Maintenance & Repair
Learning About Machines and Systems Up Close
Amerimold 2017 had many new and different activities for attendees this year, including demos and presentations about machines and systems to help moldmakers optimize their processes and get higher-quality results.
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Maintenance Matters: Got Flash? Shim it!
In some cases, shimming is the most cost-effective, short-term method for adding a bit of steel right where its needed to get through a critical production run.
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Advanced Mold Welding: Sharing Decades’ Worth of Lessons Learned
Our new contributor considers welding a vital part of moldmaking and plans to share his experiences.
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Test Rig Ensures Mold Cooling Channels Work at Peak Efficiency
It’s no secret among moldmakers that optimized mold cooling is essential for achieving faster cycle times and flawless, injection-molded parts.
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Classifying Mold Maintenance Complexity
Molds, and the products they produce, present a variety of challenges for repair technicians, which makes classifying each mold with a degree of difficulty (DOD) essential for efficient and proficient mold repair.
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Toolroom Systems Boost Safety, Productivity
A mold separator and a water leak tester were the right solutions for this Minnesota shop offering both mold and molding operations.
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Metrics for Assessing Maintenance Skills
Since the job description, qualifications, direction and goals may not be so clear, assessing a repair technician’s value can be confusing. Objective, tangible metrics are a must.
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Motivating Skilled Toolroom Craftsmen
Steve Johnson, president of MoldTrax, has a lot to say about mold maintenance. So much so, that we could not fit it all into his February "Maintenance Matters" column. Here are some extra pointers that didn't make the cut, but are just as important.
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Maintenance Matters: It's the Manager's Fault
Improving worker engagement starts with leadership at the manager level or, in our case, the toolroom manager.
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Throwback Thursday: The Black Art
With my mold maintenance champion returning to the pages of MMT next month with his new "Maintenance Matters" series, I thought I'd revisit the start of his original series with us back in 2004.
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