Injection mold customization can be roughly divided into the following steps:

1. Process analysis of plastic products.

Before the mold design, the designer should fully analyze and study whether the plastic product conforms to the injection molding processing principle, and needs to negotiate with the product designer carefully, and a consensus has been reached. This includes necessary discussions on the geometric shape, dimensional accuracy and appearance requirements of the product, and try to avoid unnecessary complexity in mold manufacturing.

2. Mould structure design.

A set of high-quality injection molds requires not only good processing equipment and skilled injection mold manufacturing workers, but also a very important factor is to have a good mold design. Especially for complex molds, the quality of the mold design accounts for the quality of the mold. More than 80%. An excellent mold design is: on the premise of meeting the requirements of the customers, the processing cost is low, the processing difficulty is small, and the processing time is short.

To do this, it is necessary not only to fully digest the customer's requirements, but also to have an understanding of the injection molding machine, mold structure, processing technology, and the mold factory's own processing capabilities. Therefore, to improve the level of mold design, the following points should be done:

1. Understand every detail in the design of each mold and understand the purpose of each part in the mold.

2. When designing, refer to previous similar designs, and understand the situation in its mold processing and product production, and learn from the experience and lessons.

3. Learn more about the working process of the injection molding machine to deepen the relationship between the mold and the injection molding machine.

4. Under the factory, understand the process of processed products, and recognize the characteristics and limitations of each type of processing.

5. Understand the results of mold trial and mold modification of the mold designed by yourself, and learn lessons.

6. In the design, try to use the more successful mold structure before.

7. Learn more about the impact of mold water on products.

8. Research some special mold structures and understand the latest mold technology.

3. Determine the mold material and select standard parts.

Before the injection mold is processed, the mold material must be selected. In addition to considering the accuracy and quality of the product, it must also be combined with the actual processing and heat treatment capabilities of the mold factory to give the correct choice. In addition, in order to shorten the manufacturing cycle, use existing standard parts as much as possible.

4. Parts processing and mold assembly.

Except for the best structure and reasonable tolerance matching, the precision of the mold is very important for the part processing and mold assembly. Therefore, the choice of processing accuracy and processing method occupies an absolute dominant position in mold manufacturing.

The dimensional error of molded products is mainly composed of the following parts:

1. The manufacturing error of the mold is about 1/3

2. The error caused by mold wear is about 1/6

3. The error caused by uneven shrinkage of molded parts is about 1/3

4. The error caused by the inconsistency between the scheduled contraction and the actual contraction is about 1/6

Total error=(1)+(2)+(3)+(4)

Therefore, in order to reduce mold manufacturing errors, the machining accuracy should be improved first. With the use of CNC machine tools, this problem has been well controlled. In addition, in order to prevent errors caused by mold wear and deformation, the cavity, core and other key parts should be quenched in molds with high processing accuracy and large product output. In the medium and large molds, in order to save materials and facilitate processing and heat treatment, the mosaic structure should be adopted as much as possible in the mold design.

In order to solve the error caused by uneven shrinkage of the molded part and the inconsistency between the predetermined shrinkage and the actual shrinkage, 1/3 of the product tolerance is generally selected during mold manufacturing as the manufacturing tolerance of the mold. Large adjustment room to solve the error caused by the molding process.

Five, try out the mold.

A set of molds only completes 70% to 80% of the entire manufacturing process from design to assembly. The error caused by the inconsistency between the predetermined shrinkage and the actual shrinkage, whether the demolding is smooth or not, how the cooling effect is, especially the influence of the size, position, and shape of the gate on the accuracy and appearance of the product, must be tested by mold trial. Therefore, mold trial is an indispensable step to check whether the mold is qualified and select the best molding process.