It’s hard to drill down to the facts these days — on any topic. The surfeit of information precipitated by digital media (read: the internet) has confused and distracted almost everyone from the truth about everything. Manufacturing is no exception. Just mentioning the words off-shoring, re-shoring and automation is to beg an instant argument. But…
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In the late ’80s, visitors to county fairs, amusement parks and other mega-outdoor venues began seeing a new kind of frozen treat which was billed as the evolutionary descendant of ice cream. Marketed as “Dippin’ Dots: The Ice Cream of the Future,” this new “revolutionary” dessert was touted by its founders as a disruptive entry…
Filed Under:Plastic food packaging & beverage packaging
Please don’t be offended by the recent addition of the CONTACT US page that you are redirected to when you click on the link of the Equipment tab of the Advantech Plastic Injection Molding website https:/: If you are in the habit of perusing the internet looking for information, have you noticed that…
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Plastic injection mold manufacturers have a nemesis when it comes to resolving warpage. The culprit is the gap between the conventional assumptions, i.e. guesswork, of mold temperature warpage and actual warpage of parts that occur in real time. Because of advances in software technology, including software simulation packages, trial and error experiments at the production…
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Many people have heard of “living wills.” And everybody knows what a “living room” is. But how many people, outside the plastic injection molding industry, have heard of a “living hinge”? Unlike the aforementioned “living” examples, a living hinge is a thin flexible hinge fabricated from the same material as the two rigid pieces it…
Filed Under:Plastic Caps and Closures
There’s big profit in small plastic medical parts, which is prompting leading medical molders to make big changes of their own. How small are these parts? Try tenths-of-a-millimeter small. This is a quantum leap forward — or downward, if you will — for these plastic injection molders. And the medical devices that they are manufacturing…
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Although Garrison Keillor retired from Prairie Home Companion in 2016, his sardonic tagline lives on: “and that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” While not true for every last plastic injection molder in the US, the “above average” appellation…
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When you think about it, two-shot molding is actually a misnomer. How so? Well, for one thing, this plastic injection molding process utilizes a four-cavity mold, which is mounted on a rotary platen. This allows a 180° rotation of the core side of the mold which positions the first-shot core into alignment with the second…
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Like cats and dogs, the production manager and the maintenance manager constantly feud for machine time in many plastic injection molding plants. Unfortunately, production usually wins because it generates revenue and maintenance is considered overhead. Routine maintenance on molding machines is sacrificed on the altar of profit. Of course, if maintenance is delayed too long… well, you know…
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You water your lawn, you put water in your radiator and you drink water (probably not enough!) Did you know you should water your plastic injection mold, too? Yep, that’s right. If you want to establish true process control in plastic injection, “watering the tool” should be as important a step as coming up with…
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