Rapid Tooling Application: Another Way to Make Your Rapid Prototypes
What is rapid tooling? Rapid tooling is
known as prototype tooling and soft tooling. Rapid tooling allows manufacturers
to get their parts or components in a quick and cheap manner. Rapid tooling is
the creation of a mold in a short period of time.
Rapid production tooling was found in the
1990s, engineers who worked in plastic injection molding did study that if they
could create molds in hours instead of a few weeks or months. Rapid mold is an
ideal way to produce prototypes or a small bath of qualified parts before mass
production. Rapid tooling process includes creating insert, core, cavity and
side action of the part. There are many types of rapid tooling. Benefits depend
on materials, technologies, sizes, consistency and accuracy needed.
Manufacturers build rapid tooling to test and validate the design in
prototyping stages when they develop a new product.
While many other Rapid Prototype options like
3D printing, CNC or vacuum casting are also able to produce fast and cheap
prototypes, rapid tooling has its main benefits in process and materials. Rapid
tooling can be used to test the production parameters to make sure parts fill
and act correctly as desired. Engineers and designers are able to find
potential problems and do related corrections to avoid these issues happen to
mass production or final part. Rapid tooling allows manufacturers to use the
real production grades of material and shows a clearly how the parts will be in
real life applications. Rapid tooling is a cheap rapid option for manufacturing
injection molded parts. It‘s speed allows manufacturers to put the parts to the
market fast. It is an ideal choice for low volume production runs.
Rapid Tooling Application has been improved
very much in the past decade. Additive fabrication technology is matured, tow
categories include indirect and direct tooling emerged. Direct tooling is a
method that involves additive process when creating real molds. Indirect
tooling is used to master patterns to produce molds or dies.
There are many reasons to choose a Rapid Prototyping Service. It is cheap, fast and effective. For more information
about using rapid tooling application in your projects, please contact
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offer you the best option for your unique rapid prototype project.