Design & Mfg. Software
Mold Cooling Breakthroughs
“Radical” is not a word one expects to hear from a plastic injection molding company.
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Baffle Blades in Plastic Injection Molds
Turbulent-flow plastic baffles eliminate blow-by, significantly improving cooling and cycle times.
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Tooling Design for Silicone Molding
One of the biggest challenges in mold design for silicone molding is the runnerless molding system or cold deck.
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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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CAD/CAM/CAE Integration Eases Flow Simulation
Moldmakers benefit from having flow simulation as part of the CAD/CAM environment—reducing the time and effort involved in running a flow analysis study and getting the product to market.
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Impact of Hot Runners on Life Cycle Molding Costs
Five factors to consider when selecting your next hot runner solution.
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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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Is It Time for Some Preventive Mold and Hot Runner Maintenance?
Points to consider when planning preventive maintenance on a tool.
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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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