Plastic Injection Guide

2019-08-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Using Intelligent Machining Software

Progress in the realm of software offers moldmakers the opportunity to maximize the potential of their machining processes when it comes to maintaining extremely high surface finishes. With the consta...

2019-08-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Compensating for Thermal Expansion to Maintain Part Accuracy

Moldmakers, who must consistently produce very accurate and precise molds, need to learn how to overcome and work with thermal expansion. Parts’ overall accuracy is critical to moldmakers. Compe...

2019-08-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Yuan Zhenghai Team: An Innovation Team on New Technology

A team consists of 17 ordinary workers, named Yuan Zhenghai Team, in Jiangling Motors Corporation has made over 200 technology innovations, and rewritten the history of mould importation. The eng...

2019-08-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Sheet metal CAD/CAM raises productivity further

Radan Computational’s Radan 8.5 sheet metal working CAD/CAM software has a new user interface to maximise material utilisation and reduce cycle times. Radan Computational introduced its Radan 8....

2019-08-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Linear encoders improve machine tool accuracy

Heidenhain has said that machine tools not fitted with linear encoders for positioning may not be accurate enough for the increasingly high performance demands made upon them. At the UK’s MACH 2...

2019-08-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Laser sintering produces tooling inserts

Among plastics and metals powders introduced by EOS for laser sintering, a martensite-hardening steel of high strength and toughness can be used to produce heavy-duty tooling inserts. EOS introduced m...

2019-08-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Vollmer universal machine grinds PCD

Vollmer has introduced a universal tool and cutter grinder that combines eroding, relief grinding, and polishing of PCD tooling using six-axis cutter path interpolation. Vollmer will introduce its QXD...

2019-08-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Time and Money Saved with RP/RT Strategy

Using a variety of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling techniques, 3M was able to bring a new product to market faster and less expensively. 3M is world-renowned for its innovation. With more than 55,...

2019-08-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Automation Is the Bridge Between EDM and Precision Mold Manufacture

The automation route has three key milestones: (1) tooling, (2) palletization and (3) robots, all of which should neatly slot into each other and help govern the speed of change. The increasing pressu...

2019-08-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Value-Added Critical Cleaning of Industrial Molds

If you want to build industrial molds right, you have to clean them right. You have probably put a lot of time and effort into the right design, the right mechanical tools, and the right Q.C. protocol...

2019-08-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Welding Technologies Grabbed Spotlight at K Show

Greater use of electric servo drives and new hybrid systems incorporating multiple joining methods were recurring themes among the latest plastics welding and assembly equipment introduced at the rece...

2019-08-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on What to Do About Weak Weld Lines

Weld or knit lines are perhaps the most common and difficult injection molding defect to eliminate. They occur when melt flow fronts collide in a mold cavity. A poor knit line can cause only cosmetic ...

2019-08-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Bridging the Gap between Prototyping and Final Steel Production Tooling

SL modeling and rapid tooling methods combine to produce durable epoxy injection molds that generate production-quality parts in record time. The benefits of additive technologies for rapid modeling a...

2019-08-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Registration Opens for 2008 TCT, MM Live

Because last year’s TCT event was attended by more than 2,000 visitors, and because strong industry support for the new MM Live exhibition has emerged, the organizer of these co-located trade fa...

2019-08-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Event on Emerging Technologies Is Well Received by GTMA Members

An Emerging Technologies event put on recently by the sponsoring Gauge and Tool Makers Association (GTMA) was a solid success, drawing more than 80 visitors from across the UK. The educational meeting...

2019-08-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on JetCAM Names Dealer for Russian Market

JetCAM International has signed Delcam-Ural, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as a new reseller for its sheet metal and aerospace CAD/CAM software in the Russian market. Delcam-Ural has 15 years of exp...

2019-08-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on DP Tech Will Power Sodick EDMs with Esprit

The computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software developer DP Technology, maker of Esprit CAM software, and Sodick Co. Ltd., a leading builder of electrical discharge machining (EDM) equipment, have si...

2019-08-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on An Innovation on Mould Production by Ninghai Enterprise

For a disabled mould, cover a kind of special material, and further repaired by a laser, it will come into use again. This new technology by Ninghai Shengyuan Laser Technology Co., Ltd has made disabl...

2019-08-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Old exhibition complex of Canton Fair to be decommissioned

An old exhibition hall of the Canton Fair, or China Import and Export Fair, will "retire" in the October session of the biannual event, organizers said on Saturday. Wang Junwen, Canton Fair&...

2019-08-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Automated CNC laser cutter is very flexible

Trumpf showed its compact, flexible TruLaser 2030 CNC 3.2kW sheet material cutting and profiling cell with automated work handling and higly durable laser resonator. Trumpf’s TruLaser 2030 was s...