Designing a new tool for injection moulding is a highly technical and complex task dealing with precision and tight dimensions. Accuracy is crucial, and engineers are therefore, generally aiming to be as precise and perfect as possible, like hitting a bull’s-eye in darts or other similar arrow sports.
Injection moulding is a popular method in product or component production. Once you are passed the high set up costs, it becomes a very cost effective method of manufacturing. Almost every plastic part you can see is likely to have been produced in this way.
A mould, or the cavity into which the material will be poured into, can be likened to a negative of a photograph. The design of the mould or ‘tool’ as it is generally known, is very important, so too is the material selection, as for example during the cooling process the product or component may become distorted if the wrong tool material is used.
When designing a tool, engineers have to carefully consider a number of aspects, such as the product specification, materials to be used and operational constraints. Once a model is constructed it will need to be tested and reviewed before manufacture of the tool can begin.
Over the years our engineering capabilities have been utilised in the development of a variety of electro-mechanical products which have plastic injection moulded parts. This includes products from the automotive, consumer, medical and pharmaceutical sectors. We don’t profess to be a perfect darts partner, but when it comes to tool design and engineering plastic parts, we can certainly promise to be precise and thorough.
