Quick Mold Chane or SMED

There has been a lot of discussion heard lately on reducing mold set-up times throughout the injection molding industry by using quick mold change methods. Even though many companies are not at full utilization of their equipment, management would love and often pushes for the the achievement of one minute changeovers on all molds so they do not loose any machine time. What management does not always do is to support the idea with money saving devices or studies to help the process technician and set-up people to achieve quicker mold change over's. This often produces frustration in with the technicians and die setters who are trying to do a faster change over with out some of the fancy tools to do it with. Quick mold change is simple in it's basic form. To learn more about this process please visit my main website at http://www.wm8c.com/quick_mold_change.htm read the rest of this article and learn more about injection molding processes.

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