Posted on December 21, 2019, By Youde
Mold, various molds are required for industrial production. Generally speaking, it is used to make molded articles. The mold is composed of various parts, Under the action of external force, the billet becomes a part with a specific shape and size. Molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts in large volume. It is most typically used in mass-production processes where the same part is being created thousands or even millions of times in succession.
Different molds are made of different parts. It mainly completes the processing of the shape of the article by changing 
the physical state of the formed material. Any product is manufactured from a mold. It can be said that there is no product without a mold. It is widely used in the forming process of products in various industries. The mold has a specific generalization or inner cavity shape. The mold is a fine thing with a complex shape and can withstand blanks. Expansion force has high requirements for structural strength, stiffness, surface hardness, surface roughness, and machining accuracy.
The development level of mold production is one of the important signs of the level of mechanical manufacturing. The cost of solid mold manufacturing is generally very high. Large sets of molds cost thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions. Especially for medical industry, millions of molds cost is common. If the structure is unreasonable or other issues happen in the process of installing the mold, then it would be suffered very big losses. so, it essential to make prototype to confirm the appearance, structure and function first, and to ensure there is no any problems before make the mold for mass production.
Prototype, also known as samples. Prototyping is the first step to verifying the feasibility of a product. It is the most direct and effective way to find out the shortcomings and problems of the product, and making targeted improvements to the shortcomings. until there is no shortcoming in the single prototype, generally; The small-scale trial production is required, so that to find the shortcomings in the batch and improve them.
Generally, it's necessary to make prototypes when a product in design and development early stage, the first prototype is not perfect or even unusable. If you make new product directly without prototyping, once the quality is not good, all products will be scrapped, which will greatly waste manpower, material resources and time.
Rapid prototyping is a process to making a small number of samples, with short manufacturing cycles and less manpower and material resources. It can quickly find out the issues of design and improve it, providing sufficient basis for product finalization and mass production.
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