• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Make Parts Fast

Make Parts Fast provides news and information about 3D printing, digital manufacturing, prototype parts and rapid manufacturing.

  • Industries
    • Aerospace
    • Architecture
    • Automotive
    • Consumer Products
    • Industrial
    • Medical
  • Additive Technologies
    • Binder Jetting
    • Directed Energy Deposition
    • Extrusion
    • FAQs
    • Material Jetting
    • Powder Bed Fusion
    • Sheet Lamination
  • Service Bureaus
    • Service Bureau News
    • Prototype Parts by Protolabs
    • Xcentric Mold & Engineering
  • Leslie’s blog
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Women in Engineering

Injection Molding Production

An integrated approach to simulation-driven design for manufacturing (DFM) of injection molded components

November 5, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing (HPC),  launched Altair Inspire Mold, an end-to-end solution for simulating injection molding. Injection molded plastic … [Read more...] about An integrated approach to simulation-driven design for manufacturing (DFM) of injection molded components

Filed Under: Injection Molding Production, Software Tagged With: Altair

Combining 3D printing and injection molding

June 15, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Starting in the later half of 2020, Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials, in a strategic partnership with AddiFab, will offer services based on Freeform Injection Molding from three locations. Freeform Injection Molding (FIM) is based on 3D-printed … [Read more...] about Combining 3D printing and injection molding

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Industries, Injection Molding Production Tagged With: addifab

AM software guides development of injection molded part

May 29, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Comeragh Composites is a specialist technical consultancy based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with dedicated expertise in delivering systems for polymer and composite manufacturing projects. The company’s engineering team recently collaborated with … [Read more...] about AM software guides development of injection molded part

Filed Under: Injection Molding Production Tagged With: additiveflow

Direct rapid soft tooling helps you 3D print micro mold tooling

May 12, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

There is a compelling drive towards the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to manufacture mold tools. Here’s a look at one technology for micro mold tooling. Jon Donner, CEO, Nanofabrica As AM matures as a process not just for prototyping but … [Read more...] about Direct rapid soft tooling helps you 3D print micro mold tooling

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Electronics, Industrial, Injection Molding Production, Medical Tagged With: nanofabrica

What service providers are doing to help battle the pandemic

May 11, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Listen as Greg Thompson of Protolabs discusses how service bureaus are helping in the battle against the Coronavirus with their ability to offer a range of prototyping and manufacturing capabilities. Welcome to Technology Forward. In addition … [Read more...] about What service providers are doing to help battle the pandemic

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, CNC Machining, Injection Molding Production, Leslie's blog, Medical, Podcasts, Service Bureau News Tagged With: protolabs

3D printing silicone for prototyping molds

April 29, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Advances in new elastomeric materials formulated specifically for urethane, epoxy, and acrylic casting and 3D printing make silicone a vital solution for molds for rapid prototyping. Leveraging silicone technologies will allow rapid prototyping … [Read more...] about 3D printing silicone for prototyping molds

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Injection Molding Production, Materials Tagged With: shinetsu

Micro molding – The need for collaboration and DfM

March 23, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

There are a certain set of rules and understandings of the molding process at the macro level that simply don’t work at the micro level. The flow of molten plastic, it's cooling, warpage, necessary venting and gating … are all different when molding … [Read more...] about Micro molding – The need for collaboration and DfM

Filed Under: Featured, Injection Molding Production, Rapid Injection Molding Tagged With: accumold

Designing it right to make it right

January 9, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Machining?  Injection molding? Additive manufacturing? Sheet metal fabrication? Engineers and product designers have several manufacturing choices to consider these days during the design and prototyping stages of making a part. Machining and … [Read more...] about Designing it right to make it right

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Injection Molding Production, Machining / Milling Tagged With: protolabs

Advances in vertical injection molding make medical device design easier

December 11, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

By John Schmitz, President of Aberdeen Technologies, Inc. The medical sector has embraced the high standards that plastic injection molding can offer. Insert molding, especially on a vertical molding press, can hold tight tolerances while also … [Read more...] about Advances in vertical injection molding make medical device design easier

Filed Under: Injection Molding Production, Rapid Injection Molding Tagged With: Aberdeentechnologiesinc

Tips on working with gates in micro-molded parts

November 14, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

By Scott Byal, Sr. Project Engineer, Accumold As technology shrinks, previously overlooked aspects of injection molded parts are causing significant challenges and problems. With larger injection molded parts, the gate, where polymer enters the … [Read more...] about Tips on working with gates in micro-molded parts

Filed Under: Injection Molding Production, Rapid Injection Molding Tagged With: accumold

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 14
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Make Parts Fast Additive Handbook

Additive Manufacturing Design Guide – Download

Design World Digital Editions

Design World Digital Edition

Browse the most current issue of Design World and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading design engineering magazine today.

Managing Editor, Leslie Langnau

Leslie Langnau

Leslie Langnau is the Managing Editor of the Design World Network. She also has more than 20 years experience as a technology editor, covering such areas as controls, mechanics, mechatronics, couplings, industrial networks, and the field now known as additive manufacturing (formerly rapid prototyping).

Footer

Make Parts Fast Digital Network

Videos
Podcasts
Leadership in Engineering
Follow us on TwitterAdd us on FacebookAdd us on LinkedInAdd us on InstagramAdd us on YouTube

Copyright © 2022 · WTWH Media LLC and its licensors. All rights reserved.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media.

Privacy Policy