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Collaborative Engineering Drives Quality Mold Solutions

Mold Making Technology

This team is involved in the design, development and maintenance of high-precision molds, including multi-cavity and complex molds used in various industries such as automotive, medical and consumer goods. We produce some highly complex molds requiring insert molding and over molding.

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Tiflex’s Implementation of AXYZ and WARDJET Tailored Cutting Solutions

MEM

Over time, the scope expanded to include cutting large volumes of plastic sheets as well. Although the routers were occasionally employed for cutting small metal parts or moulds for internal use, this was not their primary function. The routers allowed the company to cut parts much quicker than traditional moulding methods.

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

For instance, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan shut down electronics factories, and 2017’s Hurricane Harvey disrupted US oil refineries and petrochemical plants, ultimately leading to shortages of some plastics and resins critical to different industries. Service levels are five to 20 percentage points higher.

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Job Shop vs. Flow Shop in Manufacturing

ATS

In practice, this approach means that production machinery is organized by function rather than in a linear sequence, allowing products to move through machines as needed rather than following a set path. Flow shops excel at low-mix, high-volume production, and large order volumes that require items identical in form and function.

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Additive manufacturing: trends and opportunities

Manufacturer's Monthly

And consumer goods companies have leveraged AM to offer unique and customisable products, differentiating themselves in crowded marketplaces. The result is an increase in structural integrity and quicker assembly times. This technique is commonly employed to produce intricate models, functional parts, and detailed prototypes.

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CAD/CAM Software Reduces Delivery Times by 70% With a Six-Month ROI

Mold Making Technology

Most mold customers hail from the automotive and consumer goods markets, but the company also makes tooling for the aerospace and medical segments. Most molded products are for consumer goods customers. This has paid off by shortening tool delivery lead times and increasing shop productivity.

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Automated Grinding Machines Yield Tighter Tolerances and Save Resources

Mold Making Technology

The company supplies mold and die customers with both raw and highly processed holder plates and also functions as a one-stop-shop source for mold base steel needs. On the mold base side, National services customers within industries such as medical, consumer goods, automotive, packaging and pharmaceuticals.