Hello Guys,

I have a plastic product design which i intend to commercial but currently still in design stage. I would like to know what does it take to fabricate a plastic product and how much will it cost for let say 2000 unit?

Fyi i am newbie and dont know if there is existing thread on this topic. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Tq

depends greatly on how big and complex your product will be. what will be the plastic you planning to use?

for 2000pcs a non-hardened mould can do it (cheaper)

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depend on complexity of your design and plastic material. The mold part would be very expensive

200K

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depends on your complexity and material used.

since u only targeted around 2k pcs, u can use non-harden mold ( soft tool ) but limited shot trade off.

regular price for soft tooling will be around 40k-80K ( part size around the size of asterok remote )

should your design required auto degating mold, it will cost slightly higher.

3D printing cheaper.

If I can remember a very long time ago, for some testing purpose and cost issues, they use wood to do it.
Depends only on the material you wanna use.

you can also use CNC machines or manual cut but cost more expensive.

Google "mechanical engineering: jigs and fixtures" at you area.

This post has been edited by azbro: Feb 24 2016, 04:04 PM

Depends your product complex design or not. What size.
What type of material you want to use? PP, HDPE, Acrylic?

If injection mold very pricey but finishing is the best and no limit to what type of plastic. Small volume usually use soft-mold.
Last time (5 years ago) a TV bezel soft mold with smooth finish cost about RM 100k and can last about 50,000 cycles before degradation.

CNC machine will machine out the part from 1 block of hard plastic, usually ABS.
Cost will be based on how many hours to machine out the parts.

Silicone vacuum casting is the fastest but the mold degrade after about 10 uses and only limited to using Polyurethane.
Normally reserved for people doing prototypes or sample units before mass production.
Lowest in cost.

Then there's various 3D printing devices like SLA machines and filament based 3D printers.
But these things no strength. Cost also follow hours needed.

Now you can pick your poison.

buy 3d printer and produce urself

TS post the thread and disappeared.. No respect to return and show face

need to check how complex your mold is, the size also and what material.

if u wan cheap solution, 3d printer is the way. do not make any hard tools until the design is confirmed.

Sabarlah. Maybe he is busy.

Yes, that's why I sometimes lazy to post long long one

Waste time only, sounds so seriously but actually nothing one

As for part strength made with 3D printing, the strength depends on the material, how it is printed, and the design itself. It's not that the prints have no strenght but it's good enough for prototyping and everyday stuff.

Provided you know how to use a 3D printer in the first place. It's not really plug and play or like changing ink cartridge.

I wonder why /k become like serious /k...

Agree with this.. The most important thing when we talk about plastic injection moulding will be:

1. The complexity of the part that u want to produce. If too complex, the mould price will be very expensive.

2. The mould size. If ur product require large mould size & need to be injected by using medium or large tonnage injection machine then the mould development cost usually will not less than Rm50k.

3. The volume. Issit enuf to cover mould & development cost (mould ammortization cost)


4. The material of the product u want to produce. Issit a single material (PP, TPE etc) or combination of multiple material (double injection).

5. The process to produce the product. How many process needed to produce the product (i.e injection + painting + assembly of multiple child part) .

Example of waste time thread

Ask for /k help than cabut...

I see a lot of this thread in Serious Kopitiam too.