Editorial.* If your injection molding injection molding n. A manufacturing process for forming objects, as of plastic or metal, by heating the molding material to a fluid state and injecting it into a mold. plant capacity is sold out and you aren't really looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new customers, then bless you, there's no need to read further. Feel free to turn the page. For the rest of you, PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY is launching a new service this month that might help you get some of those idle machines running. A special message to our readers on p. 38 describes the new JobQuote Network found on our website, www.plasticstechnology.com. Created in cooperation with ManufacturingQuote.com of Smyrna, Ga., the JobQuote Network is designed to put OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and parts buyers in touch with custom molders they might not know about, and vice versa VICE VERSA. On the contrary; on opposite sides. . It's an online system for posting RFQs and job quotes, with handy tools to let molders select the kinds of jobs they want to quote on. This new service can also help you to buy tooling, rapid prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. , engineering, and finishing services. It provides the opportunity to compare pricing, delivery, etc. from a wider circle of vendors than you currently use. The JobQuote service is free to molded-parts buyers and, for an introductory period, there's no cost to molders either. We certainly hope you will try it and find it useful. We recognize that there's an inevitable chicken-and-egg problem in launching such a service. If molders flock to the site and find a dearth of buyers, they may be disappointed. The same goes if buyers post jobs but don't attract many quotes. Enough buyers and sellers have to give the service a try at the same time in order for it to work well for both of them. We will do everything we can through this magazine and our website to draw molders' attention to the JobQuote Network. To enlist en·list v. en·list·ed, en·list·ing, en·lists v.tr. 1. To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces. 2. To engage the support or cooperation of. v. the participation of parts buyers, we are cooperating in joint promotional efforts with other publications, such as the Thomas Register, NASA Tech Briefs NASA Tech Briefs is a magazine published by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency of the United States. This magazine is available, in either print form or electronically as PDF files, for free. , and our sister publications Modern Machine Shop, Production Machining, Automotive Manufacturing & Production, Products Finishing, and Automotive Finishing. Through these joint programs, we are trying to make the chicken and egg happen at the same time. MATT NAITOVE, EDITOR |
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