Design for Maintenance: Five Tips to Extend Tool Life and Simplify Maintenance

Want to extend tool life? You need a design for maintenance approach.

Incorporating design for maintenance into your tooling process can help you reduce running maintenance costs, enhance part quality and reduce the risk of human errors. In this webinar, you’ll learn five essential tips for getting started with design for maintenance. Plus, discover how Canon Virginia, Inc.’s mold maintenance planning process and tooling solutions can add value to your business.

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Unlocking the Potential of Polycarbonate: Best Practices for Successful Injection Molding

In today’s manufacturing landscape, it’s common to be tasked with doing more with less. You rely on a combination of factors to mold smaller parts with greater precision to satisfy growing demands and higher production levels — all within a smaller space.

In this context, polycarbonate has become a popular material for modern products and injection molding applications. Manufacturers and designers increasingly select polycarbonate for its high impact resistance, stiffness, optical clarity, light weight and dimensional stability.

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Plastek Academy: Designing for Sustainability with E Commerce in Mind, Presented by Plastek

What does Plastek do in design, with sustainability / e-commerce in mind? How does Plastek work with our customers, to choose a proper material for sustainability & e-commerce ?

 


How to Succeed with Bioresin for Injection-Molded Applications

Bioresins have become an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional petroleum-based resins used in the injection molding process.

However, bioresins pose a number of challenges for molders due to their challenging physical properties, temperature sensitivity and uncertain performance.

So how do you succeed with bioresins? It takes the right combination of knowledge, experience and technology.

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