I was recently involved in a consulting job and was asked the following question… Project Manager The tooling vendor is charging extra for the mold prints and CAD drawings. Should we purchase these? My Response You should always obtain prints and CAD files from your tooling vendor… even if you plan on using this vendor for […]
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Selecting Your Training Metrics
In a recent webinar, I received a common question… Mark When tracking the improvements of training, what should I monitor? My Response I will answer this is a few parts… 1) Choose from the data that is already available – Do not create new metrics to monitor… if it was important to the management, someone would already […]
Teaching The Exceptions To The Rule…
A colleague of mine were recently discussing employee training, and the conversation moved towards this question… George I understand that there are general rules that can be taught, but how do you handle the exceptions that come up from time to time? My Response There are always exceptions to the rule, but it is more important to teach your employees the fundamentals […]
Understanding Back-Flow Within the Barrel…
I received an interesting follow-up question regarding one of my earlier posts… Steve One of our techs stated that there is back-flow in the barrel. Is this true? How does this happen? My Response Yes, back flow does occur within the barrel in three ways: 1) Material will flow back over the check ring – […]
Assisting Part Ejection From Long Cores
I received this e-mail from a molder overseas… Nathan We are molding PS 750 (NL) tubes in an eight cavity mold. When we use a higher mold temperature, part ejection is good, but the parts display sinks near the slides. With a lower temperature, we can mold parts which look good, but are difficult to eject. We […]