Heating & Cooling
What Thermal Imaging Can Do for Your Molding Process
It can aid in process development, production monitoring, and troubleshooting. Here’s one molder’s primer on the subject.
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Conformal Cooling Helps Get Heat Out and Cycle Time Down
Conformally cooled sprue bushings help automotive molder reduce cycle times and injection pressures for a high-volume component.
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Advanced TCU Controls Both Temperature & Flow Rate
Unlike most TCUs, which control only water temperature, Nextherm controls both temperature and flow rate by means of a positive-displacement gear pump with a variable-frequency drive (VFD).
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New TCU Ready for Industry 4.0
Easytherm incorporates the OPC-UA communication protocol, making it ready for communication with machines from different suppliers.
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Automated Mold-Insert Changing Via Robot for Short Runs
At Fakuma 2018 show in Germany, Engel Austria (U.S. office in York, Pa.) is presenting three premieres in one exhibit.
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Electronic Flow Monitoring Gives Medical Molder a Better Handle on Mold Cooling
Monitoring water flow and temperature in individual channels proves a valuable tool for process validation and troubleshooting.
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An Engineering Approach to Mold-Cooling Circuit Design
The Energy Density vs. ΔT/in. relationship is an important step forward in pursuit of a science-based approach to cooling-circuit design. Here’s why.
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‘Intelligent’ Cooling Helps Molder Improve Productivity, Profitability & Quality
Cost-effective and user-friendly process-cooling system gives custom molder the ability to do more with less.
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Rapid Heat & Cool Molding Evolves to Meet Industry Challenges
Technical capabilities of the process have advanced to erase former cycle-time penalties, and ongoing developments address creation of a materials database and new applications in hybrid composite injection overmolding.
Read MoreThermal Care Brings Industry 4.0 to Process Cooling
Improved PLC control capabilities and the introduction of a new Industry 4.0 inspired software platform are among the highlights of Thermal Care’s NPE2018 booth (W3163).
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