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Safety

Mold and Plate Supports Enhance Shop Floor Safety

Progressive Components offers RhinoFeet and RhinoToes, support pads that eliminate trip hazards, elevate molds and hot runner systems and can be easily stored. 

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Regulations

Mold Cleaner Uses EPA-Exempt VOC Compounds 

Slide Products’ X-EMPT mold cleaner guarantees air quality regulation compliance for plastic processors.

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Ceramic Fiber Brushes Enables Fast, Automated Deburring and Surface Finishing

The automated Xebec Brush features woven ceramic fibers for consistent cutting action, high-speed finishing solutions.  

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Industry 40

Laser Processing System Integrates Automation For Complete Precision and Flexibility

ACSYS Lasertechnik’s Multishift system is fully automatic, including a robotic arm and integration with OCR, OPR and dynamic focus control for a very precise laser processing finish.

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Three Advances in Mold Measurement

Points from focus technology, micro scanning probe machines and chromatic position sensors offer mold measurement options. 

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Intelligent Lifting Point Achieves Greater Load Weights

RUD ACP-TURNADO bolt diameters are offered in a range of new sizes for load weights up to 16 tons, expanding its application range.

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FAQ

How to Use Reverse Engineering to Reduce Mold Tuning Time

Mold builders can reduce the number of iterations required to yield acceptable parts with a new tool, a damaged mold or a copy of an existing tool using modern data collection techniques and advanced surface modeling technologies.

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Industry 40

Step 1 of Your Maintenance 4.0 Documentation Strategy

This free on-demand workshop reviews 1 of the 5 critical components to continuous improvement—mold maintenance documentation—and shares a “test” to score your toolroom on its mold maintenance documentation strategy.

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Free Webinar Today: Is Your Mold Maintenance Documentation Reactive, Basic, Average, Best Practice or World Class?

Find out in this free webinar that will not only review the changing mold maintenance landscape, explain the importance of a 4.0 culture, break down the 8 factors of mold performance, provide examples of “futile” work order systems, instruct how to create standard terms, it will also score your toolroom’s mold maintenance documentation strategies.  

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Do You Know Your Toolroom's Mold Maintenance Documentation Score?

Does your toolroom have a Reactive, Basic, Average, Best Practice or World Class culture when it comes to collecting and using Industry 4.0-type mold maintenance documentation? Steve Johnson and Glenn Keith of MoldTrax will help you answer that question during this FREE webinar on March 30 at 2PM EST.

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