How We Proceed
From an injection mold order confirmed to completed, we have a standard procedure to follow, it makes both internal and our customers to be always clear about where we are, we garantee the transition of each step are easy and smooth, this is how we we start and compelte your injection mold project:
Our Seamless Manufacturing Process
From product evaluation to mold design, precision tooling, injection molding, quality inspection, and final assembly — we provide a one-stop manufacturing process to ensure every project is delivered efficiently and reliably.
Step 1, Kick off meeting, DFM report
▪ Once order confirmed and finalized 2D/3D part drawings or physical samples received from customer, project manager holds kick off meeting to review all data with mold designers and mold makers.
▪ DFM report contains all the necessary information about part design optimizaiton like proper draft angle, wall thickness analysis,warpage analysis, etc. It also determines the concept of mold design and manufacture process, mold design details will be disscused and decided such as injection machine adoptation, gating and filling method, ejection, layout of cavitation, mold parting line, cooling line. Special structure features like sliders, angle lifters, finish of mold core and cavity, engraving, etc.
▪ DFM report contains all the necessary information about part design optimizaiton like proper draft angle, wall thickness analysis,warpage analysis, etc. It also determines the concept of mold design and manufacture process, mold design details will be disscused and decided such as injection machine adoptation, gating and filling method, ejection, layout of cavitation, mold parting line, cooling line. Special structure features like sliders, angle lifters, finish of mold core and cavity, engraving, etc.
Step 2, Injection mold design
▪ After all details in DFM have been discussed through, mold design starts and will be completed and provided to customer within 2-3 days depends on the complexity and size of the mold.
▪ Mold requirements in details from the customer is welcome.
▪ Mold requirements in details from the customer is welcome.
Step 3, Mold manufacturing
▪ Send mold design to customer for approval, it might take 1-2 rounds back and forth to discuss and determine the detail depends on how much you know the injection mold, for contract molding project, you can just leave the details to us, we are responsible for the mold quality.
▪ After mold design is approved, we order mold steel, mold base and accessories for manufacturing.
▪ A process report showing all the manufacturing process plans will be submitted, we will stick to the plan and provide weekly report to keep you updated with the manufacturing process until it’s completed.
▪ Injection mold making lead time usually is 3-6 weeks depends on mold size, complexity.
▪ After mold design is approved, we order mold steel, mold base and accessories for manufacturing.
▪ A process report showing all the manufacturing process plans will be submitted, we will stick to the plan and provide weekly report to keep you updated with the manufacturing process until it’s completed.
▪ Injection mold making lead time usually is 3-6 weeks depends on mold size, complexity.
Step 4, Frist time mold trial out
▪ The first time’s mold trial tells if all the mechanisms of mold work properly, geometry of part is correct, we will verify mold cooling system, mold injection system, mold ejection system, filling performance etc.
▪ After proper modification, T1 molded plastic samples will be submitted to customer together with dimension report, injection molding parameter, sampling report, normally it is 95%+ of perfection.
▪ After proper modification, T1 molded plastic samples will be submitted to customer together with dimension report, injection molding parameter, sampling report, normally it is 95%+ of perfection.
Step 5, Improvements and second time trial out
▪ Get feedback from the customer regarding the sample verification, mostly are for functionality, appearance, dimensionally, etc. We will do mold moldification to address the mentioned issues one by one. After corrections, we will apply the texture/polishing, add engraving, remake the samples and send them for final approval.
▪ The aim is 1-2 times sampling before injection mold is approved.
▪ Sometimes part design adjustments from the end customers lead to mold modification.
▪ The aim is 1-2 times sampling before injection mold is approved.
▪ Sometimes part design adjustments from the end customers lead to mold modification.
Step 6, Thorough verification piror to shipping
▪ A thorough checking before shipping and keep it in record.
▪ Do a small automatically run and CPK report study to make sure tooling stability.
▪ Ensure no issues while the injection mold runs in our customer’s factory.
▪ Do a small automatically run and CPK report study to make sure tooling stability.
▪ Ensure no issues while the injection mold runs in our customer’s factory.
Step 7, Packing and preparation for shipping
▪ Packing the mold with wooden box, if the mold shipped by sea, pay special attention to the vacuum packing to prevent it from getting rusty.
▪ Packages include all 2d/3d mold design drawings, NC programming data, copper, spare parts, interchangeable inserts, etc.
▪ Packages include all 2d/3d mold design drawings, NC programming data, copper, spare parts, interchangeable inserts, etc.
Step 8, After serivice
▪ Secure packaging and global shipping
▪ After-sales technical support
▪ After-sales technical support