There is no doubt that mold design is the first stop of industrial design. He needs excellent talents, but he can't need as many people as he does for general workers, but he certainly needs a lot of talents.
In mold design, metal mold design, plastic mold design, glass mold design and even ceramic technology are all applying mold design, so it needs high-end design talents from electronic products to large machinery and automobile mold design; The main work of mold design includes:
(1) Digital Drawing-Convert 3D products and mold models into 2D engineering drawings used in conventional machining;
(2) Digital design of mould: according to the product model and design intention, establish the relevant three-dimensional solid model of mould;
(3) Digital analysis and simulation of the mold-according to the product molding process conditions, structural analysis, thermal analysis, fatigue analysis and motion analysis of the mold parts;
(4) product molding process simulation-injection molding and stamping;
(5) Customize the standard parts and standard design process suitable for the company's mold design;
(6) Mold production management. There are several development directions for the future development of molds:
One: high precision.
Whether the dimensional accuracy can be achieved is the most important factor in manufacturing high-precision, high-quality and high-tech products. The best in the past were Japan and Germany. After decades of continuous learning and innovation, a large number of companies specializing in high-precision mold manufacturing have emerged in China mold industry.
To make high-precision molds, there are two main elements, one is equipment and the other is talent. With the rapid increase in the number of domestic high-end equipment, this is no longer a problem. There are also talents, many of whom come from foreign capital or joint ventures, or bosses or supervisors, who use the skills they have learned to compete with old employers. There are several development directions for the future development of molds:
One: high precision.
Whether the dimensional accuracy can be achieved is the most important factor in manufacturing high-precision, high-quality and high-tech products. The best in the past were Japan and Germany. After decades of continuous learning and innovation, a large number of companies specializing in high-precision mold manufacturing have emerged in China mold industry.
To make high-precision molds, there are two main elements, one is equipment and the other is talent. With the rapid increase in the number of domestic high-end equipment, this is no longer a problem. There are also talents, many of whom come from foreign capital or joint ventures, or bosses or supervisors, who use the skills they have learned to compete with old employers. Two: high efficiency
That is, the degree of automation is high. With the popularization of all kinds of automation equipment (mainly robots) for mold production and the improvement of the intelligence of standard parts (mainly hot runner) inside the mold, the efficiency of mold production is getting higher and higher, and it will develop towards a higher and better realm. In this process, the requirements for mold designer will be higher and higher. At that time, mold designer could not only learn about automation equipment, but also participate in design.
In the future, there will be only three kinds of people in the factory: managers, technicians and robots.
Three: new mold
With the continuous progress of technological innovation, many molds that originally needed very complicated twists and turns can become very simple. There are many structures that were originally thought impossible. This is a new opportunity and challenge for the mould industry, especially for mold designer. Mold factories that have mastered these new mold design and manufacturing technologies will have more initiative. Mastering high-tech molds requires profound design and manufacturing details. The rich profits of these new molds will be well rewarded to companies that have invested a lot of money in this field, and these high-tech technologies will also become well-known resources of the company and strive for chips for better customers!
A few mold types that have appeared in recent years are simply cited: four-sided rotating ejection mold, sliding fit mold for plastic products after secondary injection molding, injection stamping integrated mold, high-speed continuous mold and so on.
Four: product development and mold integration
This trend is also inevitable, and this change can affect the change of manufacturing mode more than replacing the all-round mold master with assembly line. Simply put, it is to integrate mold design and product research and development into a new post, a brand-new post that can be responsible for the whole product from appearance to mechanism, to mold, to mold processing, mold production and product assembly. Become the absolute core of manufacturing industry.
V: Summary
Mold industry is still promising, because it is the two cores of manufacturing industry after all, especially when these two cores begin to merge into one core in the future, and another golden age is coming! Even if it is really depressing and difficult now, you can't deny this industry! Especially such basic industries.