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Somewhat surprising mold production would even be considered to be sent to China. Every place I've been either does their own on-site or has a local partner doi
by t-3 3y ago
Somewhat surprising mold production would even be considered to be sent to China. Every place I've been either does their own on-site or has a local partner doing the machining. After all, these are not mass-produced parts, they're generally one-off with dimensions and fixtures designed to fit specific machines and materials.
- icegreentea2 3y agoHow do you iterate on the mold? I've worked at places that used local shops for both mold machining and the actual injection molding (we were in medical devices), so I never thought about that.
- t-3 3y agoRarely, touch-ups were done when necessary to molds in production (usually to fix damage caused by operator error, but sometimes to add new flash channels or fix other issues). AFAIK, iteration is usually kept to the prototype stage with aluminum molds and production molds are generally considered 'done'.