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Contents March 2013 Volume 16 / Number 3 26 32 Features Departments 26 Software Software Advances Push Limits of Speed and Quality Software continues to evolve as sophisticated features and capabilities are introduced, enabling mold manufacturers to produce the highest quality work in the most compressed leadtimes to date. 32 Mold Maintenance/Repair In the Trenches Series Mold Repair: A Challenge Worth Choosing Why not aspire to learn the skills to keep a $200,000 mold operating efficiently, longer? It���s a noble calling, rewarding, necessary and needed. 36 Mold Material The Hybrid Mold Hybrid cars, hybrid flowers, hybrid corn, so why not hybrid molds? 39 Machining Moldmakers Deserve a Total Production Solution Stability, spindle speed and software are essential considerations for your moldmaking machine tool. 42 Mold Components Think Metric Part 1 One man builds an argument for designing and building in metric. 44 Workforce Development Two Strategies for Securing Skilled Labor Mold manufacturers reveal their clever solutions to the workforce development dilemma���from hiring retirees to recruiting the young. 5 44 6 6 8 10 12 14 17 20 50 53 54 55 56 From the Editor: Maintenance Matters What���s New on MMT Online: Maintenance/Repair New Business Opportunities: CMM and DMLS Your Business: R&D; Tax Credit Extension MoldMaking Business Index Profile: iWarriors Case Study, Hot Runners Case Study, Software Product Focus MoldMaking Marketplace End Market Report: Electronics and Power Generation Ad Index TIP: EDM On THe COveR Image courtesy of Hwacheon Machinery America, Inc. (Vernon Hills, IL). The HWACHEON SIRIUS UL+, the mid-range machine among three mold/ die machines from Hwacheon, is a vertical mold and die machining center equipped with a HWACHEON designed and constructed 20,000-rpm integral motor spindle. It has become a benchmark for high-speed cutting as well as high-precision mold and die manufacturing. With a table size of 47.24��� x 23.62��� and a travel range of 41.34��� x 23.62��� x 21.65��� it is a good example of a machine capacity for competitive die and mold work. The very compact design of the machine, high accuracy, and superb machining performances has made the machine popular with shops that intend to remain globally competitive. See article on page 39. Images courtesy of (left to right) Vero, SRG Global and M-TEC. viDeO ACCeSS TRICKS OF THE TRADE Great Tips from This Issue 1. Need for Speed 2. Career Options Moldmakers want to automate the selection of the shortest tool possible for roughing and ���nishing and expect their CAM software to safely prepare the toolpaths to deal with it. There is and always will be, a need (and therefore, jobs) for skilled craftsmen to maintain and repair injection molds. PG. 32. PG. 26. 3. Best of Both Worlds 4. Making the Switch 5. It Takes More Than Technology One reason a hybrid mold is so exciting is that you can obtain and maintain the same ���nish as a P-20 mold since the cavity is P-20. A plan to promote going metric includes education on the simplicity of the metric standard and the economic advantages of working with the global standard. Increasing the effectiveness of EDM involves more than just technological improvements; you need training. PG. 36. PG. 42. 4 MoldMaking Technology March 2013 PG. 56.