ALNO Guidelines to Injection moulding (Part 1)

Injection molding

Injection molding, a very simple way to mass produce plastic parts but can also be a very tedious and time-consuming task. When you want a new plastic part through injection molding, ALNO product services provides a comprehensive injection molding solution. Before we make your mold however there are a few guidelines we ask you follow to ensure a high quality mold that can last you the entire life that you want to sell your plastic injection molded product.

Mold Size

Please communicate how large you want your part to be early into the manufacturing process. Our machines provide a large range of solutions but there are some limitations to the size of the mold that we can produce. Depth of the part, degrees for draft (angle) are also important considerations. You must also take note that deeper parts may be limited to a smaller outline.

Drafting the mold

The draft is a taper that needs to be applied to the faces of the part to stop it from being parallel to the motion of the opening of the mold. This keeps the part from being damaged due to scraping as the part is ejected out of the mold. Some draft recommendations are as follows:

• 0.5 degrees on all vertical faces is strongly recommended
• 2 degrees works well as a standard solution and in most circumstances
• 3 degrees is an industry minimum for when metal slides on metal
• 3 degrees is the recommended requirement for a light texture
• 5 or more degrees is the recommended requirement for a heavy texture

Tolerances for your injection molding part

For all of your injection molding needs at ALNO Product Services we can maintain high machining tolerances with an included resin tolerance, contact us or visit our website for more details.

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What is Design? - ALNO Product Services - West Gosford

What is Design?

Design unofficially refers to a proposal for the construction of something in most cases the better designs are a calibration of minds where ideas are generated this process is generally at a high level intellectually or refers to the process of creating such a proposal. At the lower levels of intellectual design, the design just exists and this can be produced as simply by hitting something with a hammer or through construction. This lower level of design generally has less focus on calibration and is generally formed by a single individual in many cases fails to meet the design intent.

Designing general requires consideration of one or in most cases a combination of the following:

Forrn aesthetic appeal styling

Purpose function ergonomics

Cost Economic Factors associated in construction or manufacturing unit cost price

Process of manufacture or construction

Sociopolitical - interaction of social and political factors

Materials and Engineering – structural strength and material properties

These design choices are generally defined in a design brief by the client prior to beginning the design process. The design brief is what the design team keeps in mind throughout the process of deriving compromises of the design choices. Communication of the design compromises is generally communicated through a sketch or a 3 dimensional solid model. The latest solid modeling tools offer fast and costs effective methods of communicating a design to the team and or client.

Anthony@ALNO

ALNO Product Services

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Solidworks Design Consultants

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Professional tool makers that use SolidWorks design tools to produce 3 dimensional models prior to detailing drawings which has the following benefits:

• Ensures that a design goes together before detailed drafting.
• Allows the client to confirm that the design is what they had in mind.
• Gives the client an opportunity to enhance the design ahead of committing to the detailing process.

SolidWorks enables our team and clients to quickly transform new ideas into great products, tools and / or manufacturing processes. Through an intuitive interface SolidWorks offers powerful design capabilities that drive both smarter and faster design development across all spectra's which reduces costs that empowers our company to offer a more streamline customer focused service. Applying these powerful design tools results in clear communication of design information, virtual prototyping, and quick generation of manufacturing-ready drawings and data giving ALNO Product Services a distinct advantage in a competitive market.

ALNO Product services will build your confidence to proceed to the next step in the design process.

Anthony@ALNO

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Mechainical Designers & Professional Toolmakers

This Blog is intended for mechanical and industrial designers to share thoughts ideas partially challenging issues preferably yet to be resolved, along with toolmakers that produce molds and dies based on the a customers dream.

For more information on how to make your customers dream to become a reality for a friendly people that like to help others please feel free to contact ALNO

The team at ALNO offer CNC Machining, Turning, Milling, Grinding, Electrical Discharge Machining, Advanced Manufacturing, 3-D Metal Printing.

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