A prototype RC snowcat equipped with injection molded tracks is tested for maximum speed and durability. #RCCars #Prototype ...

Proto Labs Inc. is expanding its capabilities past its historical prototyping specialty over the next five years to conform to customers' more "traditional" processing and full-service production ...

While it’s the ideal choice for mass production, injection molding is simply no good for prototyping. The molds are expensive and time-consuming make, so unless you’ve got the funding to burn tens of ...

Hot runner specialist HRSflow (San Polo di Piave, Italy) and the Japanese toolmaker Tatematsu Mold Works (Aichi, Japan) have jointly designed a test tool that employs six gates for the molding of a ...

One of IndustryWeek's four Best Plants 2022 winners, Protolabs Injection Molding Facility in Plymouth, Minnesota, boasts an end-to-end digital chain and rapid product turnaround. Briana Miranda ...

“The clients we work with whose parts must meet various certifications – UL, FAA, and MIL-spec, among others – need to have a ‘real’ part to test against their real-world challenges. RPM facilitates ...

Prototyping and low-volume production have long been a challenge for companies that design and manufacture injection-molded parts. Ideally, prototypes for validation should be made of the same ...

Gardner, Mass.-based Mack Prototype, a subsidiary of injection molder Mack Molding Inc., bought five new all-electric presses to modernize and expand its facility for rapid prototyping, rapid tooling ...

3D printing is great for prototyping, and not bad for limited runs of parts. Unfortunately though it really doesn’t scale well beyond a few pieces, so when you’re ready for the mass market you will ...