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 ...

St. Charles, Ill. — Microplastics Inc. has released a design kit that includes information on how insert molding can reduce assembly and labor costs, as well as size and weight, while increasing ...

A simple project with big payoff. Sometimes it’s the simplest details that make the most striking visual impact, and wall molding offers the perfect example. This design detail has a long history, ...

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 ...

Design engineers can realize important gains by working collaboratively with the companies (often at the tail end of a supply chain) that design and manufacture the tooling that critically influences ...

When engineers at General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products (GDATP) recently designed the ammunition container for a new aircraft weapon system, they decided very early in the process to make ...

One of the most interesting new designs was the first-ever use of a single-piece chrome tube directly molded in a composite structure for vehicle protection. The part is a brush guard used to shield ...

Nylon is one of the most widely used engineering thermoplastics due to its excellent mechanical properties, such as high ...