I need 100,000 parts with a volume of .4 oz. Hoping 2 parts at a time. How long would this take you if it this were fully automated (with ejection pins)
Depending on the size of the part of you could do several cavities, you could get decent production. I think the cycle time is between 90 and 120 seconds. Still would take probably a month running 24/7. This is really not the machine for that kind of production. I think this machine is really designed to put plastic injection into the reach of a start up or designer. Once your product gets launched, then you would switch to traditional injection mold machines. For my use case, I will need quantities of several thousand units and that can be done in a few weeks easily, but then if demand increases I would farm the production out. Where a machine like this really shines is in being able to create a mold quickly and test it w/o long lead times for the machining on the mold and then trying to get into the production schedule to then get thousands or like you are asking for 100,000+ parts ran. I think the manufacturer of this machine quotes it's good for 200,000 parts / year. Which, is basically running a single cavity mold 24/7/365.
For the most part it's about 5" x 4" x 1.5". But all depends on the volume as the shot size on this machine is only 30 cc. For my needs, it should be big enough. But, it has it's limits for sure. I should be able to use this machine for all the 6-10 parts I need for the main product I'm designing now. The machine as it sits with no molds runs about $14k. The blank molds are ~$400 before you machine your part into it. THen the molds are good for tens of thousands of runs. Not as good a s steel mold for sure, but way way less money.
I need 100,000 parts with a volume of .4 oz. Hoping 2 parts at a time. How long would this take you if it this were fully automated (with ejection pins)
Depending on the size of the part of you could do several cavities, you could get decent production. I think the cycle time is between 90 and 120 seconds. Still would take probably a month running 24/7. This is really not the machine for that kind of production.
I think this machine is really designed to put plastic injection into the reach of a start up or designer. Once your product gets launched, then you would switch to traditional injection mold machines.
For my use case, I will need quantities of several thousand units and that can be done in a few weeks easily, but then if demand increases I would farm the production out. Where a machine like this really shines is in being able to create a mold quickly and test it w/o long lead times for the machining on the mold and then trying to get into the production schedule to then get thousands or like you are asking for 100,000+ parts ran.
I think the manufacturer of this machine quotes it's good for 200,000 parts / year. Which, is basically running a single cavity mold 24/7/365.
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How big a part can you make? How do you mill your molds? About how much$$$ I need!!!
For the most part it's about 5" x 4" x 1.5". But all depends on the volume as the shot size on this machine is only 30 cc. For my needs, it should be big enough. But, it has it's limits for sure. I should be able to use this machine for all the 6-10 parts I need for the main product I'm designing now.
The machine as it sits with no molds runs about $14k. The blank molds are ~$400 before you machine your part into it. THen the molds are good for tens of thousands of runs. Not as good a s steel mold for sure, but way way less money.