MA Pocket Guide

Turn prints into production-ready processes with MA PocketGuide, a purpose-built tool for injection molding professionals who need to build, validate, and optimize setups with confidence. From initial setup to final release, the app brings structure to the entire workflow, allowing you to import PDFs, images, or scanned prints and extract key dimensions and metadata using on-device intelligence to generate a process-ready starting point. Core process tools allow you to calculate fill time, cycle time, cooling time, gate freeze, normalization, fill balance, and Ppk capability so you can move from guesswork to repeatable, data-driven results. Machine setup tools help you properly match your process to your equipment with calculations for clamp tonnage, shot size, barrel usage, intensification ratio, dryer throughput, dryer capacity, and mold temperature sizing, reducing the risk of mismatched setups before production begins. Quick calculators provide fast access to essential calculations, minimizing manual math and reducing errors during real-time decision-making on the floor. The defect guide helps identify and troubleshoot common molding issues such as short shots, flash, splay, burn marks, warping, sink marks, voids, and flow lines, providing clear insight into causes and corrective actions so problems can be addressed efficiently. Production release tools introduce a structured validation process with checklist-driven controls, key metric tracking, and clear risk indicators to ensure process stability before full-scale production, helping prevent costly startup failures. The Setup Vault allows you to capture and store proven “golden” process records, including setup data, notes, and validation results, so successful runs can be reused and standardized across future jobs. Mold design support tools provide additional guidance with shrink and cavity calculations, runner sizing, venting considerations, material references, and thermal expansion insights to support better upstream decisions. MA PocketGuide is designed specifically for technicians, engineers, and process specialists, delivering a fast, focused, and fully on-device experience with no cloud dependency required, giving you reliable performance where it matters most. Whether you are launching a new mold or refining an existing process, MA PocketGuide provides the structure, tools, and confidence needed to reduce startup time, eliminate trial-and-error, prevent defects, and build repeatable processes that hold in real production environments.