How to Judge Plastic Injection Mould Quality?

The quality of plastic injection mould is one of the aspects that the customer cares very much. When the mould is produced out, the customer is most concerned about the mould quality. Because the quality of plastic injection mould is closely related to the injection moulded products. How to judge plastic injection mould quality is difficult, especially business on internet. The mould is different from other products, that we can't ship samples to customers to judge the quality. Since it is impossible to look with naked eye and touch to judge the quality of the mould, we can only find some ways to judge the quality of plastic injection mould remotely.

Plastic injection mould is customized. Generally, after customer decide start mould making, they offer plastic injection moulding companies 3D or 2D (3D is best) drawings of products. After receiving drawings, injection moulding manufacturer do CAD design/mould flow analysis/DFM. And then start plastic injection mould making, after mould making, do mould trial, and last is mass production of injection moulded products. 

In fact, injection moulded products directly reflect the quality of plastic injection moulds. The samples of injection moulded products can be shipped to customer to judge the quality of plastic injection mould. So there is another questions, how do customers judge the quality of injection moulded products, thereby know the quality of plastic injection moulds? Let ACO Mould tell you. Judge from the appearance quality of injection moulded products, including integrity, color and gloss. Besides, to see whether the injection moulded products have flashes and burns, whether the surface is smooth. If products have these, the quality of plastic injection mould usually is bad. And injection moulding factory needs to arrange workers to deal with these defects, which is also time wasting.

In addition to judge the quality of plastic injection mould from the injection moulded products, there are many other methods.

1. Judge from mould itself. If judge the quality from mould itself, the first is the mould material, that is, the mould steel, the selection of mould steel is an important factor affecting the service life of plastic injection mould. Many customers will determine mould steel with Chinese injection moulding manufacturer before they place order. For plastic injection mould, the harder the selected mould steel, the more difficult to wear during injection moulding and the longer the service time. The longer the service life, the more injection moulded products the mould can produce. 
2. To see whether the mould is easily damaged and often need to be repaired under the normal maintenance. We all know that things that are easy to damage and repair are definitely bad. So does the plastic injection mould.
3. To see how many plastic parts can be produced by plastic injection mould in one minute. Time is money! 

If you find a good manufacturer, you will get the plastic injection mould with good quality. So choose partner carefully. When selecting injection moulding manufacturer, in addition to consider the professional level of them, it is also important to select according to the actual circumstance of customers themselves.