Beaumont Technologies, Inc. received a note from Alan Rude, Two Shot Leader / Sr, Process Engineer for ARaymond:
“We tried for three months to balance a mold, and were feeling the pressure from our customer. BTI designed a MeltFlipper runner system that immediately caused all eight cavities to fill evenly, which quickly eased the strain on our customer relationship.
“Our customer was not happy with the core shift and air entrapment problems in their medical syringe parts produced from our four-cavity mold. We unsuccessfully tried to balance the molds by opening the gates and changing the size of the runner.
“After installing the MeltFlipper our runner system for a 16-cavity mold that had trouble holding ISO conical dimensions, we are now able to consistently run parts in spec. The MeltFlipper has made the validation of the molding process a breeze. The consistency of the MeltFlipper product has been great. What BTI’s organization has been able to come up with is so simple yet so complex that it is truly amazing.”
“The MeltFlipper technology has completely changed how I look at potential profitability. The benefits I am particularly interested in is cost reduction, a larger processing window, and quality improvement. With the MeltFlipper technology, I was able to use one 16-cavity mold versus multiple low cavitation tools, and enjoy a 28 percent variability improvement.
“A primary objective at our Cortland facility is running with no blocked cavities. To achieve this goal, we’re putting the best technology into our molds, and the MeltFlipper technology is one of those technologies. It successfully addresses one of the largest factors that cause manufacturing to shut off cavities – defects related to unbalanced cavity filling.
We saw a drastic difference when using the MeltFlipper technology. Without any additional work, the MeltFlipper technology reduced our filling imbalance to less than 25% of our original imbalance. I’m recommending that Lord Corp. make the MeltFlipper technology a standard part of all eight cavity molds.
“I was skeptical at first, but when you understand how the MeltFlipper technology works, it makes a lot of sense. When we first installed it in a mold, it solved our imbalance problem instantly. We plan to use it in all our molds with eight or more cavities.”
“Of all the training seminars that I have attended over the past 10 years, this one ranks at the top! The explanations of clamp tonnage, cooling strategies, viscosity, and key mold design components are just a few of the takeaways that will be very useful in my job function.”
“I was amazed at the amount of expertise and knowledge presented in just two days. Many myths were debunked, numerous scientific explanations for the way we should be thinking about plastic flow were given, and various real-world examples were used to show how plastic flows.”
