Fast Tooling Services
Fast tooling, also named as rapid tooling, is quickly becoming a cost-effective and lean option for prototyping and low volume production. Fast tooling plays an important role in several industries, especially in the production of light-usage or the short-run manufacturing for the automotive, space and so on.
Due to this technique, quite a lot of manufacturers and clients get benefits from it. This technique helps in making the whole production faster, lower costs and effective.
What is Fast Tooling?
Fast tooling(Rapid tooling) is the process that creates a prototype in a short time. It produces parts combining conventional tools with rapid prototyping techniques. Nowadays, before the high volume and full scales production, rapid tooling is ideal for prototyping a model and make a few hundred parts. It becomes an excellent solution to test and evaluate the part whether we want or not.
Rapid tooling techniques can be divided into two categories: indirect rapid tooling and direct rapid tooling. Many different companies worldwide are actively pursuing RT approaches and eliminating or decreasing limitations.
Processes of Fast Tooling
Fast tooling involves different processes depending on the part design parameters.
- 3D printing
3D printing, also named as additive manufacturing can be utilized to create molds and tooling, especially for complex geometries and rapid iterations.
- Plastic injection molding
Plastic injection molding is one of the most common used technique in manufacturing industry. It usually uses in the mass fabrication of plastic parts.
- Die casting
Die casting is a metal casting process in which molten metal is forced into a steel mold under high pressure into a mold cavity. The whole process consists of five steps: clamping, injection, cooling, ejection and trimming.
Advantages of Fast Tooling
Fast tooling is providing the necessary customization for personal applications. It can be better addressed as a supplement.
- It could perfectly reduce the delivery time. Due to its performances, it leads to faster production start-up and fast delivery time to market.
- It will save our money in testing in some degree.
- It could improve our quality control. Because of its cost efficiency, we have the ability to put more budget in the control of quality.
The Future of Fast Tooling
Fast tooling has become the hottest candidate in manufacturing. It enables to offer accelerated production, reduced costs and increased design flexibility. What’s more, it will become a mainstream and conventional technology in the future.
Prototypes and Parts Delivered Fast with 4 Simple Steps
Upload 3D Files
To start your project, simply fill in a few information and upload the 3D files.
Quote & Design Analysis
You'll receive a quote shortly, and we'll send you design for manufacturability (DFM) analysis if necessary.
Order Confirmation
Once you review the quote and place your order, we'll start the manufacturing process. We also offer finishing options.
Parts are Shipped!
Your prototypes or custom manufactured parts will be inspected and delivered straight to your doorstep.