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Optimized Pressure Control for a More Repeatable Process and Parts
New software from Arburg automatically determines the ideal ramp of the injection-to-hold profile.
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Succession Planning Breeds Success
One of the most important ´óÏó´«Ã½ decisions leaders can make and plan for is how they’ll exit the ´óÏó´«Ã½.
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Supply Chain Woes Meet the Cocktail-Party-Topic Threshold
When a topic can serve as an easy conversation starter at a mixed, social event, you know it’s truly entered the “national consciousness.”
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Matrix Tool Wins Inaugural Hot Shots Competition
The Pennsylvania-based injection molder and moldmaker applied its tooling know how and Sodick injection technology to take home both Hot Shots prizes.
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Top Shops: Benchmarking Injection Molding in a Pandemic Year
At the start of 2021, as it does every year, Plastics Technology asked injection molders to look back on the year prior and take stock of their operations. The only difference this time: COVID-19.
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Tiny Part Showcases Big Molding, Moldmaking Capabilities
Grab a magnifying glass and check out this entrant in Molding 2021’s Hot Shots injection molded part competition.
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New Test Method Analyzes Gas Formation in Molding
Resin maker Polyplastics says the proprietary method captures and evaluates gases formed during injection molding.
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With AI: Trust But Verify
A growing number view AI not as “artificial intelligence”, wholly supplanting the human with computing power, but rather as “augmented intelligence”, working alongside a person’s mind to its betterment not replacement.
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High-Temperature Cycle Counters
Hasco’s new mechanical cycle counters can be used at temperatures of up to 200 C (392 F).
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'Failing Faster' as a Winning Product Development Strategy
Sporting-goods OEM Wilson/DeMarini turns to new additive-manufacturing technology to turbocharge product development by blazing through failed iterations to find a winning design more quickly.
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Is Your Shop Farming or Hunting?
Decoupling your company’s R&D and product development from its manufacturing can help keep your new project pipeline full.
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iMFLUX Plots Path to Autonomous Molding
iMFLUX used a virtual event in May to lay out a path to autonomous molding where “the machine is making intelligent decisions on behalf of the operator.”
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