Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

Tooling

'Failing Faster' as a Winning Product Development Strategy

Sporting-goods OEM Wilson/DeMarini turns to new additive-manufacturing technology to turbocharge product development by blazing through failed iterations to find a winning design more quickly.

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Is Your Shop Farming or Hunting?

Decoupling your company’s R&D and product development from its manufacturing can help keep your new project pipeline full.

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iMFLUX Plots Path to Autonomous Molding

iMFLUX used a virtual event in May to lay out a path to autonomous molding where “the machine is making intelligent decisions on behalf of the operator.”

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Controller-Guided Procedure for Faster Hot-Runner Color Changes

Husky partnered with Chem-Trend to speed hot-runner color changes, pairing a new guided procedure within the Altanium Mold Controller with Chem-Trend’s Ultra Purge brand of purging compound.

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industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 Communication Standard Adds Hot Runners, LSR Dosing

EUROMAP and the OPC Foundation’s joint working group issued a standardized data exchange communication protocol for hot runner devices and liquid silicone rubber dosing systems.

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Automation

Autonomous Bin Picking Streamlines Downstream Operations for Molder

Allied Moulded Products saves labor and floorspace with Universal Robots’ new ActiNav autonomous bin-picking kit.

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Tooling

Virtual Mold Qualifications Become Reality

You might be able to add mold qualifications to the list of things forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how NyproMold responded.

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best practices

Heard of Design for Manufacture…How About Design for Maintenance?

Contract manufacturer Canon Virginia (yes, that Canon) used a webinar to introduce what it calls DFM2— Design for Manufacture and Design for Maintenance.

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Roctool Deployed by Rosti for a More Durable, Paint-Free Enclosure

Rosti turned to Roctool’s induction mold-heating technology to consolidate components in the enclosure and extend its service life.

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best practices

When It Comes to Maintenance Trust Your Nose (and Ears and Eyes)

An ever-growing number of sensors on injection molding machines provide real-time transparency into a press’s inner workings, but the low-tech sensors humans come with are still vital to keeping a plant running.

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plant tour

Total Transparency at Trademark Plastics

Trademark Plastics’ latest investment won’t let it see the future, but by giving it vision inside parts, the new CT scanner represents a more transparent tomorrow for its validation work.

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industry 4.0

Your Factory May Be Smarter, But Is It Less Secure?

A smart factory is a connected one but the same advances that allow you to check in on production remotely could allow others to tie into your plant.

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