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Do You Know The Purpose of Trial Mold at Each Stage of Injection Mold?

A good injection mold cannot do without the companionship of mold project engineers, mold design engineers, mold makers, and evaluation and measurement engineers who rack their brains day and night for the mold. Recently, we have noticed that some customers are requesting faster mold production time, more products during trial molding, and immediate entry into mass production when placing orders. We would like to share with you the meticulous craftsmanship of mold engineers through the process of mold production and testing.

Mold design stage

The optimization of finished product assembly structure, material selection, and finished product functions can only be incorporated into mold design. Mold design needs to reflect mass production quality requirements into the mold structure. Reasonable mold structure design is an indispensable and important step for stable mass production quality.

Mold making stage

Mold blanks, steel, accessory procurement, CNC programming, CNC roughing, CNC precision carving, wire cutting, electrode production, spark machining, turning milling, grinding, drilling, and rubbing all have requirements that may be familiar to everyone, but due to space limitations, we will not delve into them in depth. Let's focus on the mold making time. If the mold design goes smoothly in the early stage, it can be basically made in 25-30 days. However, if the product structure changes midway, making the mold while modifying the product structure is a "big taboo" in mold making. It's like building a house while demolishing and rebuilding, which can easily lead to a weak foundation. Repairing and repairing the mold is just as easy as building a house

Mold testing stage (trial mold)

Do you understand the purpose requirements during the trial production of various molds such as T0, T1, T2, T3, PP, and MP?

T0 trial samples

Does the mold structure meet the mold design requirements

The smaller the number of trial molds that have just been produced, the better. Only after confirming that the mold structure is correct can mass production proceed smoothly; Forcefully producing in large quantities can easily cause mold damage, dragging, and wear, increasing the need for later repair work.

T1 trial samples

Check the finished product structure, measure product dimensions, test product performance. The product dimensions need to be modified, there are omissions in the product structure, and the product appearance is incomplete.

T2 trial samples

Whether the size modification is qualified, evaluate the appearance of the product, conduct trial assembly of the finished product, and determine the quality of the product structure design immediately. The amount of product structure modification measures the level of design and research and development.

T3 trial samples

Modify the appearance of the product and evaluate whether the mold has mass production capability

The length of modification time measures the level of mold manufacturing.

PP small batch

Mass production conditions, mass production materials, qualified dimensions, excellent appearance, determine important management projects for mass production.

MP's first mass production

Strictly control quality standards, improve project management, finalize molds, and measure whether stable delivery can be sustained after entering mass production.

Do you have any understanding of the steps for trial molding? Putting more effort into product research and development, selecting materials, and optimizing the structure of finished products can reduce mold modifications in order to manufacture excellent injection molds.