Mold Making Technology

MAY 27, 2025

As tooling wears over time, the depth and sharpness of an etched finish will inevitably degrade. FIG 2 — Finer textures become more difficult to distinguish by comparison methods. This trend echoes a similar shift which occurred in metals machining over the last several decades. Figure 2 shows three textures from Figure 1.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 30, 2025

” With just two people and a clear vision, NS Precision partnered with Methods Machine Tools to build a lights-out operation capable of running 100+ automated machining hours per week. ” The Methods Plus-K60 Automation System is added to a medium bed FANUC RoboDrill. “Too small for automation?”

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Mold Making Technology

JULY 4, 2023

Photo Credit: Next Chapter Manufacturing MoldMaking Technology ’s online database offers more than 1,000 manufacturers, distributors and suppliers for more than 200 product and service categories that you employ daily. Paul, MN, 651-289-9700 Mazak North America — Florence, KY, 859-342-1700 Methods 3D Inc. — St. .

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 25, 2023

This indicates that while a micro molder needs to have skin in the game in each aspect of product development from design to automated assembly, working with a micro molder that has a real sense of the importance of quality assurance and validation, and has the tools in-house to undertake such validation, is super critical. Data collection.

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Mold Making Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mayer Tool & Engineering (MTE) specializes in designing and building quality injection molds for the plastics industry. Photos Credit, all images: Mayer Tool & Engineering Inc. What is Mayer Tool & Engineering, and what is your chief competitive advantage? Mayer Tool & Engineering Inc.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 15, 2024

The AUSTECH Machine Tool Zone , specifically targeted at the metalworking, machine tool and ancillary market. It also involves the study of several methods in which plastics can be utilised for use in human life. The Additive Manufacturing Zone will showcase the most advanced technologies within this sector.

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AU Manufacturing

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Fujimi Inkjet Innovation Lab is equipped with inkjet machine for R&D mounted with these printheads, as well as a battery of other machines, instruments, and tools for running trial production and evaluations.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 25, 2023

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools Methods Machine Tools , a supplier of high-quality, high-precision CNC machine tools, automation and engineering services, will host Machine Fest on October 4-5 at its national headquarters. Machine Fest will run from 9 a.m.

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DO Supply

MAY 23, 2025

Designed to meet the demanding requirements of sectors such as mining, petrochemical, food processing, and machine tools, the SMC Plus provides optimal performance in various environmental conditions. Here at DO Supply, we strive to be your SMC Plus supplier.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

If you purchase this ⅜-inch bolt from a mold-component supplier, the thread will be ⅚-18 UNC, not ⅜-16 UNC. However, some suppliers have length variation as much as 0.020 inches. Several mold-component suppliers don’t even specify this tolerance. You specify a shoulder bolt by its shoulder diameter and shoulder length.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 13, 2025

Star SU, the marketing, sales and service affiliate of Star Cutter Company, announces its partnership with the REGO-FIX Center for Machining Excellence (CME), to promote its growing capabilities with the Louis Belet line of Swiss cutting tools. mm), said Tim Murdock, Key Account Manager. mm), said Tim Murdock, Key Account Manager.

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Modern Machine Shop

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools Inc. Methods Machine Tools , a supplier of high-quality, high-precision CNC machine tools, automation and engineering services in North America has moved its California office from Anaheim to a new location in Corona, California.

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Control Engineering

JULY 19, 2022

Many advanced tools can be managed on a tablet or smartphone and users can tailor them to fit the company’s specific needs. A hierarchy approach of engineering and administrative controls is used to guide the most effective methods for protecting workers. . Courtesy: AutomationDirect. Substitution of the hazard to decrease risk.

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Modern Machine Shop

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools Methods Machine Tools , a supplier of CNC machine tools, automation and engineering services, will host Machine Fest from March 8-9, 2023 at its Gilberts, Illinois, location. Machine Fest, which is free to attend, will run from 9 a.m.

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Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools. Methods Machine Tools , a leading supplier of high-quality, high-precision CNC machine tools, automation and engineering services welcomes William “Bill” Keim as its new general manager for Texas and Louisiana.

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Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, proper use, tool assembly and maintenance can minimize these effects. This is important because, according to REGO-FIX marketing specialist Jonathan Harvey, the collet, not the toolholder, plays the bigger role in machining accurate parts. These forces are almost certain to crack the tool holder, damage the collet, or both.

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Modern Machine Shop

AUGUST 13, 2023

Photo Credit: Methods Machine Tools Inc. Methods Machine Tools Inc. , a supplier of leading precision machine tools and automation solutions, announces that its board of directors has appointed Richard Alton as its chief executive officer, effective immediately.

