Molds & Tooling

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Benchmarking Simulation Software: How One Molder Did It

Injection mold simulation has become a standard tool for molders and mold designers.

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Mold Simulation

Do Flow Simulation 'in the Cloud'

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.

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Carr Lane CEO Earl Walker Passes Away at 91

Worked full-time until a week before he died.

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Mold Maintenance Training Eases Molder's Growing Pains

Automation Plastics in Aurora, Ohio (automationplastics.com), is a 32-year-old custom injection molder with 50,500 ft² and 30 presses from 35 to 700 tons.

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Mold Simulation

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do Flow Simulation ‘in the Cloud’

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.

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Novel Molds & Machinery for Medical Molding

The combined MD&M East and Plastec East shows in N.Y.C. in June presented intriguing developments for medical injection molders.

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Thermoforming

Optimize Plug Shape for Thermoforming

Software will adjust the shape to provide more uniform material thickness in the formed part

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Mold Maintenance

The Tools of Tool Maintenance

The root cause of many mold and part issues are ultimately determined by the ability to measure something within one or two tenths of a mil. Readings with precision measuring tools can determine whether a tooling component is to be reused, reworked, or scrapped out.

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Mold Filling Simulation: What, When, Why, How

Mold-filling analysis is the right direction to go, but if you want to arrive at your destination—good parts and an efficient process—you’ll need to pay attention to all the details and select an experienced professional to do the analysis.

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Mold Simulation

What’s New in Mold Simulation

Seamless integration with CAD and FEA structural analysis is a common theme among the major software products.

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