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Q How does Injection Mold work?
A The process typically involves the following steps:
1. Clamping: The two halves of the mold, the stationary side, and the moving side are securely closed together under high pressure. This creates a sealed mold cavity.
2. Injection: Molten material, usually in the form of thermoplastics, is injected into the mold cavity through a injection molding nozzle. The material fills the cavity, taking its shape and conforming to the mold's contours.
3. Cooling: After the material is injected, it is allowed to cool and solidify within the mold. Cooling time depends on the material and part design.
4. Ejection: Once the material has solidified, the mold is opened, and the part is ejected using injection molding ejector pins or other mechanisms.
5. Cycle Repeat: The process is repeated for subsequent parts, allowing for high-volume production.
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Q What is the life of a plastic mold?
A Sample~1000,000 times
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Q What is the commonly used materials in the cavity?
A P20, H13 steel, NAK80, S136, 738H, etc.
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Q What are the Applications of Injection Molded Parts and Injection Molding Products?
A Injection molding applications can be found in various industries, including:
1. Injection Molding Automotive Parts: Interior and exterior injection molding components, injection molded electrical connectors, and under-the-hood parts.
2. Injection Molded Consumer Products: Household appliances, packaging, toys, and injection molding electronics.
3. Medical Injection Molding: Injection molding medical devices, disposable items, and diagnostic equipment.
4. Aerospace Injection Molding: Interior components, connectors, and structural parts.
5. Industrial Injection Molding: Custom injection molded enclosures, injection molded gears, injection molded knobs, and machinery components.
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Q When is Injection Molding Used?
A Injection molding is commonly used when:
1. Large quantities of parts are required.
2. Complex part geometries need to be achieved.
3. High precision and tight tolerances are necessary.
4. Repeatable and consistent part quality is essential.
5. Cost-effective production is needed for long production runs.
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Q How to Reduce Injection Mold cost?
A How much does an injection mold cost? It depends on the mold itself, but you can consider the following strategies to reduce injection mold costs :
1. Simplify the part design to minimize complexity and tooling requirements.
2. Optimize the injection mold design for easier manufacturing and reduced material waste.
3. Collaborate with experienced mold designers and manufacturers who can suggest cost-saving solutions.
4. Utilize cost-effective materials that meet the required specifications.
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Q What products can Centerless grind produce?
A It is used for grinding and polishing the cylindrical surfaces of various rings, shafts, and pipe parts.
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Q What products are suitable for CNC lathe tool machining?
A – Inner and outer cylindrical surfaces of shaft or disc parts.
– Internal and external conical surfaces of any cone angle of the shaft or disc parts.
– Machining of complex rotary inner and outer surfaces of the shaft or disc parts, cylindrical and conical threads, etc.
– Grooving, drilling, reaming, and boring of shaft or disc parts.
– Products that require high-volume lathe machining are suitable for CNC lathe machine.
– The structure of the product or workpiece should be suitable for precision machining CNC lathe.
– The material of the workpiece is suitable for CNC lathe process.
– The workpiece’s diameter, length, processing technology, etc., are suitable for CNC lathe machining.
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Q What are CNC lathes used for?
A – Inner and outer cylindrical surfaces of the shaft or disc parts.
– Internal and external conical surfaces of any cone angle of the shaft or disc parts.
– Machining of complex rotating inner and outer surfaces of the shaft or disc parts, cylindrical and conical threads, etc.
– Grooving, knurling, drilling, reaming and boring of the shaft or disc parts.
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Q What are the differences between CNC lathe and CNC machining center?
A – CNC lathe is two-axis control, and CNC machining center is multi axis machining.
– CNC lathe uses a tool holder, and CNC machining center has a tool magazine. The tool holder is an integral part of the CNC lathe. It installs various cutting tools. Its structure directly affects the cutting performance and working efficiency of the lathe. The tool holder is divided into turret type and row tool type. There are more types of tool magazines in CNC machining center than those of tool holders in CNC lathes. There are disc type tool magazine, turntable style / bamboo-hat type tool magazine for CNC machining center, flying saucer type tool magazine, chain type tool magazine, synchronous types, etc. The tool capacity of most tool magazines is more significant than that of CNC lathe tool holders.
– From the process difference, because CNC machining center has its tool magazine, it can automatically change the tool to realize multi-process machining. However, CNC lathe does not come with its tool magazine and can only complete one process.
