When exploring the production cycle of medical injection molding, it is essential to delve into the internal production processes of an injection molding factory. As a leader in the industry, Dongguan Yize Mold will provide a detailed breakdown of this process, helping you better grasp the timelines and enhance project efficiency.

1. Quote Drawing Preparation: Laying the Foundation for Cooperation

   Providing customers with plastic mold quote drawings is the first step in cooperation. The production cycle for medical plastic molds is approximately 35 days, which is a critical phase in the entire project. Before customers select a mold factory, we provide preliminary structural drawings to facilitate negotiations with suppliers, thereby shortening the overall project timeline. During the few days of customer-supplier negotiations, we can optimize, review, and modify the product. Once the customer selects a supplier, our structural design is complete, and we can proceed to the mold review stage.

2. Structural Design Optimization: Ensuring Product Practicality

   Converting design plans into actual products requires in-depth consideration and prevention of numerous issues. For example, how medical plastic parts fit with device housings, methods to enhance plastic part strength, and improvements to facilitate mold manufacturing. These all necessitate meticulous structural design optimization.

3. Structural Review: Collective Wisdom for Perfection

   Every structural engineer's design may have issues that are difficult to identify personally. Therefore, we need other engineers to review the designs from different positions and angles, offering improvement suggestions. The initial review, conducted by another structural designer, takes about half a day to a day, comprehensively examining the drawings. Subsequently, a collective review involving all structural department members and relevant designers ensures the drawings represent the company's highest standard, also providing a learning opportunity for structural designers.

4. Structural Prototype Verification: Physical Validation for Accuracy

   Structural prototypes are crucial for validating designs. Producing a structural prototype requires ID process annotations, BOMs, and 3D files, with a production cycle of about four days. We ensure the prototype's appearance and dimensions match the drawings, closely resembling the final injection-molded product. Thorough inspection of part dimensions and overall assembly helps identify and resolve potential issues.

5. Mold Review: Multi-party Evaluation for Flawless Execution

   While producing the structural prototype, we send relevant materials to customers, solution companies, and selected mold factories for review. This review typically takes 1-2 days. Customers can leverage their technical expertise for additional scrutiny, solution companies can assess potential antenna signal reception issues, and mold factories can provide insights into potential mold manufacturing problems. If necessary, customers, design companies, and mold factories can convene to discuss and resolve any disputes, with customers making final decisions.

6. Project Follow-up During Mold Investment: Ensuring Complete Components

   Producing medical plastic parts requires about 35 days for molding. During this period, we are not idle but follow up on project progress to ensure all necessary components are available. This is a crucial step for smooth project execution.

7. Mold Trial and Modification: Meeting Design Requirements

   After the mold is manufactured, we conduct plastic part trials and mold adjustments to meet design requirements. Before the mold trial, we collect samples of other components and, along with structural designers, visit the mold factory for individual part and assembly inspections. Identified issues are coordinated with the mold factory for resolution, with design companies and mold factories resolving disputes through customer decisions.

8. Pilot Production: Validating Improvement Results

   Improved samples undergo repeated mold trial procedures for verification. During the mold trial, surface treatments can be applied to appearance components like upper and lower shells, followed by assembly confirmation. If assembly is correct, pilot production can proceed.

9. Mass Production: Realizing Outcomes, Ensuring Service

   After multiple rounds of validation, modification, inspection, and improvement, the structural designer's hard work is ready for implementation. All issues are resolved before mass production, which can proceed without structural designer involvement if no issues arise. Dongguan Yize Mold offers a complete solution from product design to after-sales service.

Dongguan Yize Mold Co., Ltd., established in 2007, has been dedicated to precision mold design and manufacturing, as well as precision injection molding production. We specialize in automotive connectors, medical product injection molding, cleanroom injection molding, PFA custom injection molding, and other fields, providing customers with high-quality products and services. If you have any questions about the production cycle of medical molds or other related issues, please feel free to contact us. Contact number: +86 13302615729 (WeChat, WhatsApp same number).