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Wear Parts and Consumables: The Keys to Maximizing Your EDM
Mold shops need to pay attention to the potential impact wear parts and consumables can have on their overall production.
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Rapid Tooling Via Stereolithography Gets a Closer Look
Industry roundtable reports initial findings.
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Maintaining a Strong Relationship with Your Hot Runner Supplier
Once your hot runner supplier is chosen, you need to take the proper steps to maintain a mutually beneficial, long-term relationship.
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Up Close and Personal
Getting up close and personal with the latest current and emerging technologies affecting the mold industry is the best way for mold manufacturers not only to see what is out there.
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Selecting the Right Gating Method for Your Application
Designers may select among four hot runner gating methods, each with its advantages and disadvantages.
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How to Choose the Right Tool Coating for Your Machining Application
Selection criteria and common coating attributes for PVD, CVD and other common coatings.
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Three Influences that Are Critical to Mold Performance
Analysis, integrated design and value-engineering play an important role in choosing the right hot runner supplier.
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Part Two of a Three-Part Series Five Steps for Improving Your Shop’s Maximum Productivity Part 2
The reasons and justification behind moving your component finishing operation from EDM sinking to hard milling with the right machine, software, cutters, toolholders and training; and how you can add machine time to your shop through lights out machining.
Read MoreLooking Sharp
Advancements in cutting tool/toolholder construction yield better stability and higher accuracy to achieve greater feedrates and increased productivity.
Read MoreHow to Exceed the Limits of Your Toolpaths
A moldmaker’s ability to reduce machining time is not limited by his machine tools or cutting tools, but rather by the toolpaths that drive them.
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