Silicone products why to open the sample mold first?

Many customers who do not know much about silicone products often ask a question, that is, "Silicone products have production molds, why do you want to open sample molds?" Why waste time and effort to open another set of sample molds? But for the sample mold, it is a very important link before production.

The necessity of opening the test mold is analyzed from two angles:

1. Customers
When the customer develops and designs a new silicone product, we may still have some unknowns about this new product, such as whether the performance structure meets the expected use effect. At this time, it is necessary to test the mold proofing, rather than directly open the large mold, which can solve the customer's sample requirements for the silicone products, but also save the cost of the customer, and for us to better scientific and effective solution to customer problems.

2. Silicone manufacturers
The first test mold can reduce the risk of mold opening of the silicone mold, and occasional repair may not have much impact on the mold, but too much repair will affect the subsequent production of the mold, because the more times the mold is repaired, the durability of the mold itself will not be bad. If the sample mold is first opened to determine the size and structure of the product, then in the formal mass production time, just according to the design of the sample mold directly set on the mass production mold, we can open it at one time to achieve the desired effect, effectively reduce the number of corrections of the mass production mold, and also ensure the quality requirements of silicone products.
Sometimes when the size structure of the silicone products sent by the customer is not very accurate or completely determined, we usually use the sample mold to develop, which will be very convenient for the modification of the size structure of the silicone products in the later period. In the actual communication, we do not often encounter that some customers require mold opening but there is no drawing file, so we can only make proof (sample mold opening), use the sample to measure the product structure and size data, re-draw the data measured by the sample data, and then open the mold. However, the data obtained through data measurement may have errors in general. Only by using samples to open molds can we ensure that the number of changes in production molds is reduced. In addition, after the customer puts forward the requirement of product detailed drawing file to open the mold, the mold will often be modified in the process of opening the mold. At this time, the sample mold is a good way, just like we write the report, the formal report is not allowed to have any mistakes, first we have to make a draft on the draft paper, and then write the report formally. If there are any mistakes in the report, we will rewrite it. Now the sample mold is equivalent to the paper for the draft, and the formal report paper is equivalent to the silicone mold for mass production, and the silicone product sample mold can facilitate the modification of the mold product. Finally, the production price of the sample mold is much lower than that of the production mold. Therefore, if the mold is scrapped due to the modification of the mold, the sample mold is also a way to reduce the cost of mold opening for the company and customers because of its lower cost. If the production mold is directly opened, it is not worth the loss if the damage leads to scrap.

The difference between sample mold and large mold is:

1, the number of holes opened by the sample mold is less, the use of templates is less, and the processing time is short, so the cost is relatively small and the efficiency is high.

2, the opening of the sample mold can also bring some other benefits, such as even if the product structure is not confirmed for the first time, it is more convenient to modify the mold, after modification, you can immediately confirm the sample, so as to shorten the time.

3. Because of the low cost, the risk can be reduced by opening the sample mold first. If you directly open the large mold, the first time can not confirm the sample, with the modified mold production of products will bring a lot of quality problems, in this case, the mold will only be more and more bad, the more repair is not conducive to production. Therefore, the sample mold is generally opened first for product confirmation, and then the large mold is opened after there is no problem.

Mold customization process:

1, by the customer to provide 2D/3D drawing files or sample material (when providing the sample material, the custom manufacturer to copy the physical 3D drawing files);

2, mold room master according to 3D drawings to design mold processing drawings;

3, the silicone processing plant to take the sample mold proofing, the sample to the customer for confirmation;

4. After sample confirmation, open large mold for small batch production, mass production after product confirmation;