Exploring Plastic Injection Molding Pilot Runs
Renaud hosts and is joined by Sofeast Group senior engineer, Paul Adams, to discuss how to go from a design to mass-producing your plastic injection molded parts, first following the proven pre-production pilot run approach to ensure risks are kept to a minimum. You'll learn what should be optimized and what should not be skipped, even if sometimes getting to market sooner seems tempting.
SECTIONS
00:00 - Greetings and introduction
01:49 - Why is an injection molding pilot run important?
05:05 - What are the steps involved?
09:53 - Why 'metal safe' is your goal after the trials.
12:39 - The supplier still needs to optimize the tooling
25:01 - Optimizing the injection mold press (machine).
34:55 - Keeping records of parameter settings helps to control the process.
39:04 - Wrapping up.
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