Design & Mfg. Software

1 Mar 2015

Simplify Mold Machining

Use true five-axis simultaneous machining for your molds and inserts.

1 Feb 2015

Initial Pellet Contact is the Screw

Here’s what every moldmaker should know about an injection molding machine’s reciprocating screw, which is often misunderstood and applied to the process incorrectly.

1 Feb 2015

A Dynamic Approach to Prototype Tooling

Software that adapts to the demands of varying cutting conditions helps this moldmaker adapt to the demands of a varying workload.

9 Jan 2015

New Blog Series: The Designer's Edge

Here's to a new year and a new bi-weekly blog series by guest blogger Randy Kerkstra that will offer ways to design and use the mold for effective troubleshooting and for yielding the largest processing window possible. We appreciate Randy's willingness to share his passion for solving problems and lessons learned throughout his 27 years in mold building and molding. We hope this series begins an ongoing dialogue on how mold shops can have a bigger impact on the molding process.

6 Jan 2015

VIDEO: How to Machine a Football

We are in the heat of football season, so what better time to showcase how a football is machined.This video shows a model American Football being created out of 6061 Aluminium with a Toyoda UX-570 5 axis machine with a 3D offset toolpath: 0.032 dia cutter mounted in a Typhoon HSM Jet Spindle using thru spindle coolant at 36,000 RPM and 400 IPM.

1 Jan 2015

The Will and the Way to Automate Mold Design

Persistence and the right technology enabled this automotive toolmaker to give programmers a head start on new projects and dramatically reduce calculation times.

1 Jan 2015

Plastic Injection Molding Starts with the Pellet

This is the first article in a new series that will examine the injection molding process by breaking down the path a plastic pellet takes as it is transformed from Pellet 2 Part. It covers what every moldmaker should know about raw materials, including the fundamentals of viscosity curves, Melt Flow Index, Melt Flow Rate, shear and more.

23 Dec 2014