1.Design for efficiency. In this case, we’re talking about production efficiency: making your part as easy as possible to produce, package and fulfill — while minimizing errors. This means following design best practices such as adding appropriate draft (or angle taper) to your parts for easier ejection, rounding corners, keeping walls sufficiently thick, and generally designing your product to take advantage of how the molding process works. With efficient design, your overall cycle times will be shorter, reducing the machine time for which you pay, and your number of discarded parts due to production or ejection error will be lower, saving you wasted time and material.
2.Analyze the structural requirements. Before moving to production, it can pay dividends to closely analyze the structure of your part to determine which areas are most critical to its function and quality.
3.Reduce solid part areas.Reducing solid part areas in favor of more hollow sections with carefully planned and placed supporting elements can yield big dividends to your bottom line.
4.Use core cavities when possible. When designing hollow box- or cylinder-shaped pieces, mold design and configuration can make a big difference in the efficiency and cost of both mold production and your part production process.
5.Simplify as much as possible. When simplifying your product design, eliminating any unnecessary elements, you can start to see savings in tooling costs, setup and production efficiency.
