Where should mold makers focus to boost business profitability? With significant business pressures and the technical complexity of injection molding, mold making is a challenging business. While tool makers face many obstacles, those surveyed identified five top challenges that make it harder to maintain a successful business. This blog post reveals these top five challenges,…
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Breaking the Mold: How Toolmakers Are Transforming Operations
What does it take for toolmakers to be competitive? What can mold makers do to improve their business? Tech-Clarity’s eBook, Breaking the Mold: How Toolmakers Are Transforming Operations to Stay Competitive explores these questions. The business of mold making is tough. Firstly, there is the time consuming bidding process where you need to provide an accurate,…
Designing and Molding Better Plastic Parts
What’s the cost of poor-quality plastic parts? How can you avoid that cost? Findings from Tech-Clarity’s eBook, How-to Guide for Designing and Molding Better Plastic Parts reveal that 96% of surveyed manufacturers report finding manufacturing defects during mold trials. Highlighting why that’s so painful, manufacturers report that correcting these defects during the mold trial adds…
Moldmakers: Design and Produce Tools Faster
How can moldmakers better manage processes to meet delivery dates, without hurting profitability? During this webinar, Tech-Clarity’s Michelle Boucher shares some of her latest research on tool design and production. Daren Beeson from Siemens then shares examples of how tool shops have conquered the complexity of tooling design and production in the mold, tool, and…
Plastic Part and Mold Design (survey invitation)
This survey is now closed. Please check out our Active Research page for additional Tech-Clarity survey opportunities. How do leading companies improve the quality of their plastic parts? What steps do moldmakers take to reduce the length of mold trials? If your company designs or produces plastic parts or molds, please share your experience. We are conducting…