Automotive Air Filter Housing
Ribbed black housing shell with sealing lip and mounting bosses around the perimeter.
Automotive Air Filter Housing
Automotive Air Filter Housing is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Ribbed black housing shell with sealing lip and mounting bosses around the perimeter.
The product surface finish review and the part and steel tolerance review both sit inside the DFM, so the finish and the tolerances are agreed in writing before the cavity is finished.
The tool behind it is designed in full 3D to your standard or to a global standard such as DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI, and the design is completed to one hundred percent detail before it is sent for your review.
Key Benefits
- Standard components to DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI so spares stay available locally
- Mold motion simulation on complex multi-action tooling
- Engineering correspondence in English throughout the project
- Full 3D design issued in your own CAD format
Problems It Solves
- Tools shipped without a final inspection, arriving damaged and undocumented
- Long silences between the purchase order and the first sign of progress
- Weld lines landing on a visible face because gating was chosen for fill alone
Who It Is For
- Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers sourcing tools out of Asia
- Lighting specialists needing optical-grade cavity finishes
- Under-hood component makers with slide and lifter heavy geometry
- Interior trim suppliers with Class-A visible surfaces
Application Scenarios
- Front and rear lighting assemblies
- Air intake and air handling systems
- Cooling and coolant circuits
- Interior trim, vents and covers
How the Tool Behind Automotive Air Filter Housing Is Built
- Design
Full 3D mold design completed to one hundred percent and checked in a design review meeting.
- DFM and MoldFlow
A written DFM for your comment, and filling, packing, warpage and cooling analysis on mass production tools.
- Machining
CNC and EDM work with steel inspected dimensionally after machining and electrodes inspected before burning.
- Trial and inspection
Mold trial with trial report and sample dimension report, then final mold and packing inspection.
Technical Data
The source material for this site records the part, its category and the photograph. Dimensions, resin grade, cavity count and tolerances are project data and are confirmed in the quotation.
| Product name | Automotive Air Filter Housing |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Automobile Part 12 |
| Category | Automotive Parts |
| Process | Plastic injection molding |
| Tooling built by | Dongguan JEC Mold Co., Limited, Dongguan, China |
| Designed tool life | More than 1 million shots |
| Mold standard | Customer standard, or DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI |
| Design data formats | STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks |
| Quality system | ISO 9001:2015 — Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts |
| Part dimensions | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Resin or alloy grade | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Cavity count | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Dimensional tolerance | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Surface finish | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Annual volume | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
What Is Checked
- Customer mold specification and requirement review and discussion during the kick-off meeting
- 3D and 2D mold design review meeting before the design is sent to you, and a final check before fabrication
- Incoming material inspection
- Steel hardness inspection and steel certification
- Electrode dimension and surface finish inspection
- Steel dimension inspection after machining
- Mold trial reports with a sample dimension report (FAI)
- Final mold inspection and packing inspection
Certification
ISO 9001:2015 — scope: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts.
Customization
Mold standard, cavity count, gating strategy, surface finish and mold base supplier are all specified per project. Tell us what your own standard requires and it is folded into the DFM rather than handled as a change later.
Compared With a Prototype Tool
A production mold for Automotive Air Filter Housing is built to run for more than 1 million shots and is documented with a trial report and a sample dimension report. A rapid prototype mold answers a different question — is the design right — at a lower price and a faster lead time, and is not built for that life. If the design is still moving, the prototype stage is usually the cheaper route into the production tool.
Rapid Prototype MoldsUse Guide
- Send 3D part data in STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks
- State the resin or alloy, the annual volume and the mold standard
- Comment on the DFM before fabrication — that is the cheapest point to change anything
- Review the trial report and sample dimension report against your own drawing before release
- Keep the mold standard on file so spares stay available locally
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View details →Automotive Air Filter Housing — Buyer Questions
What will we receive when the mold for Automotive Air Filter Housing is tried?
Mold trial reports together with a sample dimension report (FAI). Those documents are what any later dimensional discussion is settled against.
Can you supply replacement inserts for a tool already in production?
Precision components making with CNC and EDM machining is a service we sell on its own. Send the insert drawing or the 3D data and we will quote it as a component job.
How long does a quotation take for Automotive Air Filter Housing?
We return a professional mold quotation within 2 working days. Send the 3D data, the resin and the expected annual volume and that is usually enough to quote without a second round of questions.
Which 3D formats can you issue for Automotive Air Filter Housing?
We issue mold design data in STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks. Tell us which one your toolroom opens natively and we will work in that.
Quote Automotive Air Filter Housing
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.