R&D/Leverage (Lee's Summit, MO) filed its 15th patent related to injection blow mold (IBM) tooling this year, the latest milestone in a years-long project to identify and resolve problems related to ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

Large composite tool for layup and cure of a fairing. Carbon fiber-reinforced facesheet is paired with carbon eggcrate backup structure for optimal coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and thermal ...

Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the process of designing your product with the goal of making it easy to manufacture. It is a critical manufacturing tooling design and process development step ...

Invar tools, such as these massive wingskin tools shown here, exemplify the most durable of metal tools — a category sometimes called hard tooling. Although relatively heavy and expensive, metal molds ...

Product development cycles have decreased considerably with the growing use of Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Solid modeling used with approaches such as mechanical simulation and finite element ...

Trinamic Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, now part of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has released an open-source, fully integrated reference design that simplifies the development of industrial robotic ...