Automotive Tail Lamp Lens
Two-color lens with a clear light-guide section blended into a deep red signal section.
Automotive Tail Lamp Lens
Automotive Tail Lamp Lens is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Two-color lens with a clear light-guide section blended into a deep red signal section.
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.
Material arriving for this kind of tool is inspected on receipt, with steel hardness inspection and steel certification held on file against the job.
Key Benefits
- Quotation returned within 2 working days
- ISO 9001:2015 quality management covering design, manufacture and service
- A written DFM before fabrication, so changes happen while they are still cheap
- One shop from design through trial, with no tool transfer between vendors
Problems It Solves
- Side actions that collide on the first close because the sequence was never simulated
- Weld lines landing on a visible face because gating was chosen for fill alone
- Long silences between the purchase order and the first sign of progress
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 Tail Lamp Lens 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 Tail Lamp Lens |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Automobile Part 5 |
| 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 Tail Lamp Lens 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 Tail Lamp Lens — Buyer Questions
Do you run MoldFlow before building the mold for Automotive Tail Lamp Lens?
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.
What will we receive when the mold for Automotive Tail Lamp Lens is tried?
Mold trial reports together with a sample dimension report (FAI). Those documents are what any later dimensional discussion is settled against.
Are you certified?
Yes — ISO 9001:2015, with the scope recorded on the certificate as: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts. The certificate is shown on our quality page.
How long does a quotation take for Automotive Tail Lamp Lens?
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.
Quote Automotive Tail Lamp Lens
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.