How to choose your injection mold manufacturer

*Let's share the detail knowledge on how to choose your injection mold manufacturer partners:

1. The manufacturer should have a professional engineering team.

All moulds are manufactured in accordance with the engineer's design drawings. The mold drawings are designed by engineers. Good mold always comes from perfect mold design. Mold design engineers must have competent knowledge and experience in mold related fields.

A failure of mold design often causes to much modification cost or even or mold failed. So a high quality design team is very important.

In addition to mold design engineers, but also must have professional process engineers, rely on them to reasonably formulate the processing process, to achieve high efficiency, low cost mold manufacturing.

2.What is the level of machinery and equipment used by the company for mold manufacturing?

The technical level and precision of machine tools directly determine the precision, time and cost of a mold. It is hard to imagine that a crude, dilapidated machine with low precision can produce high quality molds within a specified time. Blindly pursuing low price mold is bound to be inferior quality and long cycle.

A normal mold workshop is equipped with at least 4-5 CNC, EDM, WIRE-CUT machines. To avoid the influence of machine wear, the use time of the machines used for precision machining should not exceed 5-7 years.

So suggest you to make clear what the equipment level the company have before choose it as your partner.

3.What kind mold has the company can make, and how many molds they made in a month?

A company with experience of similar mold products can avoid some mistakes. Some special products, such as threads, gears, two-color injection molding, IMD and thin-walled parts of the mold, require special machinery and processing methods. So you can save time by knowing the type of mold and how long that the company has done in advance.

4.What is the cost of a mold?

The cost of a mold includes many more factors that aren’t always measurable in terms of the actual mold build. These include mold construction techniques involving the expertise and creativity of the mold builder that can result in vastly reduced cycle times, which can equate to a tremendous manu­facturing cost savings over the life of the product.

Besides the steel, copper, hot runner and other physical objects used in the manufacture of molds, as well as the cost of machining and assembling test molds on machines, the below cost of molds must also be considered:

A) Engineering Costs

B) Rework Costs

C) Shipping Costs

D) Life of the Mold

5. Related or extended services .

Usually you not only need the manufacturer to make the mold for you, but also you want them to do some product design, prototype verification, injection molding production and some necessary assembly and packaging extension services for you. Try to complete multiple processes in one roof to save time and cost.

6. Quality control and management .

For manufacturing activities, whether it is mold processing or injection molding and assembly, a series of product standards and operation standards must be formulated and established to standardize and ensure the correct implementation of each link of production, and finally get the products with quality and performance specified by customers. Therefore, the manufacturer must have a perfect quality management system and process.

7.The manufacturing company must have an impeccable management.

You must check if the company is systematic when it comes to delivering the finished products on time and in a venue of your choice. It doesn’t matter how demanding your needs are. What matters is they can deliver it to you as promised.