MMT ARTICLE ARCHIVE
Feature Articles
Color Matching for Mold Weld Repair
Experience and careful attention to detail are the key requirements to a predictable and consistent color match.
Apply Your Moldmaking Know-How to Aerospace WorkIf you are looking to diversify the jobs you machine and venture into the aerospace market many of the toolpaths and cutting techniques can be used with some modifications.
How Moldmakers Can Reduce Production Costs and Maintain PrecisionUsing a mold base quick-change/hot runner combination in your mold designs can result in flexible, interchangeable precision.
Understanding Customer ExpectationsAn informal survey reveals what OEMS are looking for in their tooling vendors.
Simple Strategies for Providing Value-Add to Your CustomersFive technology solutions to consider that have advantages for both the mold manufacturer and its customers.
Case Study
Simulation Software Streamlines Mold Design, Manufacture and Molding
Case Study: Software
Internally Heated Hot Runner Nozzles: Leak-Free Performance for More Profitable ProductionCase Study, Hot Runners, Packaging
Beyond Mold Building and Repair: A Strategy for Increasing RevenueAlthough all mold building companies perform mold repair, few form a strategy to actually promote and provide mold maintenance to customers as a plan for growth.
Tip of the Month
Five Ways to Bridge the Skills Gap
As the U.S. moldmaking industry continues toward economic recovery, finding the right worker for the job is a huge concern. In the past, entry-level machinists could be hired with little experience; yet today’s computerized machines and higher levels of automation demand a deeper skill set, even for beginners.
Product Focus
Milling Solution
JetSleeve
Rotary Axes Alignment/PositioningCheck-Up
Solic Carbide Drill Line ExpansionWalter Titex X-treme expansion
Cutting Heads for Economical MillingCoroMill 316
From The Editor
A Better Future Will Be Built with Better Information
More information at a faster speed, the Mold Business Index is a giant step in raising your level of market intelligence.
Mold Business Index
Business Levels Steady-to-Higher
Total Mold Business Index for September 2011: 51.2
Profile
Diverse Mold Offerings Sustain Moldmaker, Secures Future Business
Pelco Tool & Mold, Inc. (Glendale Heights, IL)—a producer of close-tolerance, high-quality tools for the closure, food and beverage, personal care, and medical industries—designs and builds a plethora of molds, including, single face and stack, rotating ratchet ring (RRR), conventional unscrewing, strip, side-action, collapsible core, compression, front-loaded core, insert and prototype.
New Business Opportunities
Get Out and Stay Out
Here’s a classic water-cooler joke for you: BOSS: Get any orders on your customer visit today? SALES REP: Sure, I got two orders! “Get out” and “stay out.”
Your Business
Five Important Tax Changes Beneficial to Your Shop
On December 17, 2010 President Obama signed The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (2010 Tax Relief Act) that includes important depreciation and IRC Sec. 179 deduction changes, which were retroactive to September 9, 2010 and will benefit both large and small manufacturers.
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