Mold Maintenance
Cleaner Combines Dry Ice Pellet Production and Dry Ice Blasting
Cold Jet says that the Combi 120H eliminates the need for cleaning parts with aqueous methods that require part drying and water treatment or containment systems.
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Hot Runners & Tooling at NPE2018: Smarter & More Specialized
Hot-runner technology, like the companies utilizing it, is becoming highly specialized, building in focused functionality for the application to be molded. Like most of the equipment in the cell around it, it’s also becoming smarter, sharing data and reacting to feedback from the press and more.
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High Tech Laser & Polishing Purchases Large 4-axis Laser
The technology will expand the company's laser engraving and laser texturing capabilities.
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Tool Mover Improves Safety with Secure Movement of Heavy Molds
RUD Chain Inc. says that its RUD Tool-Mover moves heavy and sensitive dies, molds and tools safely and securely and therefore limits costs that damaged tools incur and improves safety for the operator.
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Tooling: Hot Sprues—Mold a Disk or Not?
Having a hot sprue shut off against the parting line versus intentionally molding a thin disk has been the subject of controversy for many years.
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How Sprue Pullers Help Prevent Molding Issues: Part 2
A vital secondary function of sprue pullers is to act as a cold well to trap solidified material left in the machine-nozzle tip.
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Tooling: Dealing with Sprue Bushings On the Production Floor
Causes of and solutions to some problems you probably deal with every day.
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Seeking Moldmakers That Are Fast…and Smart
Now in its 15th year, MoldMaking Technology’s Leadtime Leader Award is once again seeking out tool shops that get things done.
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Mold Performance: Tap Into the Power of Data Collection
Collecting core data in a transparent way allows molders to drill into the true cost of tooling issues and develop real goals to keep production flowing.
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How Serious Is Freudenberg Medical About Lean Manufacturing?
One employee I met there helped his daughter undertake a Kaizen event on her closet.
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