Manufacturing plastic injection molds is unusual among the various CNC machining market segments because of the competitive pressures: Mold shop owners have to be ready to take on various jobs that ...

Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

Injection molding machines are able to form very detailed plastic parts, simply by squirting plastic into a mold. 3D printers squirt plastic. Why no one thought of using a 3D printer extruder to push ...

AI optimizes injection molding beyond human understanding, creating new challenges for process control and failure recovery.

Addman Advanced Metals has scaled from a single 3D printer to 25 while also building out a robust array of subtractive machines. In this video, find out how the shop manages its additive and ...

Like machine tools before them, injection-molding machines started going electric more than a decade ago as some of their builders jumped at the chance to improve energy efficiency, repeatability, ...

And Mold Wizard from EDS PLM Solutions (www.eds.com) provides a series of process-based wizards, knowledge-embedded models, alternative modeling methods, and collaborative engineering tools to quickly ...

Addman Advanced Metals has scaled from a single 3D printer to 25 while also building out a robust array of subtractive machines. In this video, find out how the shop manages its additive and ...