How Injection Molding Tooling Design Ensures Your Project Runs Smoothly

When you are starting an injection molding or structural foam molding project, you want to ensure that your products will be of the highest quality. One of the ways a trusted structural foam molding or injection molding partner will ensure the success and quality of your product is by creating all of the structural foam and injection molding tooling. Let’s explore some of the ways injection molding tooling design can ensure the quality of your products and make the process run smoothly.

The Benefits of Structural Foam and Injection Molding Tooling Design

Improved Product Quality

Since your manufacturer will be creating and designing your injection and structural foam molding tooling, they will have full control over the quality. They will be able to take all of your specifications into consideration, including tolerances and the plastics you are using to create the tooling your project needs.

Smoother Production Processes

If something goes wrong during your manufacturing process, your manufacturer will be able to reassess your tooling design. They also have the equipment needed to make any changes to your tooling in-house, saving time and money on shipping your tooling to another manufacturer and waiting for them to produce the tooling.

Shorter Lead Times

Since your manufacturer will design and create your tooling in-house, you don’t have to spend time or money finding another manufacturer strictly for tooling. You also wouldn’t have to find transportation to and from each manufacturer. This can help reduce lead times since the tooling is already in the same location as production, so your products can be created as soon as your tooling is finished.

Port Erie’s Structural Foam and Injection Molding Tooling Design Services

When you partner with Port Erie for your structural foam and injection molding services, a skilled plastic engineer will be added to your project. The engineer will work with you throughout the production process to provide you with support until your product is to its final destination.

To start, your engineer will meet with you and the tooling manager to gain a good understanding of your project. After that, the engineer and the tooling manager will review 3D models and compile advice on how to improve the design of the product and your tooling to make production more efficient and yield a higher quality product.

Once you have reviewed the changes and approved them, the tooling manager and engineer will be able to finalize the tooling design. This part of the process includes evaluating if more cost-effective options for tooling are appropriate for your project, further saving you money.

With Port Erie’s full-service in-house tool room, we can create the tooling needed for all of your projects. Our team has the skill and equipment needed to create tooling through CNC milling, grinding, turning, drilling, welding, and more. We also have the capabilities needed to create various types of molds:

• Single cavity
• Multi-cavity
• Structural foam molds
• Insert molds
• Over molds
• Hot runners

Our team also offers tooling transfer services where you transfer your existing tooling to our facilities. We will then inspect the tooling and identify any potential issues with the design or any damage we see and from there make the necessary repairs or adjustments. After, we will complete verification testing of your tooling to make sure it is up to our quality and safety standards.

Partner with Port Erie for Your Structural Foam and Injection Molding Tooling Design Services and Production

In addition to our extensive tooling services, we also offer structural foam molding and injection molding services. Once your product is produced, we also can help you with any of your warehousing or distribution needs.

Reach out to our team today to get started.