Mold Making Services
Step Rapid is committed to providing the best services for mold making. Serve low to high-volume production to support your most ambitious plastic injection molding projects. Our dedicated process control and material control helps ensure that millions of complex parts and assemblies can be made with consistent quality stability and the lowest possible cost per piece.
Except the production molds manufacturing. We also realize that low-volume production molds have increasingly come up with high demand. Especially customers want end-quality parts for validation and testing in the product development beforehand. This is rapid tooling we call which is normally used before high production, and for some demands. They never have high market volume requirements, so rapid tooling helps a lot for these demands. and more others, it can be quite a good pre-production validation before making production molds.
What is Production Mold Manufacturing?
The produciton mold manufacturing process is for mold and dies manufacturing. At Step Rapid, we offer mold design and making as a service on top of full-production injection molding. The majority of these molds are made of steel with using rigid material and advanced processing method. To withstand the rigorous demands of mass production. While maintaining dimensional tolerances on every finished part according to the design specifications.
To make this happen, mold manufacturers must bring together the finest raw materials, MFA (Mold Flow Analysis), sophisticated mold design, and precision machining. To build up with high volume shot life, such as meeting half a million shots or even higher. most mold manufacturers can not maintain sustainable good mold conditions for continuous produciton. And not enough experience to concentrate on details.
At Step Rapid, our injection mold-making procedure is a proprietary process. Which focuses on achieving high-standard mold design, analysis, precision machining, and trials. And molding production team works with top experience in using lines of imported machines. this allows us to quickly bring customer demands into reality in the designated resin. And produce parts from a few hundred to thousands of thousand.
StepRapid has become well-known for our capability of making high-quality injection mold in complex components. On the same short delivery timelines while other manufacturers use the same timing management. This is attributed to our advanced mold design team who fully understand the needs of customers. By streamlining internal communication as well as the special capabilities of the Step Rapid internal manufacturing operation. we can carry out the solutions for complex ribbing, numerous undercuts, over-molding, and insert molding. Likewise, when it comes to the various requirements of customers on family mold, multi cavities molds. We all have sophisticated thinking on settling and releasing high productivity at a lower cost.
Why Choose StepRapid for Production Mold Making
Plastic injection molding is an extremely versatile method of producing parts and products. It is one of the preferred methods for manufacturing parts. Because it has multiple advantages over other methods of plastic molding. At StepRapid, we stand apart from the competition by offering higher satisfied service. Also the better quality of customized support for designers and engineers from multiple industries. Such as the medical industry, aerospace, and defense industries. We keep improving our process and strengthen our knowledge in supplying as an expert. Here is why you will consider Step Rapid as the manufacturer for your next projects.
Effective Communication
You will benefit from communicating with technical sales who know better to support what you need and discuss more options to find out the best fit for your project manufacturing, and know-how to guide you to the quick path and move projects ahead significantly. rest assured that you will know more about the manufacturing process from the conversation we do.
Expertise And Experience
To make sure that the right party you connected to, all sales in Step Rapid are well-trained and experienced with over 100 projects and help customers to reach the final production, nothing better than the experts who can guide you in the whole project, all you need to do is to trust us and enjoy the experience we share. which benefit for your products or projects.
Authentic Materials Assurance
All production and parts start from materials selections. At Step Rapid, we can advise materials while you are not sure which type would be ideal base on product functionality. We help to identify the best fit. And you get full material traceability so you can meet your critical product certification and licensing requirements.
Add-on Services
Most the projects can not be finished by one process. We offer a full suite of add-on services to complete your project to the highest specifications. Which includes CNC milling and turning, aluminum extrusion, EDM processing, a series of finish services, and more.
In Step Rapid we found the right partner for the production of this part. Step Rapid supported Proterra in the feasibility study of the designed product, the production of the prototype as well as the tools. Proterra experienced this process as a real collaboration. The proactive working method and in-depth technical expertise of Step Rapid helped us make a prototype that meets the excellent quality requirements that Proterra sets for all its products. Step Rapid continuously thought along in the process, gave us fast delivery times and complied with all agreements.
The Fundamentals of Good Mold Design
To produce high-quality parts, an excellent Mold design is probably the most important factor. Which affects the quality of your production. Generally speaking, designs of running systems, cooling systems, and ejecting systems. These three key systems take the most important in mold design. Which maintains stable and repeatable dimensional tolerances for all the features of the part.
At Step Rapid, we control from the DFM stage. And team meetings review the design with improvements for all systems and details. Process control and inspections for all the core parts to make sure all mold parts are in spec. with applying fitting by all experienced mold engineers, and achieve streamlined operation during mold trials.
Free Design For Manufacturing Review
To save time and improve your product designs, speak with one of our experts today.
Production Mold Manufacturing FAQs
When does it make sense to invest in family tools?
Family tools are the ideal solution for making a set of mismatched parts in a single cycle using a tool with multiple cavities. We do this whenever a group of parts must have the same color so they can later be assembled into a finished product with a perfect match between all the pieces.
Does overmolding work on every type of plastic substrate?
There are some substrates that don’t form a good bond with every elastomer. That’s why it’s important to work with the manufacturer to help find custom solutions for your particular application.
What is the difference between production and bridge tooling?
Bridge tooling is used to fill the production gap, between a handful of parts made with prototype tools on one side and millions of parts made with full production tools on the other. As such, bridge tooling typically will use less durable tool steel, will often forego automated sliders or hot runner systems, and will not use a secondary coating such as chrome plating or PVD.
How long does it take to make production tooling?
Depending on the complexity, after the CAD drawings are confirmed it can take several weeks to machine and heat treat production tooling, although every job will vary.
What is the difference between production and bridge tooling?
Bridge tooling is used to fill the production gap, between a handful of parts made with prototype tools on one side and millions of parts made with full production tools on the other. As such, bridge tooling typically will use less durable tool steel, will often forego automated sliders or hot runner systems, and will not use a secondary coating such as chrome plating or PVD.
Free Plastic Injection Molds Quotation
When you share CAD files with our technical sales. At your request, Step Rapid will also perform a comprehensive design for manufacturing review. For making sure your design can be brought into all following manufacturing processes without high risk.
Our sales team will work closely with the engineering team to check out all details and features. And advise back to you if there is anything to be improved in terms of DFM. No one else in the industry offers this level of support – with absolutely no cost or obligation to you. Our sales engineer will reach out to you and explain to you all the aspects of the solutions. which we provide with answering any questions you may have about your options.