Smart manufacturing uses AI and real-time data to boost injection molding quality, cut costs and predict equipment issues.

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. With this machine, ENGEL aims to enable technologies and components in entirely new dimensions together with its ...

Brea, Calif.-based Plastek Manufacturing Inc., an injection molder with in-house tooling, prototyping, production and testing capabilities, has invested in four injection molding machines as it adds ...

Austria’s Engel has built what it claims is the world’s largest injection molding machine. The two-platen behemoth, dubbed duo 12000 US, with a clamping force of 110,000 kN (12,364 US tons) was ...

An injection molded, threaded cap made from a 3D-printed metal mold insert, right, created on a Mantle P-200 machine. Within reach of you right now are probably five to 10 plastic products, or parts ...

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...