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Injection Molding Best Practices

Injection molding best practices related to Fast Heat by Spark Industries hot runner controls, diagnostics and related products and services.

Our Productivity Series is designed for high-cavity injection molders and follows a normal sequence of events on the production floor:

  • kW Demand Planning
  • Maintenance
  • Troubleshooting
  • Processing
  • Molding Cell Integration

Some excerpts from this category of best practices includes:

High-cavity hot runner systems can consume a lot of electricity. When you register for this productivity series, we’ll send you an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the total system amps for your tools. For example, a recent customer figured that the total system amps for their 72-zone hot runner system is 359.7 amps! We’ll show you how our Pulse hot runner controllers enable you to minimize start-up kW demand and automatically limit peak amp draw by up to 67%  while maintaining precise temperature control during set-point operation.

Maintaining hot runner systems and cables can be a tedious job. We’ll send you a training guide to show you how to use our MoldXChecker and CableXChecker to save you time and ensure 100% accurate system and cable testing results. And, whether or not you use our tools, this guide will help show you how important it is to check for opens, miswires, and dangerous shorts.

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CableXChecker®: Diagnose Hot Runner Cable Issues

CableXChecker® - Effectively Getting to the Root of the Problem Spaghetti bowl?! That’s right…spaghetti! That’s what all the wires and cables inside a press might remind you of…and have you looked closely at all the pins and cables making up a hot runner system? CableXChecker® gets you to the root of the problem! Plastic injection

Low-Investment Molding Solution

Hot Runner Temperature Control: A Low-Investment Molding Solution Processing challenges and mold design considerations amplify the importance of the use of hot runner controls and your molding solution. Before we get started on the subject of using hot runner controls as a wide-reaching molding solution, we thought it worth mentioning where we are economically. The

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Reliable Hot Runner Temperature Control

Pulse technology demonstrates enhanced ergonomic features for accurate and reliable hot runner temperature controllers Catchy intro… Well, we don’t really have one. But to be straightforward…Fast Heat Inc. by Spark Industries is simply the apex of the industry when it comes to reliable hot runner temperature controllers. Gear like the (showcased at Amerimold 2021

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Hot Runner Control Input and Output Communication

Hot Runner Control Input-Output Signals Hot runner control input-output signals are a terrific way to integrate hot runner temperature controls with injection molding machines. Further, they can be tied in with robots, conveyors, or other peripheral equipment. The Fast Heat Pulse Controller has four INPUT and OUTPUT channels. The channels are configurable per order,

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Hot Runner Control Impact on Moldflow Analysis

Consistent Hot Runner Temperature Control is Key We've known for many years that Fast Heat clients value precise hot runner temperature control, especially for engineered resins, glass-filled applications and wide-spec regrinds. These materials require consistent temperature control to achieve "part-to-print" specifications. According to CAE, a leader in Moldflow analysis, altering material characteristics due to

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Hot Runner Maintenance Training

Hot Runner Maintenance Training Needs to Include Why Not Just How Onboarding and training new employees on why things are done a certain way and not just how is critical in hot runner temperature control and proper hot runner system management. What does onboarding and training have to do with hot runner controls? First,

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Fast Heat’s CableXChecker®: Hot Runner Cable Testing

Hot Runner Cable Testing - So Much Easier! Hot runner cable testing can be a tedious process. The traditional way of testing hot runner cables uses an ohmmeter or multimeter. The problem is that when cables are “set aside” in the “not-sure-what’s-wrong-with-it pile,” somebody has to troubleshoot the cables to see if they are faulty.

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Hot Runner Maintenance – Fast Heat’s MoldXChecker®

Hot Runner Maintenance - A Better & Safer Way! Hot runner maintenance can be a challenge. You look for dead shorts caused by pinched wires, open circuits, and you would want to measure the resistance of the heaters to ensure they are in a healthy range. Let’s start by measuring the resistance of the

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MoldXChecker®: Hot Runner Diagnostics

Hot Runner Maintenance Using the MoldXChecker® Just like you would connect your hot half to a hot runner controller, you can now connect to the Fast Heat MoldXChecker®. If you’re wise and use the Mold Checker in the tool room, you would also know if you had an open heater. Waiting until you have a

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Hot Runner Cable Testing

Manny Diaz invented the Fast Heat CableXChecker® because of practical problems he experienced on service calls. It took too long and was too easy to make a mistake when checking for zone continuity and shorts (most people do not check for shorts) within hot runner cables. The CableXChecker® saves time (about 15 minutes per

By |2024-03-22T12:09:02+00:00November 15th, 2019|Hot Runner Maintenance, Injection Molding Best Practices|Comments Off on Hot Runner Cable Testing

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