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How to Manage Wall Thickness Changes in Your Mold Design
To ensure even filling and cooling, consider wall section transitions, corners and fillets, ribs and bosses, lip and rim designs and CAE flow simulation software.
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Predictive Manufacturing Moves Mold Builder into Advanced Medical Component Manufacturing
From a hot rod hobby, medical molds and shop performance to technology extremes, key relationships and a growth strategy, it’s obvious details matter at Eden Tool.
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Surface Finish: Understanding Mold Surface Lingo
The correlation between the units of measure used to define mold surfaces is a commonly raised question. This article will lay these units of measure side by side in a conversion format so that companies can confidently understand with what they are dealing.
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Software Package for Portal Roughness Gages Streamlines Surface Data Interfacing
Digital Metrology Solutions offers mold builders a fast, affordable way to better understanding of surface data with the TraceBoss software package.
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MMT Chats: 5 in 5 with Best Tool and Engineering
MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges reveals 5 best practices for improving efficiencies within shops...in 5 minutes. Our guest is Joe Cherluck, President of Best Tool and Engineering in Clinton Township, Michigan. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR.
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Reimagining Moldmaking with Technology
A look at some of the technology mold builders have expressed a growing interest in and are now actively investigating, including advancements in mold design, 3D printing, automation, machining, inspection and repair.
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Quickly Troubleshoot New Molding Defect with Moldfilling Software
SyBridge Technologies analyst compares original, new Moldflow process simulation results, solves molding defect without tool needing to be taken out of production.
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Evaluating Metal Powders for Conformally Cooled Mold Inserts
Mechanical properties and design software techniques reveal the benefits of a modified high thermal conductivity metal powder for 3D printing in moldmaking.
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Smart Machine Monitoring Guides Management Decisions
The Freeman Company invested in FactoryWiz Machine Monitoring technology to enhance its processes.
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Portable Laser Tracker Offers High-Speed Measurement
The Leica Absolute Tracker offers high-speed dynamic measurement and is said to be a complete solution for six degrees of freedom (6DoF) probing, scanning and automated inspection as well as reflector measurement.
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