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Exploring Plastic Injection Molding Pilot Runs

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Renaud hosts and is joined by Sofeast Group senior engineer, Paul Adams, to discuss how to go from a design to mass-producing your plastic injection molded parts, first following the proven pre-production pilot run approach to ensure risks are kept to a minimum. You'll learn what should be optimized and what should not be skipped, even if sometimes getting to market sooner seems tempting.

Show Sections

00:00 - Greetings and introduction

01:49 - Why is an injection molding pilot run important?

05:05 - What are the steps involved?

09:53 - Why 'metal safe' is your goal after the trials.

12:39 - The supplier still needs to optimize the tooling

25:01 - Optimizing the injection mold press (machine).

34:55 - Keeping records of parameter settings helps to control the process.

39:04 - Wrapping up.

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Renaud hosts and is joined by Sofeast Group senior engineer, Paul Adams, to discuss how to go from a design to mass-producing your plastic injection molded parts, first following the proven pre-production pilot run approach to ensure risks are kept to a minimum. You'll learn what should be optimized and what should not be skipped, even if sometimes getting to market sooner seems tempting.

Show Sections

00:00 - Greetings and introduction

01:49 - Why is an injection molding pilot run important?

05:05 - What are the steps involved?

09:53 - Why 'metal safe' is your goal after the trials.

12:39 - The supplier still needs to optimize the tooling

25:01 - Optimizing the injection mold press (machine).

34:55 - Keeping records of parameter settings helps to control the process.

39:04 - Wrapping up.

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Subscribe to the podcast

There are more episodes to come, so remember to subscribe! You can do so in your favorite podcast apps here and don't forget to give us a 5-star rating, please:

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