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Star Rapid’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.
How Pressure Affects Your Plastic Injection Molded Parts
There are many types of pressure involved when making a plastic injection molded part. We’ve explained the importance of clamping pressure, so now let’s look at injection, holding and back pressure. It’s important for a product developer to understand how these forces...
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Six Questions to Ask When Looking for a Lean Manufacturer
Lean manufacturing helps identify and eliminate the seven types of waste typically found in manufacturing environments: transport, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, over-processing and defects. To combat this, manufacturers are increasingly adopting lean...
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What You Can Learn From Red Dot Design Award Winners
Every year we help to bring hundreds of unique product ideas to life, so we’ve learned a few things about what it takes to create successful products. Some of the designs we’ve worked on have been recognized at robotics competitions, as innovative smart home...
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Design Tips From The New Breed of Medical Wearables
A new ecosystem of lifestyle and medical wearables is being created right now that harnesses vast amounts of data about the human body. These data are then used to improve health, fitness and quality of life. These devices are empowered by the convergence of connected...
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The Ten Most Popular Plastic Injection Molding Materials
One of the most important aspects of any product development project using plastic injection molding is choosing the right material, as it directly affects the molding operation and also the part performance. There are thousands of plastic materials available in the...
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How Clamping Pressure Impacts Your Injected Molded Parts
Getting the best results from plastic injection molding requires that the process control engineer carefully balances several related variables when setting up the machine. One of these variables is clamping pressure. What is Clamping Pressure? Clamping...
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The Top 7 Methods For Forming Plastics
Plastic objects are of course found everywhere in our daily lives, but many people don’t know that there are different ways to form it for commercial or industrial use. Here are the seven most common methods, and what you need to know to decide which one is best for...
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The Top 5 Plastic Injection Molding Defects (and How to Solve Them)
Plastic injection molding is by far the most common way to mass-produce custom parts for every imaginable application and industry. It is fast, efficient and cost-effective, but there are design rules that need to be followed to avoid common defects and possible...
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