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Growing demands for durability in electric vehicle (EV) engineering has made material selection for high-voltage power cables more critical than ever. We’ve done the research to help make your material selection go the distance. With industry insights from the trusted & proven fluoroelastomer, learn how you can improve EV performance and safety for the road ahead by downloading our white paper.
Growing demands for durability in electric vehicle (EV) engineering has made material selection for high-voltage power cables more critical than ever. We’ve done the research to help make your material selection go the distance. With industry insights from the trusted & proven fluoroelastomer, learn how you can improve EV performance and safety for the road ahead by downloading our white paper.
Growing demands for durability in electric vehicle (EV) engineering has made material selection for high-voltage power cables more critical than ever. We’ve done the research to help make your material selection go the distance. With industry insights from the trusted & proven fluoroelastomer, learn how you can improve EV performance and safety for the road ahead by downloading our white paper.
Growing demands for durability in electric vehicle (EV) engineering has made material selection for high-voltage power cables critical. Learn how you can improve EV performance and safety for the road ahead.
As innovations in automotive design lead to hotter-running engines, material selection for turbocharger hoses is critical. Viton™ Fluoroelastomers has done the research to help make your selection easier.
This case study examines how Cooper Standard quickly and effectively implemented the Uncountable platform to meet the needs of the global materials development organization. Uncountable’s R&D platform has enabled Cooper Standard to drive productivity through enhanced alignment and collaboration across the organization.
High Consistency Rubber (HCR) silicone injection molding requires special considerations to manufacture quality parts. The selection of the press, mold design, and gate design are integral to success. HCR silicone processing poses unique challenges when compared with organic polymer based rubber compounds. Part shrinkage, air entrapment, and hot tear issues are examples of processing issues to be considered. Bonding strategies and techniques for metal and plastic substrates are addressed in detail.
Elastomer compound design for injection molding is a complex balance of end-use properties, product specifications, chemistry, and processing characteristics. Careful consideration must be given to all variables, such as the physical form of the compound, polymer type, cure system, cycle time, and cost considerations, to name a few.
The compounder, whether in-house or a custom compounder, should be consulted as early as possible during the process design. A joint effort, including the developer of the tooling, process engineers, and compound chemists is ideal.
Many companies do not realize that they can drive business value out of a manufacturing execution system (MES). Other times, while they’ve received pressure from operations to bring in MES, they don’t buy in or the story they’re getting isn’t complete. While MES is often viewed as “just” a tool for helping the “shop people” go about their day-to-day tasks, the fact is that such a system also has more than ample potential to help transform the shop floor into a business center of excellence, and propel the company forward as it targets market leadership.