The best order is a single part with crazy qty. requirement, manufacturer only need to do same thing every day and keep making money. To meet the order’s requirement, manufacturer needs to prepare a big land/plant full of same equipment and molds. It means all equipment have same model/specification/even manufacturing date, so does the molds…. Continue reading →

Molding process is a complicated cross interaction between raw material, mold, injection molding machine (IMM), and some related equipment. There are hundreds of settings in these systems. How/where do we start?? Here discuss the process to find the most suitable molding parameter setting to process the molds, it is suggested to perform this process to… Continue reading →

Molding process preparation includes 3 aspects: raw material, mold, equipment (such as injection molding machine (IMM), temperature controller, process monitoring machine…etc.), they shall work with each other properly in order to produce good parts. At least but not limited to following items must be checked to confirm if the preparation had been done properly, it… Continue reading →

Here discuss molding parameter settings and output on the IMM which mostly considered during injection molding process. The molding parameters above are machine inputs. The following are the outputs from the machine, which are a result of the settings of the molding parameters as available on the molding machine screens.

Injection molding process is basically a process that raw material being melted, being injected and molded as a part, the equipment set could produce from one to hundreds of parts each shot/cycle depending on mold design. Since the cycle time is relatively less and the quality is keep improving, more and more parts are made by plastic… Continue reading →

Plastic part with consistent quality and behavior can be produced with consistent/stable mold status, molding process, and raw material. During the injection molding process, the melt plastic will be injected into the mold with a series mechanical movement of injection molding machine (IMM). This leads to the mold inside environment changes accordingly, in which the… Continue reading →

Generally clamping unit could be divided into: Three plate clamping unit is consisted of 3 major plates which are machine plate for mold fixed side, plate for mold moving side, Plate for providing Movement to drive plate for mold moving side. See illustration of Three plate clamping unit in Pic.-1. A later three plate clamping… Continue reading →

The injection unit consisted of following major elements: Barrel It is a cylinder where raw material changes from pellet to molten stage. To well control the temperature inside the barrel is really important during the process. This is determined by the machine manufacturer but following principle shall be followed: the temperature control should provide at… Continue reading →