What is the difference between silicone sample molds and mass production molds?

In modern industrial products, many basic things cannot be separated from the processing of molds. Many materials we see in daily life, such as hardware, plastic, silicone, and other punching materials, are made using different molds. Therefore, compared to many industry professionals, the importance of molds should be known. Similarly, in the silicone industry, it is no exception. Without molds and auxiliary tools, it is impossible to complete many of our products.

In the silicone product industry, molds are the key to the entire product, and all products must be produced using molds to meet the requirements. However, silicone is different from plastic and hardware grinding tools in that it can be molded for sample making, which makes many people puzzled whether to use 3D printing or directly use production molds for sampling. Today, we will explain the different processes and methods of molds.
Due to the fact that silicone product materials belong to soft colloids and are not processed using hard adhesives, 3D printing is a drawback. However, with the maturity of 3D printing, the use of soft adhesives is gradually becoming more mature. However, the material and workmanship of 3D printed soft adhesives still cannot achieve the desired effect and texture of the finished product. While the structure alone is not a problem, the effect still needs to be evaluated through the production of molds and the processing of finished products.

The bulk mold and sample mold are the processes we need to go through. Many customers' silicone accessories cannot meet the requirements in terms of assembly and appearance, and they dare not rashly open production bulk molds. Otherwise, they are worried that the structure of the mold will not be correct after opening, and the appearance effect will not meet the requirements, resulting in poor quality of the silicone product and difficult project progress. Therefore, in the early stage of production, in order to meet the customer's appearance and structure requirements and achieve a similar fitting effect, we need to open a small mold and create a sample mold for comparison. After achieving the desired effect, we can proceed with the production of bulk molds.

The difference between the production mold and the large goods mold is that the large goods mold can produce many points in a the first mock examination, which can be more efficient in production and processing in mass production. The sample mold is used for the qualification requirements of experimental samples in the early stage. Their difference is that one is only used for sample making experiments, and the other is used for mass production of large goods. So many friends do not understand why it is not possible to directly use sample molds for mold production.