Automotive Headlamp Housing
Black headlamp housing with twin reflector bowls, connector apertures and adjuster pockets.
Automotive Headlamp Housing
Automotive Headlamp Housing is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Black headlamp housing with twin reflector bowls, connector apertures and adjuster pockets.
Cavity and core steel is machined on our own CNC and EDM equipment, inspected dimensionally after machining, and the electrodes are checked for dimension and surface finish before they are burnt.
Before any steel is roughed we run the filling, packing, warpage and cooling study, so the cooling layout on this tool comes out of the analysis rather than out of habit.
Key Benefits
- Engineering correspondence in English throughout the project
- CNC, EDM, grinding and CMM equipment under one roof
- Mold motion simulation on complex multi-action tooling
- Full 3D design issued in your own CAD format
Problems It Solves
- Suppliers who cannot read a mold standard written in English
- Weld lines landing on a visible face because gating was chosen for fill alone
- Side actions that collide on the first close because the sequence was never simulated
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 Headlamp 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 Headlamp Housing |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Automobile Part 2 |
| 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 Headlamp 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 Headlamp Housing — Buyer Questions
Do you run MoldFlow before building the mold for Automotive Headlamp Housing?
For mass production molds, yes. We run the practical study in four stages — filling, then packing, then warpage, then cooling — and the cooling layout is designed from the result.
Can you work to our own mold standard for Automotive Headlamp Housing?
Yes. Mold design follows your own standard where you have one, and otherwise a global standard such as DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI. Naming the standard in the enquiry avoids re-specifying components later in the design.
Who do we talk to during the project?
Our engineering team has been trained on customer mold standards and corresponds in English. Response to customers is no later than 24 hours.
Which 3D formats can you issue for Automotive Headlamp 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 Headlamp Housing
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.