Transparent plastic prototype manufacturing

Transparent plastic prototype manufacturing

There are a few process to have transparent plastic prototype manufacturing as following:

• CNC machining process with PMMA


• Plastic casting process


• SLA process


• 3D printing

We can choose transparent plastic prototype manufacturing process based on your demand such as qualities, use and function etc.

CNC transparent plastic prototype manufacturing

This is common widely use transparent plastic prototype manufacturing process. If you need high quality transparent plastic prototype such as plastic lenses, transparent cover and transparent enclosure, transparent enclosure and transparent led lamp enclosure etc. You can choose PMMA CNC machining process.

Sure it is also okay to machining with polycarbonate , but the polishing process is more difficult to control than PMMA, we did not suggest to use this resin to make transparent plastic prototype for  lens or high smooth transparent part.

Plastic casting process

This process to make the RTV silicone mold to cast plastic prototype. You can lean more from our another blog, post is plastic casting prototype . You can also review resin casting on Wikipedia.org.

Plastic casting transparent prototype can be polished too, but it still worse than PMMA CNC machining prototype.

This process can make transparent plastic prototype, the material is not really resin what we used for injection molding, it is cast two kinds of liquid chemical compound into silicone mold to form plastic parts. If you need plastic parts with FDA, please do not consider this process.

Also plastic casting prototype surface finishing is worse than the PMMA CNC machining process, if you need high quality smooth transparent parts, please do not use this process.

Transparent plastic casting prototype is cheapest process to copy transparent parts. Also it can be copied complex transparent plastic prototypes.

SLA to have transparent plastic prototype

SLA rapid prototyping is a discrete layered, layer by layer stacking technology, the direct use of three-dimensional computer data is implemented as a prototype of the product, the more mature laser technology both SLA and SLS rapid prototyping, which the SLA the main material for the photosensitive resin.

SLA rapid prototype’s advantages:

A smooth surface, and good quality.

Forming high precision, and accuracy of 0.1mm;

Can be made very fine details and molding of thin-walled structures, high precision, easy post-processing.

Processing cycle is short, usually it is three days.

SLA transparent prototype manufacturing is weaker than the PMMA CNC machining prototype and transparent plastic casting prototype. Also it is more expensive than both of transparent prototypes. SLA transparent manufacturing process can have complex plastic prototype even if you have lots of undercuts.

3D printing transparent plastic prototype manufacturing

Here we just call the desktop 3D printing prototype. Generally, this process can not get a high quality smooth surface finishing transparent prototype. But the prototype is stronger than plastic casting one.

As the technique developing, we hope this process can be widely use to copy transparent plastic parts. Also right now this process is more expensive than plastic casting prototype manufacturing.

Transparent plastic prototype manufacturing

Turnkey solution to control plastic injection molding tolerance 1

Turnkey solution to control plastic injection molding tolerance

There are lots of people are talking about that how to control the tolerance for plastic molding. I combine my experience with a few exporter who have more than 20 years experience for molding industry. I hope following information will be very useful for you.

What will affect the plastic injection molding tolerance

• Plastic injection molding resin


• Mold manufacturing & injection molding project management including engineers, sales & communication etc.


• Plastic injection mold machining accurate


• Mold design concept


• Molding parameter


• Injection molding machine quality including brand, local or import one


• Injection molding machine selection including machine size, screw diameter, injection volume and clamping force etc.


• Quality control including inspection of mold components, electrode and plastic products

First of all we talk about the mold manufacturing & injection molding project management

Lots of people miss to control this on the plastic product tolerance. This is first process we should control the tolerance. We should control from the samples if you are mold factory, if you are mold or plastic product buyer, you should control this on the information offer process.

What we should offer to mold manufacturing factory and molding factory or ask from buyer to control the tolerance?

Plastic product 2D drawing: There should be tolerance label for all of the dimensions. This is target what customer need to reach. If you have surface finishing and secondary process for this products, please offer this information on the 2D drawing. Also please throw away the habit to talk to your mold manufacturing supplier for this kind of requirement on email. If not, you have risky to have your supplier to miss information if the one you are working have no good project management.

