Marlee-Texen custom injection molding is an amazing process! It involves (creating) a pre-designed plastic part by forcing molten plastic into a mold cavity. The material is then cooled and ejected from the mold, producing a high quality finished product. Negatively speaking, the process of injection molding can be expensive and time consuming; however, it is extremely reliable and produces parts with excellent tolerances.
To start off the process, a raw plastic material must be selected. This choice must take into account such properties as strength, rigidity, temperature resistance and cost efficiency. Once this step has been completed, the design for the part must be created in three dimensions using computer aided design software – which can then be used to create the actual molds themselves!
Next on comes setting up the machine that will do all of the actual work. Here things like melt temperatures, pressure settings and screw speeds need to be taken into consideration to ensure that everything runs smoothly and exactly how it needs to run. Also at this stage any optional automated processes such as sprue removal or pad printing need to be added onto the machine setup so that they are ready for use when needed.
Once all of these steps have been completed it's finally time to begin production! Injection molded parts are produced through repeated cycles of filling each individual cavity with molten material before allowing it enough time to cool down so that each newly formed part can then be removed from its respective mold(s). The cycle times vary depending on multiple factors including size/shape complexity but typically range between 6-30 seconds per cycle.
All in all Marlee-Texen custom injection molding is an incredible feat of engineering with many benefits over alternative manufacturing methods such as CNC machining or 3D printing – not least being that it allows for mass production at much lower costs per unit than other processes would allow for!
