best practices
‘Intelligent’ Cooling Helps Molder Improve Productivity, Profitability & Quality
Cost-effective and user-friendly process-cooling system gives custom molder the ability to do more with less.
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Inline Inkjet Printer Keeps Pace With Speedy Wire & Cable Processor
Huber+Suhner is outfitting its six high-speed extrusion lines with new high-speed, continuous inkjet printers.
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Rapid Heat & Cool Molding Evolves to Meet Industry Challenges
Technical capabilities of the process have advanced to erase former cycle-time penalties, and ongoing developments address creation of a materials database and new applications in hybrid composite injection overmolding.
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The One Company Solution
Primex has vertically integrated its color compounding, sheet extrusion, and fabrication ´óÏó´«Ã½es to provide a single-source solution to customers in a wide range of industries.
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Tooling: Clamp Pressure & Cavity Land Area, Part 2
What you need to know to prevent flashing and mold damage.
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Extrusion: A Simple Way to Evaluate Extruder Screws
While there’s lots of data that influences screw design, processors usually don’t have access to it. So instead, try calculating drag flow to see if your screw is working properly.
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Injection Molding: Process Documentation Is Crucial to Making ‘Identical’ Parts
Use a machine/mold setup sheet to document plastic parameters and use them on any acceptable machine into which the mold is placed.
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Automate Injection Molding Simulation With Autonomous Optimization
Simulation not only predicts how a mold will fill, but also provides guidance to make it fill better. The new technology of Autonomous Optimization automatically performs hundreds or thousands of simulations, testing multiple variables—gating, venting and cooling, for example—and learning which combinations help achieve objectives for injection pressure, cycle time, warpage, etc.
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Improving Molding Process Capability: Understanding the PVT Graph, Part 1
Process capability is related to the variation in part dimensions from shot to shot. High values of process capability require the shrinkage of the material to be identical on each shot, which can be confirmed from the pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) graph.
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‘Follow the Plan’ When Installing and Commissioning Compounding Lines
A fully operational and documented system doesn’t happen by chance. An efficient, well-designed installation plan, prepared well in advance, will put you on the path to maintaining a timeline and budget.
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