Plastic product 3D drawing : Have this drawing to provide to your plastic mold maker, then they check the details of the plastic product on the drawing. Also if your good and professional mold supplier limited on the capability, they will reply you.

I suggest you to read plastic injection mold life on our blog to know more about that the mold life for the tolerance and cost. Normally the accurate mold should be made with through hardness core and cavity. Please offer mold life for mold manufacturer.

Above process is to control the plastic product tolerance during the quotation, this is the communication process, and is the basic process to have tolerance under control.

How Seasky Tooling to control the tolerance on the quotation process?

• Lessons for all of the salesman to understand what we should ask from customer


• what we should ask based on different customers


• We clean individual cases up during our service, use this to help you and our salesman


• We have easy understanding form to collect customer demand to our CRM


• Professional engineers coordinate with salesman to check and study the information from you


• Also most of salesman have mold engineer experience

Based on above, we make sure we can get the enough information from you to proceed the quotation and assure you have no risky to miss the tolerance control.

Control the tolerance on different plastic resin

This is one of most important process to control the tolerance.  Different resin on injection molding with different dimension even if it is the same injection mold due to different resin with different shrinkage.

For the POM, PP and PE etc resin, they have big shrinkage, it is more difficult to control tolerance than PC, ABS, Nylon with glass fiber and PC/ABS etc. Normally PC, ABS and ASA etc. plastic resin with shrinkage lower than 6 ‰ is easier to control a few dimensions with +/-0.02 mm, assure it is possible to control to more accurate tolerance for a few dimension. We do not suggest to use the high shrinkage resin to have accurate plastic parts.

Control the tolerance on plastic mold design process

This is one of whole process to check the information provide by customer and manufacture the information on plastic mold design and input on plastic mold factory for mold manufacturing. Your mold supplier should consider following for the mold design and even more than these:

• Plastic resin shrinkage


• Plastic product gate location


• Safe steel for accurate dimensions


• Use the inserts as possible for the accurate dimensions


• Use the inserts as possible for the easy breaking feature of mold


• Consider the suitable injection molding machine


• Learn the plastic resin specification and input this on the mold design


• Consider the molding parameter during the mold design


• Prepare the solution to prevent the deform, short shot, burning etc. common issue during injection molding


• Mold designer have full check list to check the mold design even if you think you are very  professional


• Run the mold flow to test the mold design and plastic product design


• Optimize the mold design and plastic product design

Control the tolerance on plastic mold manufacturing process

• Choose the right process to manufacture plastic mold components


• Inspect plastic mold components including the electrodes and mold inserts


• Assure the plastic mold components is accurate


• Relieve the stress for the large mold core, cavity or mold plates after manufacturing


• Measure the plastic mold components and record


• Inspect plastic products dimensions after injection molding trial and record


• Measure deviated dimensions on the mold after mold trial. Find the clue to improve the dimensions on the mold


• Choose the right injection machine according to your injection mold including choose the right screw of injection machine based on the resin and plastic part, clamping force, injection volume, Min-Max mould thickness and ejector stroke etc.


• Record the molding parameter during mold trial, not only the parameter on the injection machine. You should also record the mold temperature, test the actual temperature of mold and set up temperature of injection machine.

Plastic injection molding tolerance control

If the mold is released for mass production, you should also control the tolerance of the injection molding parts. First of all you have to control the whole dimension, at least you should measure the biggest length,width and height of product. If this have no big change, this means your injection parameter should be correct probably.

Give more importance on the first 100 shots once you start the production. Once the mold running a few hours, the parameter should be not the same, you should check the tolerance, this is the reason why we suggest to check large size and accurate dimensions each hour. Please noted the mold trial is different as the production. Even if you got a good shot on mold trail, it is not the case you can get a good shot on long time production. Please check and record, you will learn lots of information.

Also you should measure the accurate dimension at least per hour to make sure it is correct. You can measure it more frequent based on your production quality control.