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Modern Machine Shop

MAY 30, 2024

In February 2023, New Dimensions Precision Machining was in search of a solution to help streamline manufacturing of hydraulic control valves. All World engineers designed an Arrow workholding fixture to integrate with a FANUC robot which loads and unloads the machining fixture.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

SUPPLIER PROFILE EcoCut is a multifunction tool for drilling and turning with a broad range of machining applications. Schaumburg, IL) may just be the hidden tooling innovations gem the U.S. CERATIZIT is a high-tech engineering group that specializes in tooling and hard metal technologies. CERATIZIT USA Inc.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 6, 2023

When it comes to welding, many customers are looking for suppliers that make them more productive and bring them on the journey to understand the new technologies and solutions available to achieve smarter, safer and more efficient welding. We needed a supplier we were comfortable with.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The 6M method helps you determine what those might be. When faced with a problem, rather than jumping to conclusions, what’s needed is a systematic method of getting to the root cause. Fishbone diagrams, also known as cause and effect diagrams, or the Ishikawa technique, are such a method.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

WILA’s state-of-the-art clamping and crowning systems offer the ultimate solution when it comes to efficiently changing tools, whether hydraulic, mechanical or pneumatic. The company isn’t looking to sell fabricators on every press brake tool that exists — WILA wants to prevent tooling just sitting unused at a shop.

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Mold Making Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In 2010, a customer transferred an injection mold for a quick-snap hose connector to Accudyn when another supplier could no longer support its needs. This accurate and noncontact method enables quick and efficient inspection, capturing intricate details that traditional measuring tools would struggle to capture.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 5, 2023

“Production methods for processing titanium need to be fast and minimise waste to be considered economical, and here PCE comes into its own,” said Jochen Kern , head of sales and marketing at the micrometal Etching Group. Titanium has high strength, low thermal conductivity, and high-temperature reactivity with some tool materials.

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Additive Manufacturing

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The EDN partner program streamlines services and tools to allow Sigma to expand its software offering via the EOS digital thread from data preparation, machine management, process data acquisition, and reporting. This enables Sigma to provide software and analytics applications from EOS application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 9, 2024

As its business has expanded over the past decade, so has its tooling inventory — it has more than 10,000 different component types. Every aspect of the machining process matters, from programming to machining cycle time to measurement. . The new system has freed up enough space for two additional CNC machines.

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Mold Making Technology

MAY 2, 2023

Initially, that involved 3D printing metal tool components, details and geometries that would otherwise need to be EDM’d. That led to many aerospace companies knocking on Linear’s door, asking to observe the machine running, since the only other company with an EOS metal additive printer was another aerospace competitor.

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iBASEt

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Digital tools provide better tracking and reduce the likelihood of human error. Transitioning from familiar paper methods to digital tools is a big step but very manageable, especially if you work with vendors that have a lot of experience. While it’s only the first step on the journey, MES improves your business in many ways.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 3, 2024

Machines have improved and material options have widened. At NPE 2024: The Plastics Show , 3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) suppliers will be highlighted in the Advanced Manufacturing Zone , while AM users will take to the stage for Wednesday’s 3D Printing Workshop.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2023

Industry suppliers continue to respond to those needs by developing the next iterations of cobots, robots, automated in-process inspection systems, digital transformation — the list goes on. ANCA’s (Wixom, MI) AIMS (ANCA Integrated Manufacturing System) solution considers the factory as a single machine.

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AU Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In addition, one huge advantage of AM as a production tool — namely its ability to manufacture highly complex geometries — can make smoothing and polishing extremely difficult. Through a judicious combination of different machine technologies and different media, mass finishing can achieve these goals. QUESTIONS FOR SUPPLIERS.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 2, 2023

What should a machining job shop do first? Grady Cope, CEO of Reata Engineering and Machine Works in Englewood, Colorado, has an answer: start with the customer. Furthering The Digital Automation Journey Reata Engineering was formed in 1993 with the purchase of a used mill and a lathe, both manual machines. But where to begin?

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Dinesh Mishra

AUGUST 8, 2022

With rich visualization technologies, analytics and development tools deployed within a hybrid cloud and on-premises environment, customers can ensure performance consistency, remove opportunity for human error, and improve operator insight and reactions to process deviations. Learn more at www.aveva.com.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 18, 2025

Source | Globeius Plastic solutions supplier Globeius and its new acquisition Plastixs are both celebrating anniversaries while highlighting their latest technologies together in the U.S. Two Globeius offerings include the Mouldpro mold splitter tables and molding part separator trials using Crizaf demo machines.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 21, 2023

Modern bending machines are often automated and equipped with robots. If, for example, the minimum flange length is not reached and the marked error leg is too short depending on the bending angle, sheet thickness, material and tool pairing, then the leg cannot be bent. Photo source: TRUMPF GROUP.)

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 28, 2023

Close up of machine showcasing Sandvik Coromant’s GC1130 solution in action. Power skiving has emerged as an innovative machining method for the production of high-quality gears with complex geometries. Power skiving has emerged as an innovative machining method for the production of high-quality gears with complex geometries.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early computing, like Computer Numerical Control (CNC), aimed to enhance machining quality and productivity. Beginning with CNC machining in the 1950s and 60s, industrial automation took its first strides with computing. Beginning with CNC machining in the 1950s and 60s, industrial automation took its first strides with computing.

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