– Different from the processing range, the processing range of CNC lathe is smaller than that of CNC machining center. CNC lathe is mainly used to for machining of rotary shaft parts, such as cylinders, cones, etc. CNC machining center can do more, such as boring, milling, cutting, reaming-tapping screws, etc. CNC machining center is divided into three-axis control, four-axis CNC, and five-axis CNC. The more axes, the broader range for CNC machining center processing, such as Box parts, special-shaped parts, plate parts, complex surface, etc.
– In terms of programming, the same CNC systems are used. CNC lathes are somewhat similar to three-axis or four-axis machine centers, but CNC machining centers are more complicated to program.
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Q Customized heat treatment of precision CNC lathe parts.
A – Reference to manufacturing standards: Heat treatment of many materials is standardized and can be customized with reference to the standardization of heat treatment.
– Specifying desired hardness: Specify common methods for the heat treatment and case hardening of tool steels. For example, the hardness for SKD61 is usually required to be 50~52hrc; For SKD11, it usually requires a hardness of 58~50hrc.
– Specify heat treatment cycle: according to the use function of the part, when the details of the known required heat treatment are set, these details can be clearly marked together when placing an order.
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Q What are the differences between CNC turning lathe and CNC milling machine?
A – Working principle is different. CNC lathe is that the workpiece rotates on the spindle. And the tool is on the tool holder, moving in the XY axis direction. CNC milling machine is the rotation of the milling cutter on the spindle or the feed movement of the milling head, and the workpiece moves in the XYZ axis direction on the worktable. Thereby, the workpiece can obtain the required machining surface.
– Programming is different. Determined by the working mode, CNC lathe programming only needs to input the XY coordinates, and the milling machine needs to input the XYZ coordinates.
– The scope of work is different. The lathe can process shafts, discs, sleeves, outer circles, tapered surfaces, grooves, end faces, drill holes, threads, and others with rotary surface workpieces. Milling machines can mill planes, holes, grooves, toothed parts and various curved surfaces, and so on.
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Q What is the process flow of CNC lathes?
A According to the processing drawings provided by the customer, the technicians can analyze the shape, dimensional accuracy, surface roughness, work-piece material, heat treatment requirements, and surface requirements of the parts. And then, they select the tool and determine the positioning and clamping devices, processing methods, and process sequencing. In deciding the CNC lathe processing, they will fully consider the command function of the CNC lathe machine tools, and give full play to the efficiency of turning machine tools, so that the processing route is reasonable, with less time for cutting and short processing hours.
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Q The experience of the technicians?
A Technicians have all studied through relevant mechanical manufacturing majors, and the longest working time of technicians in the industry is over 30+ years.
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Q What products are suitable for EDM machining process?
A All conductive materials can be processed by EDM manufacturing process.
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Q What are the characteristics of EDM machine operation?
A – EDM can process hard, brittle, tough, soft, and high melting point conductive material.
– “No cutting force” during processing, which is conducive to the processing of small holes, thin walls, narrow grooves, and various complex shapes of holes, spiral holes, cavities, and other workpieces. It is also suitable for precision and micromachining.
– When the pulse width is small, the entire workpiece is hardly affected by heat, so the heat-affected layer can be reduced, and the surface quality can be improved after processing. It is also suitable for processing heat-sensitive materials.
– The pulse parameters can be adjusted arbitrarily, which rough, semi-finishing, and finishing can be continuously performed on one machine tool.
– Direct use of electrical energy processing, easy to achieve automation.
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Q Advantages of EDM
A – It is possible to manufacture special-shaped surfaces that cannot be produced by conventional cutting machines.
– Machining hard materials can also have good tolerance accuracy.
– The cutting force of conventional machines may damage small workpieces, but EDM will not.
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Q Disadvantages of EDM
A – Non-conductors cannot be processed.
– The processing speed is slow.
– High processing cost.
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Q Range of EDM definition manufacturing?
A – All conductive materials can be processed by electrical discharge machine.
– The highest precision of electric discharge machining can reach +/-0.005mm surface roughness up to the mirror level.
– Stations that cannot be processed by traditional machining can generally be completed by electrical discharge machining.
– The discharge station can be the cavity of various large-scale plastic molds or small holes and tiny grooves with a width of 0.1mm.
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Q The physical process in machining EDM?
A Generally, it can be divided into three stages:
The first stage forms the discharge channel, where the electrolyte is ionized and broken down, and the discharge channel is formed.
In the second stage, energy conversion is formed on the surface of the workpiece. That is, spark discharge and thermal expansion are generated, so the tool electrode and the workpiece are eroded.
The erosion produced in the third stage is thrown out of the discharge gap to prepare for the subsequent discharge.