Production and Mold Planning
You've likely already noticed a difference between us and other molding websites. It
generally takes years of experience and an engineering degree to really master the
intricacies of injection molding. There is no website that is going to make you an
injection molding expert, which is why it's crucial to have proper planning for
production.
Far too often people skip the planning stages and wind up wasting time and money. A
count
of inventors and entrepreneurs and their projects found a stunning and sad
statistic,
84% of customers needed to buy a second mold or redo the mold within the first year.
This major expense can be avoided by taking the time to plan the mold layout.
To use a common analogy, if you require a vehicle (mold) in order to take a trip
(production) the most important place to start is looking at the production journey
that
you will be taking, which defines the vehicle that you'll need. The common focus is
to
save money on the vehicle, however if you buy something insufficient for your
journey
you'll have to make the entire purchase again sooner rather than later.
When using an injection mold in production typically the greatest cost faced is the
time
that is needed on the injection molding machine. In light of this a mold that has a
1
cavity winds up costing about 4x the running cost of a mold that has 4 cavities
rather
than 1. This is why it's critical to plan your optimal mold usage.
To further complicate the task at hand, molds require a parts balance and certain
molds
run on certain machines.
This work is coordinated by US based engineers with years of molding and production
experience. The fee for the study is generally in the range of $180 (depending on
the
complexity of the project) and usually takes about 48 hours to complete.