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Five-Axis Portal Milling Machine Enables Precise Processing of Long Components

IMTS 2024: With the custom machine line FZG, Zimmermann offers a five-axis portal milling machine with a low rail gantry in their program, which is designed for processing long components.

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Basics

How to Overcome Five Common Hot Runner Cable Connection Problems

Here are some simple solutions for pushed-back or bent pins, pushed-back inserts, high amp deterioration, loose or broken latches and missing or loose ground wire connections.

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EDM

Integrated CAD/CAM Streamlines Electrode Manufacture, Improves Quality

A focus on electrode design and automation helps toolroom improve efficiency, reduce tooling costs and deliver higher quality products.

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Five Axis

Five-Axis Machining Cell Enables Unmanned Operation

IMTS 2024: Kitamura Machinery showcases the Supercell-300G five-axis, horizontal machining cell designed for compact machining and a pallet pool system, along with other CNC automation systems.

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Make Every Shot Count: Mold Simulation Maximizes Functional Parts From Printed Tooling

If a printed tool only has a finite number of shots in it, why waste any of them on process development?

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Machining

Machining Lineup Features Intelligent Manufacturing Technology

IMTS 2024: Okuma’s booth features CNC machine tools, a CNC control, a line of automation systems, intelligent manufacturing technologies, customer services and more.

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Case Study

In "Hybrid" FIM Process, 3D Printing Complements Injection Molding

Alpine Advanced Materials used a desktop 3D printer and the freeform injection molding process to reduce prototype tooling production time and cost for its customers.  

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Mold Components

How to Supply Cooling to Additive Tooling

Additive tooling provides limitless options for cooling a mold’s difficult-to-cool areas.

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Machining

Siemens CNC Portfolio Demonstrates Mold Machining Digitization

IMTS 2024: Bringing together a number of its hardware automation, digitalization software and services, Siemens present a path toward machine tool digitalization that is already helping mold and die shops invest in their future.

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VIDEO: Enhancing Data-Driven Decisions with Cloud-Based Mold Monitoring

Steps to improve data-driven decision-making and key features of a cloud-based system for mold monitoring and asset management.  

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