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Sustained Commitment to Automation Reaps Rewards
Through consistent automation strategies, one mold shop was able to implement new equipment and ramp up training, allowing them to accelerate out of tough times and be prepared for upcoming business opportunities.
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Four Key Uses of Prototyping
Prototyping helps evaluate and test a design, clarify production costs, sell a product and secure patents.
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Laser Sintering And Conformal Cooling Channels
Moldmakers who are interested in exploring conformal cooling, but are concerned about its complexity and expense need to understand two things: it is neither complex nor expensive.
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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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Small Shop HM CS Tool Engineering: The Business Of Customer Service
Despite its location in Cedar Springs, MI—a state that has been hard hit by the economic downturn—CS Tool Engineering, Inc. has landed the 2010 Leadtime Leader Award Small Shop Honorable Mention by constantly investing in technology and offering its customers complete customer service with leadtimes between 10 and 12 weeks.
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Automation: Where to Begin And End
How mold manufacturers are benefitting from today’s automation options.
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Value of Retrofitting A Machine With a Robot
How a company can do more with existing equipment and manpower.
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Automation Division Paves Way to New Customers
Ohio-based FPM Tooling and Automation found new unconventional markets when it launched a division focused on automotive.
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From the Field: Programming Software for Producing Playmobile Toy Molds
If it is still the norm in many tool- and moldmaking businesses to carry out programming either offline or directly on the machine, then the Playmobil example shows that a combination of both provides a lot of scope for creating and implementing new ideas.
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