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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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Controller-Guided Procedure for Faster Hot-Runner Color Changes
Husky partnered with Chem-Trend to speed hot-runner color changes, pairing a new guided procedure within the Altanium Mold Controller with Chem-Trend’s Ultra Purge brand of purging compound.
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Industry 4.0 Communication Standard Adds Hot Runners, LSR Dosing
EUROMAP and the OPC Foundation’s joint working group issued a standardized data exchange communication protocol for hot runner devices and liquid silicone rubber dosing systems.
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Autonomous Bin Picking Streamlines Downstream Operations for Molder
Allied Moulded Products saves labor and floorspace with Universal Robots’ new ActiNav autonomous bin-picking kit.
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