Advanced Materials

Xcentric Mold & Engineering’s guide to designing plastic injection molded parts

May 15, 2019 By

Optimizing your part design from concept through production will help you eliminate unneeded costs and reduce the time to produce your custom, injection molded, plastic parts. Learn how to incorporate features like draft, threads, hinges and overmolding by taking advantage of the injection molding process.

Learn the basics of the injection molding process
Discover how to obtain optimal performance out of materials and resins
Gain insights on best practices for part design
Determine what features to incorporate into your design to maximize time and cost savings
Learn how to avoid common pitfalls that impact injection mold design

A proven partner to shorten your time to market. Xcentric offers rapid injection molding, CNC machining and additive manufacturing services.

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In-house manufacturing of prototype and low volume production
Molding, machining and printing highly complex parts
Design for Manufacturability analysis
Sourcing a wide range of standard and specialty materials
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Download 52-Page EMI Shielding Guide

April 21, 2016 By

2016 Interactive Shielding Catalog PDF lets the user jump from page-to-page to download interactive sales drawings on 150 shielding products, including finger stock strips, gaskets, metalized fabric, fan vents, and board level shielding.

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The future of medical device coatings

April 8, 2016 By

Since the advent of Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) free coating materials, the medical device industry as a whole has observed increased levels of coating-related issues. Underlying these issues is the concern that PFOAfree coating materials demonstrate reduced levels of fluoropolymer layer adhesion and cohesion, resulting in increased risks of coating failure.

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How to optimize DC Plant Topology

March 6, 2015 By

The 1000NX, a bipolar inverter, is specifically engineered to reduce wiring and labor costs by accepting DC inputs from a dual separable array. The DC architecture associated with the 1000NX inverter, when implemented correctly, can save significant conductor material costs compared to a traditional monopolar design. In order to maximize material and labor savings, it is important to understand the differences in DC electrical design for a bipolar architecture compared with traditional monopolar architecture.
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Redesign Improves High-Speed Can Making Machine

December 12, 2014 By

Solving a costly lubrication problem triggers unexpected productivity improvements

Can making equipment is nothing if not specialized. Yet the subsystems found on these machines offer a number of design lessons that can be applied more broadly by any engineer working to improve the performance and reliability of high-speed equipment.

Consider, for example, the cam-driven ram actuators found on a can line’s necking stations. Mounted on a rotating turret and moving at speeds up to 250 strokes per minute, these rams push the round can shell onto a series of shaping dies that gradually reduce the diameter of the can to form its neck.

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Intech - RAM Redesign

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Polymers Outperform Metals In Precision Gearing

December 12, 2014 By

Gears, especially in open gearing applications, share a set of well-known performance problems that crop up again and again across many different applications. The most common ones include excessive noise, vibration, heat, weight and corrosion. Gears also tend to be either over-lubricated or subject to wear, which respectively causes contamination from grease or metal particles.

At best, all these performance issues will result in gears that are expensive to maintain. At worst, they will cause gears to fail prematurely, driving costs even higher. Download our paper to read how how can solve all of these problems with good gear design practices.

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Wind turbine technology repair solutions

November 20, 2014 By

Blade manufacturers rely on Sika to deliver products and solutions critical to the repairing of wind turbine blades. For many years, our repair solutions have ensured that each blade maintains its service reliability, even when repaired in some of the harshest environments.

High Performance Bonding Technologies for CSP

November 20, 2014 By

Sika provides adhesive solutions to optimize the production processes of bonding the fixation devices to the mirror systems. With different curing speeds and thixotropic behaviors of the adhesive technology Sika is able to offer solutions for every existing production process and process improvements. The newest innovation Sikasil® AS-780 enables an immediate handling and packaging of the bonded mirror systems without the need for complex buffer zones, thanks to the exceptional initial green-strength. This simplifies the production process and eliminates large buffer zones which cause cost and potential glass breakage.

Reliable and process optimized solar adhesive systems

September 26, 2014 By

Sika takes pride in delivering products and solutions that will last decades under harsh environmental conditions and in our 30 years successful experience in the facade and 15 years in the renewable energy industries. The range of solar applications may be extremely varied, but systems share the same need for outstanding performance.

Case Study : Robotic Dispensing of Appliance Adhesives Improves Quality, Reduces Cost

March 19, 2013 By

Background: The appliance industry bonds glass directly to oven door panels.

Their adhesive choices are either very high bond double-sided adhesive tape or a liquid adhesive such as 2-component silicone or methacrylate polymer for high bond strength, long term adhesion and high temperature resistance.

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Advanced Materials

Xcentric Mold & Engineering’s guide to designing plastic injection molded parts

Download 52-Page EMI Shielding Guide

The future of medical device coatings

How to optimize DC Plant Topology

Redesign Improves High-Speed Can Making Machine

Solving a costly lubrication problem triggers unexpected productivity improvements

Intech - RAM Redesign

Polymers Outperform Metals In Precision Gearing

Intech - PolymerGears

Intech - PolymerGears

Wind turbine technology repair solutions

High Performance Bonding Technologies for CSP

Reliable and process optimized solar adhesive systems

Case Study : Robotic Dispensing of Appliance Adhesives Improves Quality, Reduces Cost