3D printing is a technique we’ve all been using for ages at home, or via Shapeways, but if you are designing a product, 3D printing will only get you so far. It’s crude, slow, expensive, and has lots ...

ME 325 teaches injection molding hands-on (NIC FORT/The Stanford Daily). In ME 325: “Making Multiples: Scaled Manufacturing Tooling,” undergraduate and graduate students engage in injection molding, a ...

Injection molded plastics have revolutionized design, innovation, and manufacturing in the 20th century. Before 1950, most products were manufactured in stamped steel, die-cast aluminum, zinc, and ...

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 ...

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.

The winning design from Italian university’s Pleiades program will be molded live during Arburg Technology Days in March.

Keeping moldability top of mind during the design process not only ensures that parts perform as intended, but can help save time and cut down on production costs. Before it even hits the factory ...

Both Injection Molding and Computer Controlled Numeric Machining are methods that can be employed by many industries and project teams to design a product. A complex product design – image courtesy of ...

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 ...

Injection molding is the technology used to create parts by melting plastic, then injecting it into the mold to cool and solidify taking the form of the mold. After it’s done the cooling, the part can ...