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Software Suite Creates Integrated Workflows for Optimizing Moldmaking
Eastec 2025: The HxGN Mould and Die Suite includes VISI, WORNC, NCSIMUL and datanomix tools to provide an integrated workflow from design/engineering to manufacturing and automation.
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How to Achieve Simulation Success, Part 2: Material Characterization
Depending on whether or not your chosen material is in the simulation database — and sometimes even if it is — analysts will have some important choices to make and factors to be aware of. Learn them here.
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How to Achieve Simulation Success, Part 1: Model Accuracy and Mesh Decisions
Molding simulation software is a powerful tool, but what you get out of it depends very much on your initial inputs. Follow these tips to create the most successful simulation possible.
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50 Years...600 Issues...and Still Counting
Matt Naitove marks his first half-century in plastics reporting, with a few of his favorite headlines.
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Injection Molding Simulation Meets the Real World
Direct data interface between molding simulation and the injection machine links the computer model to the real-world process. This can improve results from product and mold design through ongoing production. A case study demonstrates these benefits for automotive components in a family mold.
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Take Time to Save Time: Five Steps in Mold Design to Reduce Back-End Troubleshooting
Westminster Tool shares how the one week it typically takes to perform these five steps in the design phase can save three weeks or more in an overall tool build.
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Foam Molding Simulation Gains Better Bubble-Shrinkage Prediction
Microcellular foam molding simulation improves prediction of cell size and distribution in thin sections, core-back processes.
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Upgraded Simulation Package Adds Nozzle Zone & Conformal Cooling ‘Wizards’
Wizards assist conformal-cooling layout and simulation of melt compression in the nozzle in Moldex3D 2021.
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Injection Molding Networking Software Adds Simulation Support
RJG’s Hub now supports Moldex 3D and Autodesk’s Moldflow/Insight injection molding simulation software.
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Simulating Two-Shot Molding: How Does the First Shot Affect Overall Part Warpage?
Moldex3D simulation can integrate analysis of the first-shot temperature, pressure, and fiber orientation into warpage analysis of the second shot.
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Injection Molding: Store, Manage & Analyze Mold Simulation Data in the Cloud
Moldex3D iSLM helps manage, share and easily analyze large volumes of mold simulation data.
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Injection Molding Simulation Platform Launches
Altair says its Inspire Mold program provides a simulation-driven approach for injection molding design for manufacturing (DFM).
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50 Years of Headlines … Almost
I was lucky to get an early look at many of the past half-century’s exciting developments in plastics. Here’s a selection.
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Try Overflow Wells to Remedy Weld Line Weakness
Molding simulations show that adding an overflow well to a part can mitigate the impact of glass fibers on weld-line weakness.
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Why Put Flow Simulation on an Injection Machine?
This emerging technology sounds promising, but its practical benefits have yet to be demonstrated clearly.
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Scared Straight on Molding Simulation
Molding simulation is such a vital technology today that many molders couldn’t imagine life without it. But as a “consumer” of such a service, you have to know how to carefully critique the simulation results, which can hide a multitude of shortcuts and compromises that threaten their utility.
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Going for the Green vs. Getting in the Hole
Too often when designing a tool or establishing a process, molders go for the hole in one when they only need to aim for the green.
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Is Your TCU Up to the Job? Mold Simulation Can Give the Answer
For realistic results, molding and cooling simulation must reflect the capabilities of the actual TCU to be used. Here’s how simulation can help determine whether your TCU is up to the job.
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