The Plastic Engineer’s Undercut
November 27, 2019
What keeps a plastic engineer up at night? Sometimes they want to solve problems but cannot find that perfect solution without drawbacks. In the real ...
Design for Manufacture
Injection Molded Plastics Design for Venting
October 25, 2019
Many a frustrated engineer has suffered through the nightmare of injection molded plastics not coming out as designed. Sometimes injection molded plastics display short shots, ...
Design for Manufacturing
August 20, 2019
Design for Manufacturing – Plastic Part Ejection “Design is how it works” according to Ken Kocienda’s book Creative Selection, where he describes his design process ...
Plastic Injection Molding – Escape from Development Hell
July 30, 2019
Reducing Risks to Start Plastic Injection Molding Over the decades, clients have come to us for support on their new plastic injection molding projects. But ...
Plastic Part Design for Injection Molding
February 25, 2019
When optimizing plastic part design for injection molding, we want to focus on how mold design affects part design. This proves important during that critical ...
Draft Angles in Injection Molded Plastics
December 27, 2018
The realities of moving a new design into injection molding hit pretty quickly when the part design must be altered to include draft angles. Steve ...