The Product Development Technology Station provides a cost effective injection moulding solution for prototype moulding or limited run production. This is especially useful when a client requires low numbers of a new plastic product for testing purposes or market research in the final material.
Moulds like these are used for products such as enclosures for electronic devices, plastic screws, radio handles, fittings and brackets. Plastic products intended for medical applications also need to be tested in final material to be given CE certification.
A low cost injection mould solution is made possible, by catering for various clients or products, through using only one mould base. Each product has its own set of cavity and core inserts, support plate and ejector pin inserts. Therefore changing the product design during the mould development process will have much lower cost implications than conventional tooling. It allows the client to only invest in mould inserts and not the entire mould base.
Clients can therefore make changes to the design or product, without replacing expensive cavity plates. The cavity inserts are machined from aluminium, which cuts down on machine time when compared to tool steel.
It also reduces the capital risk for product developers, by providing a viable alternative for the manufacturing of injection moulded products.