Automotive Under Hood Bracket Assembly
Wide structural bracket with a corrugated conduit run and molded-in retaining clips.
Automotive Under Hood Bracket Assembly
Automotive Under Hood Bracket Assembly is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Wide structural bracket with a corrugated conduit run and molded-in retaining clips.
3D data for this tool is issued in whichever format your own toolroom opens without translation: STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks.
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
- Design review meeting before the design reaches you
- CNC, EDM, grinding and CMM equipment under one roof
- Steel certification and hardness inspection on incoming material
- MoldFlow filling, packing, warpage and cooling on mass production tooling
Problems It Solves
- Long silences between the purchase order and the first sign of progress
- Tooling quoted without an engineering study, so the first trial is also the first analysis
- Mold base components that cannot be replaced locally once the tool is in production
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 Under Hood Bracket Assembly 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 Under Hood Bracket Assembly |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Automobile Part 7 |
| 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 Under Hood Bracket Assembly 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 Under Hood Bracket Assembly — Buyer Questions
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.
What tool life should we expect on a mold for Automotive Under Hood Bracket Assembly?
Our high quality injection molds are built for more than 1 million shots. The exact figure for your tool depends on the resin, the cycle and the part geometry, and we put it in the quotation rather than leaving it open.
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.
How long does a quotation take for Automotive Under Hood Bracket Assembly?
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 Under Hood Bracket Assembly
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.