You should also check the following things during injection molding

• Plastic injection molding parts color


• Plastic injection molding parts surface finishing


• Plastic injection molding parts small feature including ultrasonic welding line, small bosses, small posts and small ribs etc.

Turnkey solution to control plastic injection molding tolerance 1

Plastic electronic enclosure

Plastic electronic enclosure

Seasky Tooling offer custom plastic electronic enclosure manufacturing. We offer following service:

• Custom plastic electronic enclosure design based your sketch and your idea


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure budget analysis


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure design for manufacture analysis


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure prototype manufacturing


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure injection mold manufacturing


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure injection molding


• Custom plastic electronic enclosure assembly and package


• No MOQ for custom plastic electronic enclosure manufacturing


• Reply your inquiry in 12 hours.

Custom plastic electronic enclosure prototype manufacturing

Support to choose most reliable and reasonable solution for custom plastic electronic enclosure prototype manufacturing. Lead time from 3 to 7days based your design. Offer the quotation to you within two days.

Custom plastic cases for electronics mold manufacturing

• Report to your every process for custom plastic electronic enclosure manufacturing progress


• Mold flow simulation for injection molding to find all of possible for plastic product design and mold design.


• Weekly report with picture for custom plastic electronic enclosure mold manufacturing.


• 2D and 3D mold drawing for your approval before custom plastic electronic enclosure mold manufacturing


• Also we offer easy understand design for manufacture report to communicate for the mold concept and find out the possible issue of product design


• Molding parameter report for custom plastic electronic enclosure molding trial


• Samples inspection report


• Injection mold trial video


• If you have lots of knowledge for mold industry, we also have easy communication solution to satisfy and communicate with you

Custom plastic electronic enclosure injection molding manufacturing

• Various color as per your samples or RAL, or Pantone for custom plastic electronic enclosure manufacturing


• Specializing in thermoplastic injection molding with all type of thermoplastic including ABS(with glass fill), Polystyrene, Polypropylene(with glass fill), Polyethylene(with glass fill), Polystyrene, Acrylic, Acetal, Nylon(with glass fill), PBT(wih glass fill), ASA, PVC, CPVC, UPVC, PC(with glass fill), PC/ABS, PPS, PPA, Elastomers, PPO, POM etc.


• Surface finishing for custom plastic electronic enclosure molding manufacturing parts: Texture(Mold Tech, Yick-Sang etc.), silk-screen printing, painting and plate etc.


• Custom package or bulk package are welcome


• Rely all of your emails in 24 hours. You can call us any time on our working time(Speaking in English)

Custom plastic electronic enclosure trade term

• EXW, FCA ShenZhen, FOB ShenZhen, FOB HongKong, CIF, DDU

Plastic electronic enclosure

Qualified mold supplier or just low cost mold supplier,Choice lead to succeed

Qualified mold supplier or just low cost mold supplier,Choice lead to succeed

Till now, I Hedy worked for mold manufacturing and molding international business 9 years. I discussed lots of inquiry with different customers. During the communication, I have the attitude to solve the problem of what customers faced with the other suppliers or offer hands to support for customers’ plastic product development. I also faced the situation what they ask the price lower than the plastic molding resin, but it is low probability to face the ask the price less than the mold steel[/tooltip].

I also understand sometimes you request the cost less than the resin cost for your product, normally you should choose some of equivalent resin to reach your demand or your plastic product, if there is no this kind of resin and your mold supplier offer the cost than the resin, then it is risky, then what kind of risky, one of reason maybe the molding supplier is talker.

I also hate someone to offer the high price and  himself believes that  their quality and lead time is the best. We are always to learn the solution the reduce the cost without affect the quality even if it is our competitor, we would like to learn.

What the qualified mold supplier can help you and what will be the qualified mold supplier?

Qualified mold supplier always give importance on the details to improve the customer experience and have good time control!

Time is also the cost, lots of friends miss to evaluate this during the mold supplier audit.  We can not just evaluate the lead time on the quotation what the mould supplier offered. After the T1, the mold supplier also should have the very good capability and time control to improve the mold defect or have the mold modification.

