Rogan Corp. has purchased two Sodick injection presses, with a third one coming later this year, as the company expands liquid silicone molding operations for medical at its plant in Northbrook, Ill.

Since my last article reviewed a subject covering a fundamental of a robust process, I decided to continue with that theme and cover screw-recovery time. You might think screw-recovery time should be ...

Cincinnati Process Technologies (CPT; Cincinnati), a supplier of machinery, parts, services and technology for the plastics molding industry, has announced a new line of injection molding machines ...

Screw machines are specialized automated metalworking lathes that were first developed in Switzerland during the late 1800s to produce large numbers of identical parts such as screws. At that time, ...

With the miniaturization of many products, manufacturers are streamlining devices to pack more features into smaller packages. For instance, the pitch (spacing) between contacts in electrical ...

Here’s a little engineering quiz for you: If an app needs to move a 500 kN axial load along a 1,500 mm stroke, is it best to use a roller screw or ball screw? If you instinctively said roller screw, ...