Product customization is an ultimate opportunity to cater to your clients without altering your production chain significantly. Small changes mean the world to clients when those changes are personal. Engraving products or altering the color of a component make the product feel special to the client – and they are when made to order through [...]
While creating the plastic part drawing, the designer has the best opportunity to decide on the most suitable design for the mold and/or to make suggestions on how the product design might be modified to improve productivity and simplify the mold design; in turn, simplifying the mold design reduces mold costs. Once the mold design [...]
Many manufacturers are turning to robotics to enhance their operations. Robots can often execute manufacturing and logistical tasks more accurately than manual methods. Labor shortages are another reason an increasing number of companies are turning to robotics. Many manufacturers have found that robots often don't replace manual laborers; automation enables people to get more done. [...]
When companies are smart enough to take advantage of the expertise of their molding partners, the result is to have the most effectively molded parts possible. The value of design outsourcing experience According to field experts, poor design creates product flaws that will emerge during the fabrication process. This leads to expensive redesigns and compromises [...]
Design engineers don’t have to be fluid dynamics experts to injection mold plastic parts without a hitch. The following rules will help engineers avoid problems when designing injection-molded plastic parts: Rule 1: Keep Wall Thickness Consistent Plastic part walls must be uniform in thickness. This is the most basic design parameter, and strict adherence to [...]
Blow molds are used to produce many items that we use every day, such as drinking bottles (food and beverage industry), perfume bottles (cosmetic industry), bottles and containers for medicines (pharmaceutical industry), or bottles and containers for creams or other care products (household and care industries). The various materials used for the final products require [...]
There are all kinds of approaches to sales and marketing. They all help to some extent, but they also leave much to be desired. What’s worse is that your customers are often more focused on sourcing the cheapest molds instead of maximizing their own throughput. It seems like some customers only care about the price [...]
Mold flow simulation is a crucial part of engineering and producing molded plastics for a range of purposes. Molded products requiring custom injection should always have a simulation done before producing a prototype, as this increases the chances of a successful product. With advances in technology, the in-house engineering team of a molded plastic manufacturer [...]
Friends, if you look around you, you will see that you are surrounded by things made of plastic, and every day you buy some items in which plastic has been used. This means that the consumption of plastic is very high and it is increasing day by day. Suppose plastic is harmful to the environment [...]
The reasons for a high-gloss finish in plastic molding vary. Some examples include extreme transparency of the molded part, reduced localized corrosion or highly crack-sensitive tooling (due to design or operational stresses). Then there is the impact of mold surface finish on injection molding productivity, as the release forces of the plastic part from the [...]