What is the function of inserts in injection molds？
Mold inserts refer to irregular mold accessories embedded in the mold, which has the function of fixing mold plate. Mold inserts do not have a fixed shape and structure, and normally it need to be customized by the actual mold structure, and it has high requirements on its precision.
What are the specific functions of mold inserts?
1. Mold maintenance. After thousands of shots, sometimes the injection mold may need to be repaired or fixed again. The engineers can adjust or repair the inserts to achieve the maintenance work for the certain block of the mold, and this method greatly improve the efficiency of mold repairing and cut down the costs of mold maintenance.
2. Mold exhaust. Exhausting through the gap of the mold inserts is now a common method in the mold manufacturing.
3. Mold manufacturing. The application of mold inserts can decrease the difficulty of mold manufacturing, and can replace the areas which is hard to process with mold inserts, and achieve the purpose of mold processing simplify.
4. Mold material, the mold are processed in steel with regular shape, and we need to buy the raw material with the volume of the height of the mold structure, but if we replace the highest structure by mold inserts, the volume of the mold steel we should buy will be lower.
5. Mold life. Generally, we will set the mold inserts at where is easily being damaged, and we can repair the mold by changing the mold inserts, not influence the main structure of the mold.
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