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Is Your Extrusion Die Flow Changing Despite Following All the Correct Formulas? Is starting up with a Dry Die the Problem?   One of the most common problems extrusion plants have is: flow shifting in the die tooling, especially after starting up. Even when the past run history and set up documents are followed and

Introducing the ROIP Concepts By now, everyone has heard of Lean Manufacturing and may apply the Lean principles in some form or fashion to their process. The Lean umbrella takes credit for anything done better today than yesterday by means of some type of formal or informal improvement process. Practicing the Lean Manufacturing principles helps

The extrusion process has many variables processers try to control. Still, one of the most overlooked variables is how heat is applied to the die via heat transfer from the heater band. Often, an extrusion cannot be produced to the same tolerance as the previous run. Work is done to the die to compensate for