Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

Tooling

Virtual Mold Qualifications Become Reality

You might be able to add mold qualifications to the list of things forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how NyproMold responded.

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Mold Maintenance

Heard of Design for Manufacture…How About Design for Maintenance?

Contract manufacturer Canon Virginia (yes, that Canon) used a webinar to introduce what it calls DFM2— Design for Manufacture and Design for Maintenance.

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Roctool Deployed by Rosti for a More Durable, Paint-Free Enclosure

Rosti turned to Roctool’s induction mold-heating technology to consolidate components in the enclosure and extend its service life.

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best practices

When It Comes to Maintenance Trust Your Nose (and Ears and Eyes)

An ever-growing number of sensors on injection molding machines provide real-time transparency into a press’s inner workings, but the low-tech sensors humans come with are still vital to keeping a plant running.

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plant tour

Total Transparency at Trademark Plastics

Trademark Plastics’ latest investment won’t let it see the future, but by giving it vision inside parts, the new CT scanner represents a more transparent tomorrow for its validation work.

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industry 4.0

Your Factory May Be Smarter, But Is It Less Secure?

A smart factory is a connected one but the same advances that allow you to check in on production remotely could allow others to tie into your plant.

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Tooling

Weak Links in the Supply Chain

From pandemic shutdowns to blocked shipping canals, overseas sourcing headaches are forcing many OEMs to rethink far-flung supply chains, particularly when it comes to tooling.

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Medical

Growing Through the Pandemic

Westec Plastics is just one example of an injection molder that actually expanded in 2020 despite the 大象传媒 and logistical challenges of the pandemic.

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industry 4.0

New Technology Adoption as a Business Strategy

As a company, is your adoption of new technology passive and by accident or strategic and planned?

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ERP Platform Keeps Molders Connected in the Pandemic

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software offers its users many tools and modules with manufacturing and plastics specific platforms like DELMIAworks touching everything from inventory and quality to bookkeeping and process and machine monitoring. 

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Slowed—but not Stopped—by the Pandemic, Custom Molder Catches Up with Its Plans for Growth

No one’s 2020 plans survived the pandemic unscathed, including those of Plastic Molding Technology Inc. But this injection molder’s vision of how it would continue to thrive as it approaches its fifth decade was simply deferred, not denied.

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Automation

New Player, Different Approach to Automation

Rapid Robotics is a new automation supplier that offers manufacturers an affordable rental model for “ready-to-work robotic machine operators.”

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Plastics Size Reduction
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