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 ...

Injection molding machine suppliers feature prominently at this month’s PTXPO in Chicago; see what the press makers have planned for their exhibits.

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 ...

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 ...

SyBridge Technologies produces medical device molds with features smaller than a grain of sand using 5-axis machining and ...

Hardware startup Saltgator Tech Inc. developed a soft-gel injection molding machine that is smaller than a coffee maker and aims to bring industrial-quality processing to desktops at homes, schools ...

Two-shot injection molding and the right materials put soft-touch grips and watertight seals on an expanding array of structural plastics. There are times when hard plastics need softer qualities.

Among the new toolpath algorithms included in VISI 20 is a hybrid roughing strategy that reduces significantly the number of rapid moments, avoid tool plunging into material, optimize stepover in ...