Plastic – Product by Process

the amazing automated manufacturing-assembly line of the Steam Controller.

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Get behind Valve’s fully automated assembly line for the Steam controller, “one of the largest fully automated assembly lines in the US”,including molding of the parts and assembly, it’s not only impressive, it’s almost sexy. “When we first started designing hardware at Valve, we decided we wanted to try and do the manufacturing as well. To achieve our goal of a flexible controller, we felt it was important to have a similar amount of flexibility in our manufacturing process, and that meant looking into automated assembly lines. It turns out…

Design process handmade household plastic process rotation molding

Improvisation rotomolding machine by Annika Frye

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German designer Annika Frye incorporated a cordless drill in the rotational moulding machine she built for making one-off items using a process that would normally result in an identical series From Dezeen

Blow molded kayak

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See how Prijon blow mould plastic kayaks and get a better understanding about the process.

original stormtrooper parts

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Andrew Ainsworth is a Model Maker who recently won a court battle against Lucasfilm to continue to produce Star Wars helmets using the tools he made to produce the originals for the films. His YouTube channel goes into great detail to show you how these are made. Although this is probably quite dull for most people I found it amazing how every piece is a relatively simple vacformed part. Great work. thanks john :http://johncaswelldesign.blogspot.com/

ultrasonic welding

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Ultrasonic welding is an industrial technique whereby high-frequencyultrasonic acoustic vibrations are locally applied to workpieces being held together under pressure to create a solid-stat weld. It is commonly used for plastics, and especially for joining dissimilar materials. In ultrasonic welding, there are no connective bolts, nails, soldering materials, or adhesives necessary to bind the materials together Ultrasonic welding can be used on thermoplastics or fabric . If you use it for with textile fusion, ultrasonic welding can be used for finishing (fabric edges , cut and weld) or to bond two different material…

Recycling Trash

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Single stream recycling