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Smart Molding International 2-2025

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Shows

05. - 10.

February 2026

Plastindia

New Delhi,

India

04. - 06.

March 2026

Asiamold Select

Guangzhou,

China

18. - 19.

March 2026

Solids

Dortmund,

Germany

More Shows

Fiber-reinforced chassis for light commercial vehicles

Sustainable solution with polyurethane resin / High productivity through continuous production / Simple assembly, superior crash performance

Articles

Wear-free process monitoring during production

New HASCO presents new proximity switches for precise, contact-free position monitoring

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Software and simulation

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Сase studies

Providing optimum gate design for Acer

Acer achieves higher quality surface finishes with Moldex3D Design of Experiment

News 09.08.2017

Process optimization with SIGMA Engineering

SIGMA Engineering presents its Autonomous Optimization at Fakuma 2017

Videos

TwinCAT HMI: Simple, open, based on HTML5

TwinCAT HMI enables an efficient engineering of user interfaces directly in the Visual Studio environment, HMI can be executed responsively on any HTML5-capable browser

Articles

Shorter R&D cycle time through advanced IMD simulation technology

Moldex3D solutions help reducing product warpage, molding defects and furthermore optimizing product designs

Сase studies

Virtual tool alloy selection

Rating benefits of costly tool alloys for improved part quality and cycle time

News 16.06.2017

Jabil accelerates innovation with launch of Blue Sky Center in Spain

Blue Sky Innovation Center - Tortosa will enable customer collaboration, innovation and competitiveness in the digital era

Articles

BMSvision PLANTMASTER MES and moving towards a Smart Factory

Digital technology at the heart of Industry 4.0 will bring about the conditions necessary for higher productivity and costs savings

News 23.05.2017

Virtually optimized cooling channels

SIGMASOFT virtual injection molding machine for more reliability in the design phase