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What is the difference between mold and prototype?
The prototype is simply a sample of the product. When your design drawings come out, the designed product is generally not perfect, or even unusable. Once the direct production is defective, it will be scrapped, which greatly wastes manpower, material resources and time; The prototype is generally a small number of samples, the production cycle is short, the waste of manpower and material resources is small, and the shortcomings of the product design can be quickly found to improve, providing sufficient basis for product finalization and mass production. Because of this, some places call it "the first board", which is the first model of the product, to illustrate the meaning of the prototype more vividly. In Japan, the prototype is also called "hands", and its English name is "rapid" prototype".
A mold is a production tool that can produce parts with a certain shape and size. That is to say, molds, such as TV sets, telephone shells, plastic barrels, and other commodities, are produced by injecting plastic heating software into molds for cooling. The rice steamer is also pressed into such a shape by a metal plate with a mold. Any product is made with molds. It can be said that there is no production of products without molds.
Although there are so many differences between prototypes and molds, they are still related. Generally, the prototype is first confirmed to the customer by hand, and then the mold is opened for mass production. The cost of manufacturing many physical molds is generally very high, and the value of large molds is 100,000 or even millions, especially in the medical industry. If there is an unreasonable structure or other problems in the process of installing the mold, this is very big. The prototype model can solve this loss problem and reduce the risk of manufacturing solid models.
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