What is the difference between a prototype model and a mold?
Various moulds and tools for industrial production. Generally speaking, it is a tool used to make molded products. This tool consists of different parts. Under the action of external force, the blank becomes a tool for manufacturing parts with specific shape and size. Different molds consist of different parts. It mainly processes the shape of an object by changing the physical state of the formed material. Any commodity is made by mould, which is widely used in the forming process of products in various industries. Today, we will follow the weaving of rapid prototyping manufacturers.
For example, communication equipment such as TV sets, household appliances, mobile phones, telephone casings, our common products are formed by injecting plastic heating software into the mold for cooling, and rice cookers are also pressed into such shapes with metal plates of the mold. The mold has a specific profile or cavity shape. Mold is a tool with complex shape and can bear the expansion force of blank. The requirements for structural strength, stiffness, surface hardness, surface roughness and machining accuracy are high. The development level of mold production is one of the important signs of the level of machinery manufacturing.
Solid die manufacturing costs are usually high. There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of large mold bases, especially in the industry, millions of mold bases are very common. If the structure is unreasonable during die installation, it will cause great losses. Therefore, the appearance, structure and function are generally confirmed by hand, and there is no problem before mass production. Prototype, also known as template, template and template, is also called“ in some places; Plate”, That is, the model of the product. Prototype is a step to verify the feasibility of products. It is a direct and effective method to find out the defects, shortcomings and shortcomings of the designed product, so as to improve the defects pertinently until the defects can not be found in individual prototype models. Generally, small batch trial production is required to find out the shortcomings of small batch and improve them.
Usually, products just developed or designed need to be manual models. The designed product is defective and can not even be used. Once defects occur in direct production, it will be completely scrapped, wasting manpower, material resources and time. Generally speaking, the number of prototype samples is small, the production cycle is short, and the waste of human and material resources is small. It can quickly find out the deficiencies of product design and improve them, providing sufficient basis for product finalization and batch production.
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