Analysis & verification on product design

1. Experience & rule-based analysis

It is a routine and must-done job to check customer product structure before mold design whether requested or not. It will help us pick up potential trouble-making points to avoid time-consuming costly modification after trial run.

A product designer is not necessary to be a mold designer at the same time. They pay more attention to appearance, form, function, and style other than mold ability. As a result, generally, it is unavoidable that many customers' drawings include un-moldable and/or trouble-making features, such as undercut and hidden features or too thick wall, etc. As mold designer and maker, we are obliged to pick out and fix all these problems.
No doubt, it will save us time and money in the long run.


2. Moldflow Analysis

We address this process for some projects, especially for some big-sized parts, because, sometimes, we need to assess the manufacturing feasibility and/or optimize mold layout beforehand. This way, we can find out problems in the early stage when the cost of change is least, instead of waiting until first trial run to find defects such as sink marks, air traps, weld lines, etc. Through simulating, analyzing, optimizing and validating plastics part and mold designs, we avoid the high cost and time delays associated to the problems undiscovered in the design stage. This is important especially for big-sized, high-cost molds.


3. Prototyping

For many projects, prototyping is an inevitable step. It will help the designer to check the functionality of their design. This will contribute to avoid the high cost and time delays when we find the product doesn't work well after trial run. We don't have in-house prototyping capability. But, it will not prevent us from handling this process for you. We have a group of suppliers who can provide us with high-quality prototypes.