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High-Performance Graphite Electrode Machining

Today, it is popular to talk of eliminating electrodes for hard die milling.

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Basics

How to Choose a Machining Service Provider

Rather than drive your business into the ground by trying to purchase extra equipment, get help and outsource to a shop that specializes in each specific machining method.

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Automation in Electrode Milling

Excell Machine and Tool saw significant benefits by automating its graphite machining center.

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Getting to Market with Rapid Cut Tooling

Companies needing injection-molded components are using rapid cut tooling (RCT) to meet the challenges of the marketplace.

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Hot Runners

Heater Selection and Tips to Successful Heater Installation

Design of a mold should ideally include the heater in order to locate the heat where it is really needed. Access to heaters, thermocouples and connectors is crucial to a good mold design.

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3D Printing

Blending Rapid Tooling with Conventional Moldmaking

The issues of if and when to use rapid tooling (RT) are becoming critical topics in the manufacturing community.

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Cutting Tools

Don't Panic When Cutting Tools Fail!

Shop remanufactures cutting tools quickly and to specifications during a tool break in your production line.

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Tool Steel

Advances in Automation for Mold and Die - High-Performance Machining and EDM

Recent developments in automation are providing benefits for the high-performance machining (HPM) of electrodes and steel mold components.

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Issues, Trends and Developments in HSM

An overview of the state-of-the-art and future developments in moldmaking using high-speed machining processes for milling applications.

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Rapid Tooling - Cast Resin and Sprayed Metal Tooling

Indirect tooling methods use the RP process to generate a pattern from which tooling inserts are made. This article describes two such indirect tooling processes - cast resin and sprayed metal tooling.

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