Understanding Product Design for Injection Molding (Hanser Understanding Books)
By Herbert Rees
Publisher: Hanser Gardner Pubns
Number Of Pages: 116
Publication Date: 1996-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1569902100
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781569902103
During the more than 40 years the author has worked designing molds for plastics products, he has had many occasions to view and discuss product designs with their designers. Usually, the contact with the designer was established only after a purchase order for a mold had been placed to produce a certain product. In reviewing the supplied drawings, and occasionally models, many questions had to be answered before starting to design and build a practical mold, suitable for the plastic, for the requirements of the product, and for the planned production and mold life expectancy.
Many product designers have excellent ideas when coming up with new products and improvements to existing ones, but often they apply design...