Having finished the Tools of the Trade series on circuit board assembly, let’s look at some of the common methods for doing enclosures. First, and possibly the most common, is injection molding. This ...

The only parts that count are the ones that meet quality standards, and keeping pressure evenly distributed across a mold’s parting lines is one of the many critical tasks to get those good parts ...

The global market for plastic injection molded parts is currently valued at $325 billion, and this number is expected to grow by 5.7% through at least 2025. Spurred by the rapidly developing economies ...

Structural analyis codes already do a good job predicting the performance of molded plastic parts. Yet, their results never tell the full story because the mechanical properties of those parts depend ...

The first half of Going it Alone, Part III: Inside the Factory Walls appeared on CrunchGear yesterday. We pick up our survey of how consumer electronics are made with … “One Word: Plastics”. Injection ...