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Amerimold 2019 Update: What You Should Know about Additive Manufacturing for Conformal Cooling
This panel discussion will present in detail the different AM technologies available today, their advantages and disadvantages, and specific ways to implement these technologies without issue.
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Machine Learning for Mold Monitoring 101
Outsourced tooling supply chain management system offers data automation, more in-depth tooling analytics and performance trend measurements.
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How to Better Balance Family Molds
A servo-driven valve gate can provide superior processing for family molds with significant variances in part sizes and volumes.
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How to Determine the Proper Vent Depth
Vent depth is critical to optimizing mold performance, so here is one approach to finding that elusive right number.
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How to Improve Melt Distribution with Diffusion-Bonded Manifolds
Diffusion bonding for manifold manufacturing offers design freedom for optimizing hot runner melt distribution, reducing color change-over time, cavity-to-cavity weight variation, peak injection pressures, melt degradation, and resin flow stress.
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Maintaining Mold Components
Toolroom technicians must include frame plates, frame components, and cavity tooling when developing a mold maintenance plan.
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Surface Treatments Protect Mold Finishes, Reduce Downtime and Part Failure
Surface treatment vendors are expanding their services to include more treatment options, advanced technologies and convenience.
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How to Avoid Tool Steel Corrosion
A mold builder should consider corrosion resistance, hardness, machinability, processing, polishability, operational environment and wear resistance during tool steel selection.
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How to Offer Employees More Than a Normal Job
Austrian moldmaker Haidlmair focuses on its 550 people in a very unconventional way, as it continues to be a leading specialist in building high-quality tools for beverage crates, folding boxes, and garbage containers.
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How to Hard-Mill Effectively
These are five rules for improving cutter performance and cutter life while maintaining tight tolerances during hard milling.
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