities to cover more than just tooling.

“Fixing” to Get More Accurate, Increase Productivity with Automation

The Roku-Roku machine, EROWA workholding system and the EROWA Robot Multi form the production team. Optimally used, this team can deliver up to four times higher productivity.

Dedicated Electrode Design Module Revolutionizes Copper Electrode Production

A tooling manufacturer says the combination of a new Sodick EDM AG60L spark eroder and switching to Vero Software’s dedicated electrode design module, VISI Electrode, has completely revolutionized the production of their copper electrodes.

How to Produce Consistent, Repeatable Electrodes

When it comes to electrode production, workholding and automation technology must be accurate and consistent to ensure repeatability and reduce machining time.

A Story Worth Sharing

For years now, my husband and I have felt connected to the men and women who serve our country in the Armed Forces.

Another Memorable Trip for iWarriors

The moldmaking industry takes part in a movement to bring the gift of technology and communication to our Wounded Warriors.

How to Better Utilize Your Existing Equipment

It is time to begin to rebuild capacities and get the highest utilization out of your current shop equipment.

Richmond Tooling, Inc.: Tooling, Inc.: Success with Small Mold Building Niche

A group of 11 dedicated employees—several with more than 10 years with the company—are able to keep overhead costs down and pass those savings onto its customers.

Automation Investment Yields Speed and Flexibility

In 2004, Industrial Molds Group took the first steps toward integrating automation to reduce both costs and turnaround times.

2010 Leadtime Leader Award Small Shop Winner Mold Craft, Inc.: Innovation with Automation

With an average leadtime of eight weeks, Mold Craft, Inc. (Willernie, MN)—this year’s Small Shop Leadtime Leader Award Winner—builds tight-tolerance, high-volume, multi-cavity and multi-mold projects that produce small, intricate, precision plastic parts.

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