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 ...

Injection molding is a highly-engineered process that demands careful planning and attention to detail if the finished product is to achieve its full potential. The tips in this article should help ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the greatest disadvantages of plastic materials is their flexibility and relatively low stiffness. One of the greatest advantages of plastic materials is their flexibility and low stiffness.

Although everyone knows that plastic injection molding can produce mass volumes of parts with precision and low cost, not every manufacturer gets the process right, which could defeat its purpose and ...

Additive manufacturing has a firm place in product development, but how and when do you transition from 3D printing to molding? Call it 3D printing or call it additive manufacturing, the terms are ...

I turned contaminated 3D printer waste into recycled plastic products using a desktop injection molding machine. The project used contaminated, 100% recycled PLA from failed prints and 3D printer ...

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 ...

In school, I learned how to design metal parts, but resin part design was never covered in class. Injection molding, in particular, differs significantly from metal part manufacturing, so I had to ...