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Mold Cooling Options
A look at three options for integrating conformal cooling into a core or cavity with an emphasis on vacuum brazing.
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Cutting Tool Considerations as Mold Complexity Increases
A look from the shop floor at some of the factors to consider during your cutting tool selection decision-making process to optimize your mold machining operations.
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Angles Stop Negative Areas from Undercutting the Injection Process
The new vertical lifter design provides a range of advantages during mold construction: space savings, easier machining and simplicity of assembly.
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Conquering the Complex Task of Tool Optimization
Standard coatings can help, but to achieve really impressive results all the factors must be coordinated with one another—from the base material of the tool to the post treatment of the coating.
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Think Metric, Part 3
Insight from several technology suppliers—in design software, mold components, programming, machines, cutting tools and measurement equipment who have been following the metric trend—may help to make the transition a smooth one.
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Integrating Electrode Production
How CAD/CAM can help make the design, machining and inspection of electrodes completely integrated.
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How to Optimize Moldmaking Milling Operations
The lead angle of your cutter has a dramatic effect on not only the chip that you generate, but also the cutting forces in both the axial and the radial directions.
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Supercharging Rough Machining Performance with Advanced Tooling
What is amazing is that the shop is confident it could run the Seco cutter at 500 ipm if the machine was capable. It is this reason that Build-A-Mold is in the process of acquiring newer, faster equipment.
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Siemens and KUKA Announce Cooperation
Joint solutions offered: integrated, operator-friendly loading of machine tools using robots; integration of robotics and CNC solutions for machining workpieces with robots; strengthening the fundamental idea of integrated production processes; and, development of new applications in lightweight construction.
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