Selecting Injection Molds

Herbert Rees, Bruce Catoen9781569903896, 1569903891

Prevent potentially costly problems when planning a mold for a new product or planning to increase the productivity for a product for which a mold exists with these proactive strategies. Whether on the large mass market or the custom molder scale, this book goes through the critical issues to be considered before steel is cut.
Find answers to the most common but difficult questions you encounter in industrial practice: How to approach selection of the mold features, How productivity affects mold selection, How selection of design features affects mold cost, How to reduce mold and product cost by simple design changes, How to approach estimating mold cost.
This brand new book comes to you in full color graphics, illustrations and photographs. It comprehensively addresses the inseparable issues of mold cost, mold quality and cost of product by highlighting the critical decision areas for construction and operating details for the most economical mold for the job, all in an easily understood format with minimum theory or complicated formulas.