Surface Strengthening Technology of Plastic Moulds

With the continuous development of material technology, plastic products are widely used in industrial manufacturing and daily life. Therefore, higher requirements are also put forward for the performance and service life of plastic molds. How to improve the performance and service life of plastic molds is an important topic in current plastic mold research. It…

Permanent mold casting vs sand casting, which is better?

When people talk about the metal casting process, the words most often heard are “sand casting” and “permanent mold casting“. They are also important casting methods, but their application fields are very different. Are you interested in taking five minutes to learn about it? This article will use as simple terms as possible, in the shortest time,…

How to Choose Mold Materials?

Traditional mold materials are divided into cold work mold materials, hot work mold materials, and plastic mold materials. The selection of mold materials should meet the requirements of wear resistance, toughness, fatigue fracture performance, high-temperature performance, corrosion resistance, and cold and heat fatigue resistance. The process performance should meet the requirements of forge ability, large…

The Specific Application of Green Manufacturing in Mold

As an important pillar of rapid economic development, manufacturing also causes a lot of waste of resources and pollution to the ecological environment. For the manufacturing industry, how to minimize the waste of resources in the manufacturing industry and reduce the harm caused by the manufacturing industry to the environment is a very important issue….

3 Free and Easy-to-Use Circuit Design Software You Must Try

Engineering software and online resources are often expensive as software equipment necessary for mold making. These resources are often necessary for users to execute projects or just for engineering validation, but the associated costs are prohibitive for many. Here are a few high-quality freeware that you’ll love. 1. Circuit Simulation PartSim PartSim is a browser-based…

Advantages and Disadvantages of 3D Printing Technology to Make Molds

3D printing is additive manufacturing, a type of rapid prototyping technology. It uses a digital model file as the basic framework and uses bondable materials such as powdered metal or plastic to construct objects by layer-by-layer printing. 3D printing technology integrates cutting-edge technologies in many fields such as information technology, digital modeling technology, electromechanical control…

Application of EDM Technology in Die Manufacturing

For workpieces with complex structures, traditional cutting methods are often difficult to achieve. Therefore, some new methods have been developed in production. EDM is one of them, and it is widely used in the processing of cavities in the mold manufacturing industry. EDM technology is a new process that directly utilizes electrical and thermal energy…