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How to Use Scientific Maintenance for More Accurate Mold and Part Troubleshooting

Discover how adopting scientific maintenance approaches helps improve mold lifespan, minimize failures, and optimize production outcomes.  

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What is Scientific Maintenance? Part 2

Part two of this three-part series explains specific data that toolrooms must collect, analyze and use to truly advance to a scientific maintenance culture where you can measure real data and drive decisions.

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What Is Scientific Maintenance? Part 1

Part one of this three-part series explains how to create a scientific maintenance plan based on a toolroom’s current data collection and usage.

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5 Ways to Improve Supply Chain Visibility and Efficiency

Mold builders play an important role in creating smart, connected and transparent supply chains.

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Enhancing Global Manufacturing Visibility: How Digital Moulds Solved SKF's Data Accessibility Challenges

SKF improved global manufacturing visibility and data accessibility through Digital Moulds' cloud-based monitoring system, enhancing real-time machine status tracking.  

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Advancing Moldmaking and Plastics: Trends in 3D Printing, Automation and Sustainability

NPE 2024 showcased the latest trends and technologies in innovation, efficiency and sustainability for moldmakers and molders, featuring advancements in 3D printing, automation, design and virtual reality/augmented reality/artificial intelligence.

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Advancing Mold Design Demo: The Role of VR in Closing the Skills Gap

This Q&A and demo explain how virtual reality training tackles the skills gap by providing immersive, cost-effective learning experiences.            

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MMT Chats: Digitalizing Mold Lifecycle and Process Performance

MMT catches up with Editorial Advisory Board member Bob VanCoillie senior manager of Kenvue’s mold management center of excellence outside of Philadelphia to discuss mold management via tooling digitalization and OEM expectations and opportunities.

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Four Industry 4.0 Tech Adoption Insights from Indiana Plastics Manufacturers

As more plastics manufacturers step into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, insights have emerged about how best to approach the digital transformation journey.

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Use AI, Machine Learning to Take Variability Out of Manufacturing

Variability has always created insurmountable challenges for manufacturers. However, in the last decade, impact has been more painful due to a lack of experienced workforce. By leveraging technological advancements, particularly in AI, manufacturers can gain a transformative competitive advantage in both cost reduction and workforce development.

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Real-Time Production Monitoring as Automation

As an injection molder, Windmill Plastics sought an economical production monitoring system that could help it keep tabs on its shop floor. It’s now selling the “very focused” digital supervisor it created, automating many formerly manual tasks.

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Digital Platform Enables Remote Machine Troubleshooting

GF Machining Solutions’ My rConnect provides a virtual link between a machine and the company’s service and support team, giving live and historical data without the need to travel to a customer’s shop.

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Outlook for Automation in 2024

I want to share an article I found that discusses the reasons manufacturers should adopt automation in 2024 as a strategic response to global uncertainties, reshoring requirements, labor shortages and the pursuit of increased productivity.        

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Integrated RFID Achieves Hot Half Hot Runner System Digitalization

Newly ordered hot halves from Hasco are now equipped with RFID-chipped Mould Tags to enable reliable and direction access to all injection mold unit information.

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How to Use and Protect Remote Machine Monitoring Data

Collecting, analyzing and securing machine data in real time can substantially improve productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction.

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AI Augments Injection Molding Process Control System

MAX, a new process advising feature added to RJG’s Copilot system, is engineered to help troubleshoot and optimize the injection molding process and addresses industry skill gap.

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MMT Chats: Predictable Manufacturing and Incremental Gains Can Transform Moldmaking

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges catches up with the president of Eden Tool and Eden Manufacturing, Dave Tomic. We talk about predictable performance in moldmaking and the value of small incremental gains in an organization versus big change via disruptive technology. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.

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5 Ways to Make Your Tooling Assets Smarter

Global mold monitoring and asset management solutions can maximize productivity and efficiency.

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In-Mold Solution Drives Dynamic Process Optimization, Data Transparency 

The sensXpert platform provides a “customer-centric” approach, enabling moldmakers and plastics processors to measure and monitor temperature and material behavior inside the mold for real-time data and full manufacturing transparency.

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Mold/Die Software Establishes Higher Productivity for Mold Development

Cimatron powers up version 2024 of its CAD/CAM software, providing stronger core capabilities and new tools for advanced moldmaking with an emphasis on automation, simplified UX, productivity, process management and digital connectivity.  

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CAM Automation Increases Mold Production, Quality

Mold builder switches CAM software package after 20 years to take advantage of innovative programming strategies that reduce mold machining programming and processing times.

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VIDEO: Perspective on A.I. and Mold Design

Bill Genc of TopSolid shares his perspective on the benefits of and barriers to using artificial intelligence in mold design.

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TopSolid Acquires Weviz, Launches TopSolid'Virtual Tool

A collaborative 3D visualization software solution based on Weviz, the TopSolid’Virtual tool is adapted to expand real-time imaging and virtual reality opportunities across CAD/CAM teams and other departments.

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What is Driving Mold Lifecycle Management Digitalization?

OEMs are looking to partner with suppliers to share and track data across the supply chain for advanced intervention and process management.  

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