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Aluminum Injection Mold Tool Life Expectancy: Factors Affecting Durability and Maintenance
Savvy businesses rely on rapidly produced prototype injection-molded parts to innovate and efficiently bring new products to market. While these molds can produce thousands of parts (even tens of thousands), they are not nearly as durable as production molds. Factors such as tooling material, design complexity, and maintenance practices affect ...
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Navigating the Overmolding Process and Complex Prototyping Challenges
The plastic overmolding process is a specialized manufacturing technique that involves molding one material over another to create a single part. This technique often adds soft-touch surfaces on hard plastics, combines different materials for aesthetic appeal, or encapsulates metal components. Overmolding is used widely across various industries, including consumer electronics, ...
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How Should I Prototype? Machined Parts, Print 3D Parts, or Fabricate a Prototype Mold
How should I prototype? Machined parts, print 3D parts, or fabricate a prototype mold Introduction Once a design engineer completes the first draft of their product design, the next step is to create a plan for how it will be fabricated, tested, and developed. There are three basic methods of prototype fabrication: 1) CNC machining, 2)
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