IMS eCONCEPTS
IMS eCONCEPT$™ is a unique, e-bulletin focusing on products and services designed expressly to increase production, decrease costs and maximize molding profits. These topics include ways to run faster, produce better parts, conserve utilities, extend equipment life and more.
 
Index of topics:
Ways to MOLD BETTER PARTS / CUT REJECTS:
Don’t let humidity and dampness dilute your profits!
Excess moisture in your molding material can cause splaying, voids, brittleness, delamination, weld lines etc. Most of these defects can be eliminated by thoroughly drying your material before processing.
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Ways to MOLD BETTER PARTS, SIMPLIFY MOLD SETUP and AVOID EQUIPMENT DAMAGE:
New SMARTFLOW® line can boost your profits 3 ways!
IMS is proud to be a Smartflow Factory Authorized Distributor. The Smartflow product line is manufactured to exacting specifications for highest quality to keep machines running to increase molder’s profits.
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Ways to STRETCH YOUR MRO BUDGET:
You’ll never have to order and wait for a special size nozzle or nozzle tip again!
IMS Nozzle and Nozzle Tip Thread Adapters let you use existing, standard size hot end components ( 1-3/4"-8 thread, 3/4" r.o. nozzles and 7/8"-14 thread, 1/2" r.o. nozzle tips) in a much wider variety of applications.
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Ways to EXTEND EQUIPMENT LIFE:
Have worn barrels been robbing your profits?
Can’t afford any lengthy downtime right now? Installing an IMS BRODY-ring® on your existing screw tip will not only help you regain control of part quality, but will also let you postpone barrel repairs until after your job is complete.
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Ways to REDUCE DOWNTIME:
Cut barrel band replacement downtime by 80%
Consider that a typical one-piece heater band takes about 1 hour to replace while an HTFlex Band™ requires only 10 minutes. That’s an 80% reduction in downtime which can yield significant cost savings.
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Ways to RUN FASTER CYCLES:
Just 1/64" of scale can reduce heat transfer up to 40%!
The unique, IMS Lime Buster III™ Mold Water-Passage Cleaner will dissolve and flush away trouble-causing deposits. Heat transfer becomes faster; cycle times get shorter and electricity use goes down.
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Ways to CONSERVE (Compressed Air):
You could be leaking thousands of dollars worth of compressed air and not even know it!
Our New Ultrasonic Leak Detector can help determine if you are or not. Most plant noises are in the normal range of human hearing, but turbulence created by air forced through a small orifice (a leak) generates ultrasonic sound which is NOT audible.
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Ways to CONSERVE (Electricity):
Do you want to increase the profitability of your operations?
Uni-Vest™ Barrel Insulation Systems will not only cut energy use, they promote faster machine start-ups, help ensure consistent part quality AND they pay for themselves in energy savings.
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Ways to CONSERVE (Molding Materials):
Don’t let contaminated and spilled material lower your profits
While Gaylord & Drum Covers stop dirt, dust, metal objects, trash and other contaminants from GETTING INTO molding materials, Gaylord & Drum Liners help keep materials from LEAKING OUT OF their containers.
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Tech Tips:
Maximizing the Value of Regrind
With resin prices continuing to go up, the use of regrind is becoming a more viable tool for the molder. The nature of plastic processing ensures that we will probably always have regrind, whether it comes from start up, trimmed flash...
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Need help deciding on a method or formula for mold release?
Mold release is not as simple as it used to be. The days of an operator spraying a can of CFC-based mold release are gone. Formerly simple mold release decisions now require more information than ever before.
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Need help deciding what size mold chiller to order?
Sizing a chiller for your molding shop is important for the following reasons: If too small a chiller is selected...
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 In our next edition: Ways to Cut Cycle Times, Mold Better Parts, Conserve (Floor Space), Reduce Downtime and Stretch Your MRO Budget.
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