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The Benefits of Early Engineering Involvement in an Automotive Build

MEM

This ensures that the parts selected for use in the prototype phase have been produced with the necessary quality certifications and prevents the requirement for the revalidation of parts when moving from prototype to serial production, thus eliminating the need to re-align the bill of materials as a result.

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Benefits of Early Engineering Involvement in an Automotive Build

MEM

This ensures that the parts selected for use in the prototype phase have been produced with the necessary quality certifications and prevents the requirement for the revalidation of parts when moving from prototype to serial production, thus eliminating the need to re-align the bill of materials as a result.

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5 Ways to Make Your Tooling Assets Smarter

Mold Making Technology

Shops need to move away from being reactive because isn’t it better to get diagnostics in real time before something unexpected happens? At a glance, users get a summary overview of their static assets and real-time assets' current status and KPI breakdown. It is a simple way to qualify a mold without being on site.

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How this Job Shop Grew Capacity Without Expanding Footprint

Modern Machine Shop

Access and build a bill of materials (BOM). With the optimized cutting parameters, they were able to reduce cycle times by 25% while extending tool life. .” They use a product from Siemens called Teamcenter , a PLM software solution that can: Search, find, and reuse product and manufacturing information.

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MoldMaking Technology's Most-Viewed Content 2022: Products

Mold Making Technology

Inserts Improve High-Feed Milling Performance in Exotic Materials. End-to-End Conformal Cooling Design, Production for Faster Cycle Times, Boosted Part Quality. Created with Polyshot’s Plate Fusion technology, the company says it is able to reduce cooling times in injection molds by as much as 60%.

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Five advances in motion control, communications, design to ease automation use

Control Engineering

Users input key parameters, such as mass, stroke/travel distance and cycle time. The tool identifies in real time the combination of components most effective for the application’s parameters. Electric Motion Sizing compresses hours of work to a few minutes.

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PTXPO 2023 Preview: Advancing the Mold With Featured Mold Component, Hot Runner Technology

Mold Making Technology

Mastip cold decks are optimized to shorten cycle times while producing high-quality parts. Users are also able to download the CAD drawing of the configured mold, review the bill of materials, generate a quote and save all of this information to access later.