Quality control has moved out of the ‘end of the line' zone in today's manufacturing world. It's woven into the process.

Engineers must accurately predict thermal stabilization and calibrate simulation software to achieve consistent quality in ...

Molding operations are highly dependent on productivity, efficiency, down time, and scrap levels. Failure in any of these categories can be catastrophic. One of the most critical procedures in any ...

Mold making pioneer reports significant time and cost efficiencies utilizing this approach for low volume production, enabling molders to quickly change inserts for different products MINNEAPOLIS & ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. A survey conducted by ENGEL among its customers clearly shows the massive time-saving potential of mold set-up. 73 ...

Italy-based Smart Mold, a spin-off of the University of Padova and part of Sirmax Group that specializes in optimizing the plastic injection molding process, will present a new product at PLAST 2026 ...

Xometry's expanded materials catalog now supports auto-quoting for glass-filled Nylon, PBT, PC-PBT, PLA, PPE-PS, and PSUXometry's free on-demand DFM consultations can now be scheduled on the platform, ...

Recently [Stefan] of CNC Kitchen took a gander at using his gaggle of 3D printers to try injection molding (IM). Although the IM process generally requires metal molds and specialized machinery, 3D ...

The two most common methods of cooler manufacturing are rotomolding (rotational molding) or injection molding. Rotomolded coolers are considered to be more durable, with a lower likelihood of cracks ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...