September 2008 Issue
September 2008
Features
Featured articles from the September 2008 issue of MoldMaking Technology
Simplify Mold Design with Robotic Automation
Six-axis jointed robots can offer significant cost savings during mold design and manufacture, as well as during production.
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Complex Molds Mean Business for High-Tech Toolmakers
Focus on cavitation and advanced product design gives progressive mold shops a jump on competitors.
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Registered Growth Expected Later in Year 47.5 Total Mold Business Index for July 2008
The total Mold Business Index is a weighted average of the sub-indices for new orders, production, employees, backlog, exports and supplier deliveries.
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How to Better Your Machine Tool ROI
The justification of purchasing a new machine tool is becoming more and more difficult, particularly with today’s technology and global competitive economy. Return on investment (ROI) strategies based on past inefficient manufacturing performance does not represent today’s machine tool technologies. With competitive pressures the way they are, exotic materials and more complex designs, manufacturers need to be smarter, leaner and more profitable. Above all, the challenge of maintaining your competitive edge and generating the fastest possible return of your investment is crucial.
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Tech Mold Inc.: A Constant State of Flux
Embracing change and continuous evolution—in conjunction with fine-tuning its specialty over the years—is this moldmaker’s formula for long-term success.
Read MoreNever Say Never
If I think back a few decades, NC machines—the Neanderthal ancestor of CNC—were ignored for tooling applications or one/off prototypes.
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CAM for Hard Milling
A brief overview of some of the CAM requirements, challenges and strategies for successful hard milling.
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Validation of Design Guidelines
Flow simulation software integrated with powerful 3-D CAD functionality can be effectively and efficiently applied to validate guidelines for cooling time and runner sizing.
Read MoreChina’s Shifting Fortunes
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing were seen as China’s maturation as a culture, an economy and a global power. They also mark a crossroad for China. Nixon’s historic visit in 1972 set in motion events that would change—and are changing—our world. And not much has changed more in the past 30 years than manufacturing. But, this type of change is never without its challenges, and China is finding itself at a stage of maturity where its trajectory toward manufacturing/economic dominance is slowing down a bit.
Read MoreIt’s Worth the Time!
What if I told you that at your fingertips is an opportunity to get a free advertising program in Plastics Technology magazine to market your products and services.
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