After a new product has been developed, many companies are preparing to open molds to start a small batch of trial production and test market reaction before deciding whether to mass production? How to choose the right mold factory now is very important. Let’s share some tips on the selection of suppliers in China:
Supplier size of your mold factory
At present, there are three types of properties regard with China’s mold processing suppliers: foreign factory, joint venture factory, and private factory. That’s also the order of Quality and service from high to low, same as low costs. For a start-up companies, the price/performance ratio is often a primary consideration, and this is why this kind of company is more inclined to private enterprises. Private enterprises also have large and medium-sized enterprises. As for large-scale manufacturers, their equipment, management will be more standardized, but they all have a fixed market. If you do not have large mold orders, you will feel no sense of existence, it can not be delivered probably. A company that is too small may be a trade company, and it will be handed over to other manufacturers. Thus quality and time will not be guaranteed. Mold suppliers do not necessarily blindly pursue large-scale or low price, the right one with a full set of equipment is the best.
Evaluation of basic situation
A form with evaluation of basic situation for selected supplier is a must, such as sample (sample from factory can help us capture a lot of information, such as process management, success rate / time rate), drawings ( In a good mold factory, drawings are clean, dimensions on the drawings are all tolerance requirements. If there is no experience, it will be repeatedly altered), scheduling plan and quotation (when choosing a mold company, scheduling plans and quotations is a must. You can compare them with other suppliers so that you can find out cost-effective suppliers), projects management capabilities (In the process of production, it is necessary to check the implementation according to project cycle and time nodes reported by suppliers, analyze reasons, discuss treatment and compensation measures if there is an abnormality. Good project management is finding and solving problems in time, not finding a way to recover the damage after loss), after-sales service (a good supplier must have perfect after-sales service, so try not to choose an agent without any physical factory).
How to effectively reduce cost of molds?
Personally think, first of all need to know to expected order quantity of new products from marketing department staff. In the development review stage of new products, if order quantity is not expected to reach 500,000 or more, it is recommended not to harden the mold and directly open soft mold, which is what we usually call test mold. Cost of soft mold is low, if market reacts poorly and unnecessary cost of opening hard mold is saved; if sales market is opened, second set of hard molds, which is called replica mold, can be opened at any time during the first mass production. One obvious advantage is that during the first mold opening process, mold factory will summarize a set of design and production experience, which will have a lot of room for improvement when applied to second set of mold opening. Conversely, if hard mold is expected to be ordered from the beginning of product project, it will only increase your mold purchase cost by at least 1/3;
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