Do You Know About These Advantages And Benefits Of Custom Injection Molding? As a manufacturing process, custom injection molding offers a number of advantages over other methods of production — including other types of molding. There’s a reason the global plastics market is expected to soar to $654.38 billion in value in the next few years. A major part of that is the extent to which plastic molding can serve a broad range of applications and uses in a huge cross-section of industries. Of course, no single manufacturing process is perfect for all applications, but here are some reasons that custom injection molding should be on your radar: Broad design flexibility. Custom injection molding affords the ability to design highly complex pieces according to the needs of the customer. While there are a number of best practices for injection molding that help to ensure efficient production and suitable part quality and…

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Waste in your injection molding process is a bad thing: that’s news to no one. As an injection molding manufacturer, of course you’re always trying to increase efficiency and reduce the amount of waste that goes into (and is produced by) any process. Yet too often, the idea of “waste” is only looked at on the surface — only as, for example, the amount of material waste in a process. In reality, there are many types of waste that can be present in manufacturing. They can all affect your production efficiency, costs (for you and your customers) and bottom line. If you’re familiar with lean manufacturing or have investigated different types of waste in the past, you may have heard the acronym “TIMWOOD.” It’s become something of an industry-standard way of remembering the seven main types of waste that may be present in production. Below, we’ll go through each letter…

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  Injection molding cycle time is likely to be one of the biggest factors in the efficiency of your process — both from a time and a cost standpoint. Of course, since time is money in any manufacturing process, what this really means is that looking into ways of reducing cycle time in your injection molding process can have a major impact on your bottom line. In order to help you address any inefficiencies and identify areas of potential improvement, the steps below include useful information on how to reduce cycle time in injection molding. The Injection molding cycle has three major steps: The injection stage (where heated material is fed via pressure into the mold and cavities) The holding or packing stage (when all material for a cycle has been fed into the mold, and continued pressure is applied to ensure that cavities are completely filled and any potential…

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