When setting up a plastic injection molding process, two fundamentals are the setpoints for clamp and ejector speeds and positions. Failure to set up the clamp properly can lead to a damaged mold or ...

Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

Injection molding is one of the technologies that makes the world go round. But what does it actually look like to go through the whole process to get a part made? [Achim Haug] wrote up a blog post ...

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

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Custom plastic injection molding is a highly useful processing method, but its complexity makes finding the right IM partner a must ...