Automation
Invest Now in Die/Mold Automation to Meet Growing Customer Demand
In today’s highly competitive global marketplace, there are two types of mold shop owners, (1) those who invest in new technology and automation to create innovative ways to meet customer demands for shorter lead times, more complex designs and tighter tolerances and (2) those show don’t invest and quickly fall behind other North American shops and low-cost, offshore manufacturers. Here is a case study from Makino about one mold builder who fits nicely into type number one.
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Lights, Smart Phone, RECRUIT!
Elena Valentine, CEO of Chicago-based Skill Scout Inc., an experiential hiring firm, gives manufacturers some valuable tips about how to attract and hire the next generation workforce.
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Precise Tooling Solutions of Columbus, Indiana!
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What’s Your ‘Secret Ingredient?’
Given all the mold manufacturing companies I’ve visited or learned about, one detail continues to ring true with all of them: That “secret ingredient” to building a top-quality mold.
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ICYMI, International Perspective: From Craftsmanship to Production
To be successful, a shop must be better, faster, more efficient and more flexible than the competition, and this requires automation across all of its operations.
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Powerful Production
Automated cells with RFID technology facilitate a “productionized” approach that helps this shop make molds more accurately and efficiently.
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Keeping the EDM and Holiday Lights Burning
With Christmas right around the corner, some holiday spirit found at Industrial Molds Group inspired this blog.
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SLIDEHOW: Process Automation and Planning Strategies
I sometimes forget that many technology suppliers to the moldmaking industry are also manufacturers that use many of the same products and equipment that you do, while facing similar challenges. For example, last month during the K Show in Germany I had the opportunity to visit Hasco’s corporate headquarters in Ludenscheid.
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Incorporating Robotics
Consider robots in part and mold design, and molding processes to increase part quality and meet growing customer demands.
Read MoreA Hi-Tech Molding Machine in Action
Check out this video taken during the official opening of Hi-Tech Mold and Engineering's new Technology Center. It shows a fully automated Engel duo 3500-ton "smart" molding machine demoing (dry) a Hi-Tech mold for an interior automotive part.
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