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Michigan CNC Machining Parts, Inc.’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.
Plastic Injection Material For Dummies
No, not plastics to make dummies out of, although you could do that. We want to talk about the kinds of plastics you need for the plastic injection process, and how to make sense of the dizzying array of choices out there. Plastic injection molding is, by far, the...
Five Early Prototypes In History
Simple machines in the hands of creative thinkers show what can be done with a little imagination and hard work. Actually, a lot of imagination and hard work. Long before the advent of the industrial revolution and modern machine tools, inventors and tinkerers have...
Pad Printing: Fast And Durable
Michigan CNC Machining Parts, Inc. has just increased our capacity with the introduction of our latest piece of equipment, the Kent G-Turbo 90 S/2 pad printer. This is an industrial machine with two independent pads capable of printing in two colors. It has a solid granite armature for...
5 Reasons To Rethink Autonomous Cars
We talked last time about five reasons why the advent of so-called "driverless" cars would be a great idea. But for those of you out there with a skeptical bent, we would like to present the other side of the story. Here then are the top five reasons why self-driving...
Foreign General Managers Annual Meeting And High Profile Forum
On April 17th the "Foreign General Managers Annual Meeting and High Profile Forum" was successfully held in the Zhongshan High-Tech Zone. The event was organized by the Zhongshan Torch Hi-Tech Zone Government and Cuiheng New District Government, and was co-organized...
5 Reasons Why Self-Driving Cars Will Create Heaven On Earth
In this first of a two-part essay, we'll discuss some of the technologies of and advantages to self-driving, autonomous vehicles. This subject has been bandied about quite a bit over the last few years, and now of course Google is investing some very real money into...
5 Great Ways To Get Started In Design
Think about the products you use on a daily basis. Whether they’re physical products like laptops or digital ones like apps, we’re surrounded by innovative product design examples everywhere we look. These products represent the work of product designers. From a...
Maker’s Mark
Back in the day, American public schools had a varied curriculum to provide to their students. In addition to the traditional courses in math, history, geography and English literature, there would be elective courses in one of several practical or shop-related...
