Mold Design website

A new website is now available, which is all about mold design. The plastic injection molding future is actually looking quite bright for those companies who have managed to survive the ups and downs of the past 10 years or so.

Mold design

In spite of the fact that so many companies have continued to outsource mold design, mold making and injection molding to countries with cheap labor, there is still a lot of work available.
The site tells how to find and choose a mold design company, design gates, design runners, a hot runner system, add vents and more.
Learning about mold design is beneficial not only to designers, but mold makers and molders as well. Even a general overview of the process can help to make the interactions of various disciplines much smoother. Not only that, but a healthy respect for the skills and abilities of a qualified mold designer can be nurtured.

Plastic Molding Equipment, Dryers, Grinders, Thermolators

There are many types of plastic molding equipment, and each one is essential to the process. If only one piece fails, the entire line usually has to be shut down or dramatically altered.
This might seem very obvious, but few laymen really have any idea just how much equipment is involved in producing all those dandy plastic items we all use and enjoy every single day.
Just look around you now and you will likely see a computer monitor, cell phone, calculator, lamp, tape dispenser, wireless modem, cd case and much much more. Each and every one of these things was molded and required the used of things like plastic dryers, plastic granulators, and thermolators to control the water temperature in the mold.
Then there are all the robotics usually found in a typical modern plastics molding facility.
You can learn more about plastic molding equipment, how to choose a plastic molding supplier and more at http://www.plasticmoldingsource.com

Plastic Injection Mold Design

See all those plastic things right in front of you? Your monitor, pen, letter opener, printer, lamp, wireless router, headphones, tape dispenser, CD player, camera, cell phone, and even the glasses lens on you face we all designed by a plastic injection mold designer.
Too bad the general public is so unaware of where all these things originate, mold designers are among the unsung heroes of modern life! They generally work alone or in small groups, daily dreaming up ways to produce all the the things we tend to take for granted.
Most designers either learned at at technical college or on the job. In my experience, most learned on the job and were, in fact, previously mold makers. This is a great way to learn how to design molds because it is not so theoretical and life is much easier for the guy making the mold: the mold maker.
Randy Hough writes about plastic injection mold design and plastic molding at http://www.plasticmoldingsource.com