Industry 40
Simple Productivity Gains with Mold Design Automation
A look at where to find productivity gains within your mold design operations, as the complexity of components and materials used continues to increase.
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Automation Investment Yields Speed and Flexibility
In 2004, Industrial Molds Group took the first steps toward integrating automation to reduce both costs and turnaround times.
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Sustained Commitment to Automation Reaps Rewards
Through consistent automation strategies, one mold shop was able to implement new equipment and ramp up training, allowing them to accelerate out of tough times and be prepared for upcoming business opportunities.
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2010 Leadtime Leader Award Small Shop Winner Mold Craft, Inc.: Innovation with Automation
With an average leadtime of eight weeks, Mold Craft, Inc. (Willernie, MN)—this year’s Small Shop Leadtime Leader Award Winner—builds tight-tolerance, high-volume, multi-cavity and multi-mold projects that produce small, intricate, precision plastic parts.
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Automation: Where to Begin And End
How mold manufacturers are benefitting from today’s automation options.
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Automation Division Paves Way to New Customers
Ohio-based FPM Tooling and Automation found new unconventional markets when it launched a division focused on automotive.
Read MoreEDM, 5-Axis Milling and Automation Technologies
GF AgieCharmilles will be demonstrating a wide variety of complementary EDM, 5-axis milling and automation technologies in its primary booth, S-8754, at IMTS 2010.
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Simple Automation Helps Offset Economic Downturn for Moldmaking Applications
Reducing costs and achieving greater productivity within an existing mold manufacturing facility, while improving customer service, are all essential to softening the impact of these uncertain economic times. It’s a difficult challenge, but one that can be successfully met by initiating simple automation. Simple automation is the installation and integration of automated storage and retrieval systems— such as vertical and horizontal carousels and vertical lift modules (VLMs)—into mold manufacturing operations.
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Can Moldmakers Use Robotics Automation?
The pressures in today’s economic climate leave many companies struggling to find ways to contain manufacturing costs. One overlooked strategy applies to robotics automation.
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Mold Design Tips for Automation
Automation suppliers can assist mold manufacturers with proper mold design and engineering before cutting steel for new molds. Hot runner molds, cold runner molds, box filling, insert molding, stack molds and multi-component molding are areas that can be built and managed more inexpensively, reliably and simpler.
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