Rapid Tooling Services

On Demand Manufacturing

50 million+

Annually Turnover

1500+

Customers Server Annual

30+

Manufacturing Facilities

MOQ 1

Convenient for Youself

Types Of Rapid Tooling

we provide rapid tooling with low cost, short time consuming, and you can check the problem visually on it before mass production.

Aluminum Mold Tooling

Aluminum mold tooling is a process of creating molds from aluminum for manufacturing. It offers advantages such as faster production times, cost-effectiveness, and excellent thermal conductivity, making it ideal for rapid prototyping. Applications include low to medium volume production, testing prototypes, and producing intricate parts for automotive, consumer goods.

Steel Mold Tooling

Steel mold tooling involves creating molds from high-strength steel, known for its durability and precision. Advantages include high wear resistance, longevity, and the ability to produce large volumes of parts with consistent quality. Applications span automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, and electronics, where precise and high-volume manufacturing is essential.

Materials For Prototype Injection Molding

In general, plastics suitable for production injection molding can also be used with prototype molds. Below are the most common plastics for molding. If you don’t see a specific material listed, please contact our team for more information.

Thermoplastics

Thermosets

How Do Injection Mold Tools Work?

Need between 100 and 100,000 molded parts? Injection mold tools offer a cost-effective solution for your product development process.

Optimizing design for manufacturability (DFM)

Optimizing design for manufacturability (DFM) is the process of ensuring that a product design can be manufactured in the most efficient way. Key steps include: simplifying part design, reducing complexity and the number of components, and avoiding unnecessary details to reduce mold processing time and cost; ensuring consistent product wall thickness to prevent uneven cooling and shrinkage deformation; designing appropriate draft angles to make parts easy to demold and reduce the risk of damage; adding ribs and support structures to improve product strength and stability while reducing material usage; avoiding sharp corners and thin-wall designs to prevent stress concentration and product cracking.

The selection of mold tool materials

The choice of mold tool materials greatly affects mold life and product quality. Common materials include: aluminum alloy, which is light, has good thermal conductivity, and fast processing speed, ideal for small batch production and prototyping, but with low hardness and wear resistance; pre-hardened steel like P20, which has moderate hardness and good processing performance, suitable for medium batch production, but less wear-resistant than hardened steel; hardened steel like H13 and S136, which has high hardness and wear resistance, ideal for mass production and high-demand products, but difficult to process and costly; copper alloy, which has excellent thermal conductivity, reduces cooling time, and improves efficiency, but has low hardness and wears easily.

Rapid mold manufacturing process

Rapid mold manufacturing is a process that shortens mold manufacturing time and improves production efficiency through efficient processes and technologies. Common processes include: CNC machining (CNC), which uses computer-controlled machine tools for high-precision cutting, and is suitable for mold manufacturing of various complex shapes; electrospark machining (EDM), which uses electric sparks to erode metal materials and process complex cavities and microstructures; 3D printing, which uses additive manufacturing technology to rapidly form materials layer by layer, has high design freedom, and is suitable for small-batch production and molds with complex structures; laser sintering (SLS), which uses lasers to sinter powder materials layer by layer to manufacture high-precision and complex-shaped molds, with a variety of material options, suitable for rapid prototyping and small-batch production.

Why choose Rapid Tooling Services?

There are six reasons for choosing rapid mold service. Let’s take a look.

Efficient and high quality

Our expertise ensures that we produce high-quality prototype injection molding tools that are close to or 100% match the final production level. We deliver the right tools with mass production quality.

Competitive price

Our professional engineers combine advanced technology with the right materials to provide cost-effective solutions. With in-depth knowledge of rapid mold design and material selection, we ensure high-quality molds at the lowest price.

Design for manufacturing support

As part of the prototype injection molding process, we provide design for manufacturing (DFM) support to reveal any problems in your design. Therefore, you can make necessary changes before prototyping or production begins. This will help save costs.

Timely delivery

The right combination of technology and experience can speed up the production of prototypes for functional testing. Speed reduces the time you spend in the prototyping stage, ensuring faster time to market.

Reliable process

Each of our projects starts with extensive material testing to obtain the best performance. Therefore, you can be confident of the composition and integrity of the materials used. Then, we combine industry-leading technology to ensure 100% satisfaction with our rapid mold service.

One-stop processing capability

Combining the experience in rapid prototyping, EDM processing, 3D printing, vacuum casting and finishing in CNC processing, Weike can produce rapid production molds and rapid injection molds quickly and efficiently.