Analysis
Alliance for American Manufacturing Launches Job Tracker
The AAM is putting President Obama to the test! The association has launched a job tracker to check progress on his promise to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs.
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Hot Runner Data Provides Insight into Mold Market
The Committee for Equipment Statistics of the Society of the Plastics Industry has started to compile and report data on the market for hot runners. This is a new data set, so the amount of statistical analysis that can be performed is limited. But the trend in market demand for hot runners should ultimately prove quite interesting to moldmakers.
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Moldmaker Relies on Plastic Injection Analysis System for Perfect Plastic Cover
When a moldmaker received an order for a plastic cover from a company making electrical coupling components, they began the design and manufacturing process using a plastic injection analysis system, which checks mold design and the optimum placement of injection gates.
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Pairing GD&T with Industrial CT Helps with Moldmakers Part to Print Projects
Industrial CT scanning has become an integral part in GD&T and how the internal measurement of complex component parts should be facilitated.
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CMM Integral to Growth Strategy, Overall Capabilities
The appropriate strategy in precision measurement equipment additions helped YAMI satisfy customer quality and productivity levels. And the addition of future in-house mold building/repair/engineering capabilities will help serve their customer base even better.
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Appliance Output Will Rise in 2013
The data measuring total U.S. output of household appliances last registered a cyclical peak in 2004, and the industry has been declining ever since. That makes eight consecutive years in which the appliance industry in this country has been in a recession. During this time the industry contracted by 33 percent. The good news is that I expect this streak to end in 2013.
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Plastics Professor Challenges Students to Design Race Car!
Plastics Professor Jon Meckley unites middle schoolers and college students to bring a plastic product design to market—from part design and verification, to tool design, tool build, and product manufacturing.
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Measure Your Performance
It's time to see how you stack up. So consider being a part of the American Mold Builder’s Association second annual industry benchmarking survey. It's open to all industry moldmakers and the end result provides comparative performance data--both operational and financial. This information will help you identify and evaluate growth opportunities, while creating a stronger, more profitable operation.
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Improve Input Quality with the Right Tool Inspection and Monitoring System
Integrating efficient tool inspection before and after the cut with optimized tool performance in the cut improves mold manufacture’s efficiency and profitability.
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Inspection/Measurement Advances Yield Better Molds Faster
A roundtable discussion of the latest trends and developments in mold inspection and measurement technology highlights the cycle time reduction, accuracy improvement and cost decrease benefits.
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