MMT's October Digital Edition Is Now Available
Check out five tips from this month's features on cutting tools, hot runner technology, data management, mold components and mold maintenance and repair.
's October Digital editionMoldMaking Technology features stories on why low runout is the key to accurate, strong, rigid, vibration-free toolholding; the value of examining a cutting tool’s performance values, not just its cost to uncover the true efficiency of your machining processes; how to eliminate hesitation marks with multi-speed hydraulic technology; the reasons to use ultrasonic cleaning for mold maintenance; and, a moldmaker that uses data collection to ride the wave to the next industrial revolution.
This month's cover is courtesy of Rego-Fix. It highlights the powRgrip high precision toolholding systems that provide a runout “sweet spot” of only 3 microns, allowing mold shops to not only boost speeds and feeds/metal removal rates, but also increase tool life.
reat tips from this issue:Five g
1 The indexability of cutting tools has costs associated with each insert rotation that must be considered. A shop cannot simply calculate the cost per cutting tool.
2 Magnetostrictive transducers are appropriate for heavy-duty industrial applications that require higher operating temperatures, longer cycle times and more aggressive cleaning chemistries.
3 Industry 4.0 requires consistently collecting and measuring data using sensors and monitors and then applying those metrics to adapt in real-time to what’s happening on the production floor.
4 Cleaning an area to be welded, and carefully grinding out burrs and rough areas is an essential part of welding. Anything problematic to the welding process needs to be removed.
5 To better ejector plate alignment consider an alignment bar and wear pad in your next ejector plate alignment system in which the wear pad is one-piece and accurately fits with the alignment bar.
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