Rapid Tooling and product development

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Rapid Tooling (Rapid-Tooling) can be seen as rapid prototyping (prototype) manufacturing (Rapid-Prototyping) logical extension. In the part design stage and the bulk phase of trial production, rapid prototyping mode can not meet the requirements. In product formation, when the geometry of the product is determined. The key issues at this time is no longer a function of the product, but the preparation of mass production, the development of mass production technology, design and manufacture the production equipment and tooling. Here, in order to use the advantages of rapid manufacturing technology, has developed a rapid tooling manufacturing model. To the adoption of this model may be adopted in the early process of mass production model to avoid the risk of beginning. Therefore, the rapid tooling application model provides a standardized type box with the adoption of rapid manufacturing technology or through the use of HSC milling for the manufacture of the core portfolio. At the same time, a basic rule is that a simple core cutting method is used to create complex geometry of the accumulation of core material through the process to generate, but the basic shape of the core is the use of standardized components.

Real advantages: Rapid Tooling Although there are a lot of forming a free, however, precisely this process also enables the manufacture of complex components to keep costs within certain limits, because their manufacturing costs and complexity of the component has nothing to do.

 

     In the actual industrial production, the rapid manufacturing process technology, such as indirect metal laser sintering (IMLS), has the ability to injection mold manufacturing, and even used to make die-casting mold. However, rapid tooling, it is not only through the introduction of new technology to achieve rapid tooling manufacturing, but also to make use of this model to a tool and die maker at the direction of the production of a short time, thus like as much as possible to shorten the product supply or die time, so as to meet the growing product shortest survival time of the formation of product requirements.

 

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     In principle, the rapid manufacturing mold is different from the traditional high-volume production mold components. Because the mass production of the mold with high accuracy and the requirements of life. And the components in the future to spend a higher production cost of the manufacturing cycle as short as possible to optimize the corresponding mold. This may be more economical mass production of components. Rapid Tooling in, you On the contrary, these requirements greatly reduced. For example, injection mold, aluminum mold used mostly sufficient. Simple tool for composition, such as alternative trough insert pieces, will help to maximize volume prototype components to simplify the development of production processes and production process, however, will result in the production component of the production cycle longer.