Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine
Mold clamped in the molding machine during trial, with the platen and tie bars visible.
Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine
Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Mold clamped in the molding machine during trial, with the platen and tie bars visible.
3D data for this tool is issued in whichever format your own toolroom opens without translation: STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks.
The mold is tried before it leaves us and the trial report is issued with a sample dimension report, so first-article data exists before anything is packed.
Key Benefits
- Reply to every enquiry inside 24 hours
- One shop from design through trial, with no tool transfer between vendors
- Mold motion simulation on complex multi-action tooling
- Steel certification and hardness inspection on incoming material
Problems It Solves
- Warpage found at assembly rather than in the cooling study
- Mold base components that cannot be replaced locally once the tool is in production
- Tooling quoted without an engineering study, so the first trial is also the first analysis
Who It Is For
- OEMs moving a program to an Asian tooling source
- Product companies needing a tool and the engineering behind it
- Buyers replacing a tool that failed in production
- Teams needing rapid prototype tooling before committing to steel
Application Scenarios
- Two-plate and three-plate production molds
- Slide and lifter action tools
- Multi-cavity family and balanced-runner molds
- Rapid prototype molds ahead of a production tool
How the Tool Behind Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine 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 | Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | z Plastic Mold 1 |
| Category | Plastic Injection Molds |
| 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 Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine 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
Others in Plastic Injection Molds
Injection Mold with Cooling Circuit Manifolds
Mold on the bench with cooling manifolds and color-coded circuit hoses fitted.
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Injection Mold with Multi Circuit Water Manifolds
Mold fitted with several independent water circuits routed through side manifolds.
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Slide Action Injection Mold
Long mold with side slides and a multi-cavity layout set up on the bench.
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Injection Mold Assembly on Assembly Bench
Mold assembly under final fitting, with plates and inserts laid up for build.
View details →Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine — Buyer Questions
Can you handle the side actions this part needs?
Tools with several slides or lifters go through a mold motion simulation before the design review closes, so the open-to-close sequence is proven step by step rather than discovered at first trial.
How are molds packed for export?
Final mold inspection is followed by a packing inspection before the tool leaves. Ninety percent of our molds go to overseas markets, so export packing is the normal case here rather than the exception.
Is a prototype tool worth it before the production mold?
It is when the design is not yet frozen. Rapid prototype mold making is one of our listed services, priced low and built for a fast lead time, and what the trial shows feeds the DFM for the production tool.
What will we receive when the mold for Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine is tried?
Mold trial reports together with a sample dimension report (FAI). Those documents are what any later dimensional discussion is settled against.
Quote Injection Mold Mounted in Molding Machine
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.