March 1, 2020
March 2020
March is a month of significance. It marks the end of the first quarter of the year. The time changes from standard time to daylight savings time (March 8, 2020). The NCAA basketball starts its tournament with March Madness. Winter gives way to Spring. Spring training gets into full swing in March.
Now is a good time in the plastic injection molding industry to look at any new tooling for VA/VE ideas to engineer cost savings into the tool and process. As I have mentioned before, it has become increasingly difficult to protect your bottom line with increasing costs, supply chain interruptions, piece price reductions pushed by the customers, to name a few pressures. While some of these pressures are out of your control, you can look at tools and process rationalization to fortify the bottom line.
The injection mold itself is a good place to start. A direct gated hot runner system offers many advantages over a cold runner system. While the initial cost of a hot runner system is a little higher than the cold runner, the ROI is realized very quickly spread out over the life of the tool in piece price. Here are a few of the benefits of using the direct gated hot runners. Material savings as there is no runner needed. Because there is no runner, cycle times can be reduced due to less material injected into the tool, that reduces the cooling time required. There is no need for gate cutters to trim the runners, that eliminates the need for some secondary processes. With no runners there will be less material to be ground in the granulators. That will reduce the noise, dust, and other issues associated with regrind.
Feel free to contact me if you have new tooling on the horizon and we will discuss the benefits of using a direct gated hot runner. We can support you in a single drop hot runner or a complete multi--drop manifold system.
Until next month, be safe, hope your NCAA brackets survive March Madness, and make good parts.
Please like us on Facebook at FISA Corporation
Mark Gilley
(931) 684-9433
sales@fisacorp.com
www.fisacorp.com
Now is a good time in the plastic injection molding industry to look at any new tooling for VA/VE ideas to engineer cost savings into the tool and process. As I have mentioned before, it has become increasingly difficult to protect your bottom line with increasing costs, supply chain interruptions, piece price reductions pushed by the customers, to name a few pressures. While some of these pressures are out of your control, you can look at tools and process rationalization to fortify the bottom line.
The injection mold itself is a good place to start. A direct gated hot runner system offers many advantages over a cold runner system. While the initial cost of a hot runner system is a little higher than the cold runner, the ROI is realized very quickly spread out over the life of the tool in piece price. Here are a few of the benefits of using the direct gated hot runners. Material savings as there is no runner needed. Because there is no runner, cycle times can be reduced due to less material injected into the tool, that reduces the cooling time required. There is no need for gate cutters to trim the runners, that eliminates the need for some secondary processes. With no runners there will be less material to be ground in the granulators. That will reduce the noise, dust, and other issues associated with regrind.
Feel free to contact me if you have new tooling on the horizon and we will discuss the benefits of using a direct gated hot runner. We can support you in a single drop hot runner or a complete multi--drop manifold system.
Until next month, be safe, hope your NCAA brackets survive March Madness, and make good parts.
Please like us on Facebook at FISA Corporation
Mark Gilley
(931) 684-9433
sales@fisacorp.com
www.fisacorp.com