What is the difference between prototype and mold

listening to engineers talking about the need to mold those products, other prototype samples can be done, I don't quite understand, please ask, what is the difference between mold and prototype? -- This is the question that we occasionally encounter when we are doing customer service. Let's introduce it in detail here.

prototype, which is simply a sample of the product, when your design drawings come out, the designed finished products are generally not perfect or even usable. Once there are defects in direct production, they will be scrapped, greatly wasting manpower, material resources and time; The prototype is generally a small number of samples, the production cycle is short, the loss of manpower and material resources is small, and the shortage of product design is quickly found to improve, providing sufficient basis for product styling and mass production. Because of this, some places call it'First Board' That is, the model of the product, the meaning of the prototype of the more vivid description, and in Japan, the prototype is called'Do it by hand'Its English name is' Rapid prototype'.

The mold is a production tool that can produce parts with certain shape and size requirements. That is, the mold that people usually say, such as the casing of TV sets, telephones, plastic buckets and other commodities, is produced by injecting plastic heating software into the mold cooling and molding. The steamed rice pot is also shaped like this by a metal plate pressed with a mold. Any goods are made with molds. It can be said that there is no production of products without molds.

although there are so many differences between the prototype and the mold, they are still related, generally, the prototype model is used to confirm the shape to the customer, and then the mold is opened for mass production. The cost of manufacturing many solid molds is generally high, and the value of large molds is 100,000 or even millions, especially in the medical industry. If the structure is unreasonable or other problems occur during the installation of the mold, this is very big. The prototype model can solve the problem of this loss and reduce the risk of manufacturing the solid model.

The above details introduce the difference and connection between the prototype and the mold. In one sentence, the summary is: the purpose of making a prototype is to make a mold better.

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