The qualified mold supplier always give importance on  the details to short time, improve the quality and save time for customers. This is to improve the customer purchase experience. For example, qualified mold suppliers always reply your email on time and also mentioned what you missed to offer for them to proceed injection mold manufacturing or injection molding. Qualified mold company will always save your files and their files for the mold manufacturing and injection molding regularly, and it is easy and very fast to offer the document what you need. Qualified mold factory will always listen your suggestion or ask your suggestion or feedback to improve their service to support you.

Exchange information faster as time goes on for injection mold company

Exchange information including the exchange the ideals for your product, mold design and data and files as well as injection mold company inner management. These things will go faster and have to be like this. This is the time control on communication and quality.

For example, the ERP system is to reduce the repeat work, short the communication time, streamline and standardize working flow and make the date more useful etc. This is also to short the time.

Long term cooperation, companies have the choice to work together have long term cooperation.  The two company will understand each other for the product development, communication solution, mold design, mold manufacturing, qualify, lead time and shipping etc.  The time to understand each other save the time to communicate in future. The two company will be like one company. Deep cooperation and resource integration will make you and your company powerful.

Qualified mold supplier or just low cost mold supplier,Choice lead to succeed

Plastic product manufacturing based your draft

Plastic product manufacturing based your draft

If you have the plastic product manufacturing and can offer the draft and sketch, also you can not offer the samples. Then below instruction will be helpful for you.

You can offer  following information for plastic product manufacturing quotation

• Plastic product draft in PDF or JPG etc.


• If there is more than one product, please do not have all of the product draft on one page, please have one product draft on one page.


• How many piece you need to order each time for the plastic product manufacturing


• Tell us the material for the plastic product, if you do not know, please let us know how you will use this plastic product. You can offer document or video to describe. Then we can have the suggestion for the resin to use for plastic product manufacturing.


• If you have more than one piece of plastic products, you can offer a bill of material. You can have the name, dosage, your idea and description for each part.


• You had better to estimate a whole demand for this plastic product. This is useful for us to choose the mold steel or plastic product manufacturing process. Also this will affect the cost of the plastic product.


• If you have trouble to tell us how many piece you need order, but you just know how much you will invest this product. You may let us know this information.  Then we can tell you if your invest is enough to start the project.


• You can have the package information for us. You can also search the picture reference to have instruction for us to think of  the package. Sure we can also offer reference based your words for the package.


• You can consider the package after the plastic product manufacturing and during plastic product manufacturing. We can offer the package cost separately.

Plastic product manufacturing process

• We can offer the plastic product design based on your draft. If it is simple design, we will not charge you.


• We will send the 3D drawing for your approval


• We can offer the plastic prototype for your approval. This will have cost


• We will offer design for manufacturing analysis before mold design, simple and easy understand way to help you understand the mold concept and what the molding process to have the plastic product manufacturing.


• We will offer the weekly report for the mold manufacturing


• Updated report and schedule each week for you for production


• You can inquiry the schedule during manufacturing, we will reply you in 24 hours.

Trade term for plastic product manufacturing

 EXW, FCA ShenZhen, FOB ShenZhen, FOB HongKong, CIF, DDU.

 

Plastic product manufacturing based your draft

Custom plastic molding company

Custom plastic molding company

Seasky Tooling is China Custom plastic molding company working for custom plastic molding manufacturing and plastic mold manufacturing for medical device, automotive, medical, telecommunications, electronics, computer, industrial, biomedical, construction and consumer industries etc.

Plastic mold manufacturing in China custom plastic molding company Seasky Tooling

• Free Charge of DFM analysis with plastic mold quotation, you will have manufacturing solution during your plastic injection mold inquiry process.


• Reply your plastic molding manufacturing and plastic mold manufacturing inquiry within 12hours.


