To robustly secure plastic housings for the wheelchair accessory, the part incorporated threaded metal inserts into molded plastic housings to improve strength. Power wheelchair users have the ...

Think you’ve squeezed the maximum weight and cycle time out of your injection-molded design? Users of MuCell microcellular-foam technology beg to differ. They’ve cut part weight 8 to 12% without major ...

When performing experiments on surface conductivity, a material supplier found DOE software provided answers quicker and more efficiently. Conductive compounds such as plastic resins with carbon ...

ME 325 teaches injection molding hands-on (NIC FORT/The Stanford Daily). In ME 325: “Making Multiples: Scaled Manufacturing Tooling,” undergraduate and graduate students engage in injection molding, a ...

When it comes to manufacturing, sheet metal and injection molding make the world go ’round. As a manufacturing method, injection molding has its own range of unique design issues and gotchas that are ...

3D printing is great for prototyping, and not bad for limited runs of parts. Unfortunately though it really doesn’t scale well beyond a few pieces, so when you’re ready for the mass market you will ...

There are 10 parameters that design engineers must keep front of mind when designing parts for injection molding, but they are all predicated on one simple, low-cost method for ensuring perfect molded ...

This Webinar will focus on solving injection molding issues using a systematic approach, called Design of Experiments, or DOE, that has been successful in other fields. With plastic processing ...

Discover the future of injection molding at the IMD Expo in Novi, Mich., on Sept. 20-21, 2023. Explore the latest technologies, materials and equipment from across the North American supply chain and ...