While it might sound dumb, the mold will determine the cycle and the quality of the parts. The mold should accomplish two things: First, it's a hole we fill with plastic. This determines the shape of ...

Rotating stack molds give designers a variety of options for not only molding multicomponent parts but also doing secondary assembly operations inside the injection molding machine. ''What will it ...

To visualize how design elements affect a casting's tolerances, consider a simple enclosure lid. To visualize how design elements affect a casting's tolerances, consider a simple enclosure lid. For ...

The simultaneous design of plastic parts and the injection molds that make them may speed product development cycles. But concurrent engineering doesn't come easy since it forces engineers to grapple ...

Want to know how well your parting lines align in your mold? Mold-Align, developed by Sensor Products Inc. in Madison, NJ, is a thin sensor film that can quickly reveal pressure distribution along the ...