
Designing For Molding: Draft
Drafting is an important design feature for mold functionality and part quality.

Drafting is an important design feature for mold functionality and part quality.

If you’ve been inside a mold shop you’ve likely seen a few electrical discharge machines (EDM). Here’s how they work and how he technology is utilized.

Proper preventative maintenance is critical to life of injection mold tooling. Here we go over the basics of making your tools last.

There are a handful of different materials used for building injection molds. It’s important to understand the application of each.
Being in the industry we use the lingo as if everyone already knows what we’re talking about. We hope to clarify some of the terminology here.

When deciding to upgrade from a cold runner to a hot runner there are a few contributing factors to consider.

The strength of being a mold builder and injection molder is realized through the entire process. From initial design to long term production.

Injection molding defects can happen for many reasons during the molding process. We cover the common defects and what you can do to fix them.

SPI introduced mold building classifications to help eliminate confusion in mold quoting. Here is a list of each class along with a description of each.
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