• Mold flow analysis before the plastic mold design and plastic mold manufacturing to find out all of the possible issue to prevent


• Weekly report with picture for plastic mold manufacturing, you will understand the plastic mold manufacturing progress each week with clear picture and time line


• Mold trial report with video to record, molding parameter, plastic injection molding product dimension report


• Replied all of your emails during the plastic mold manufacturing and plastic molding manufacturing within 24hours, generally you will get back answer in one working day.


• Most of engineers in Seasky Tooling worked for plastic mold industry more then 1o years


• Working for western plastic mold manufacturing and plastic molding manufacturing more than 13 years


• Details plastic mold manufacturing document to offer if you need the injection mold to do production in your plant.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Plastic molding manufacturing in China custom plastic molding company Seasky Tooling

• Various color as per your samples or RAL, or Pantone for plastic molding manufacturing plastic product


• Specializing in thermoplastic injection molding with all type of thermoplastic including ABS(with glass fill), Polystyrene, Polypropylene(with glass fill), Polyethylene(with glass fill), Polystyrene, Acrylic,, Acetal, Nylon(with glass fill), PBT(wih glass fill), ASA, PVC, CPVC, UPVC, PC(with glass fill), PC/ABS, PPS, PPA, Elastomers, PPO, POM etc.


• Surface finishing for custom plastic molding manufacturing parts: Texture(Mold Tech, Yick-Sang etc.), silk-screen printing, painting and plate etc.


• Custom package or bulk package are welcome

Plastic injection molding manufacturing and plastic mold manufacturing trade term

• EXW, FCA ShenZhen, FOB ShenZhen, FOB HongKong, CIF, DDU

Custom plastic molding company

Injection molded plastic manufacturer

Injection molded plastic manufacturer

Seasky Tooling is China injection molded plastic manufacturer offer plastic injection mold manufacturing and plastic injection molding for global market.

Injection molded plastic manufacturing service

• Automotive plastic parts


• Electronic plastic products


• Electronic plastic products


• Household plastic products


• Home appliance plastic products


• Medical device plastic products


• Instrument gauge meter plastic part


• Plastic tube fitting parts etc.

Injection mold manufacturing service for

• Automotive plastic parts


• Electronic plastic products


• Electronic plastic products


• Household plastic products


• Home appliance plastic products


• Medical device plastic products


• Instrument gauge meter plastic part


• Plastic tube fitting parts etc.

Why chose injection molded plastic manufacturer Seasky Tooling for mold making?

• Plastic prototype manufacturing to prove your design.


• Reply your inquiry in 12 hours.


• Support your to choose the most reasonable and reliable solution for injection molded plastic manufacturing.


• 13+ years mold manufacturing and injection molding experience for international market.


• Design For Manufacture analysis report for your injection molded plastic product.


• Mold flow simulation for injection molding to find all of possible for plastic product design and mold design.


• Most of plastic product injection mold designer have more than ten years experience.


• Weekly report with picture for plastic injection mold manufacturing.


• Molding parameter for each plastic injection mold trial.


• Injection mold trial video.


• Injection plastic products dimension report.


• Mold base certification, mold steel certification, heat treatment certification.


• Professional project manager who speak English work together with you through out of your order.

Why choose injection molded plastic manufacturer Seasky Tooling for injection molding?

• Strict quality control during plastic injection production


• Report you plastic production manufacturing progress


• Reply all of your emails in 24 hours, normally we can reply in same working day when we receive your email


• No MOQ for custom plastic injection manufacturing


• Custom package or bulk package are welcome

Specializing in thermoplastic molding  with all type of thermoplastic including,

• ABS(with glass fill), Polystyrene, Polypropylene(with glass fill), Polyethylene(with glass fill),


• Polystyrene, Acrylic,, Acetal, Nylon(with glass fill), PBT(wih glass fill), ASA,


• PVC, CPVC, UPVC, PC(with glass fill), PC/ABS, PPS, Rubber, PPO, POM etc.

Trade term for injection molded plastic manufacturing & mold making

 EXW, FCA ShenZhen, FOB ShenZhen, FOB HongKong, CIF, DDU.

Injection molded plastic manufacturer