Hackaday

Gain An Understanding Of Injection Molding’s Design Gotchas

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 ...
Machine Design

Using Injection Molding to Design a “Smart” Wheelchair Fit for Family

Power wheelchair users have the potential to get hurt when their devices, which weigh hundreds of pounds, tip over or run into objects. For brothers Barry and Jered Dean, the danger was one that hit ...
Plastics Today

Injection molding design: 10 critical considerations for designing high-quality molded parts, part one

There are thousands of designers who design injection molded parts but there is an elite group within this large community who can actually design parts for injection molders. Injection molded product ...
Nature

Single and multi-objective real-time optimisation of an industrial injection moulding process via a Bayesian adaptive design of experiment approach

Injection moulding (IM) is one of the leading manufacturing processes for the mass production of complex-shaped plastic components that require high precision. The quality and efficiency of the ...
Machine Design

3D Printing Not Yet Ready to Disrupt Plastic Injection Molding

This core was 3D printed from steel at Star Rapid using a Renishaw AM 250 printer. Product developers and engineers who design and manufacture plastic parts now have a powerful new weapon in their ...