The level of mold technology ultimately manifests in various aspects such as mold manufacturing cycle, mold service life, mold accuracy and stiffness, mold manufacturing cost, and mold standardization. These are the basis for evaluating the economic and technical indicators of plastic mold processing manufacturers.

1. Mold manufacturing cycle

The mold manufacturing cycle reflects the production technology level and organizational management level of the mold enterprise. When manufacturing molds, efforts should be made to shorten the mold manufacturing cycle. At present, in order to shorten the mold manufacturing cycle, computer-aided design of molds and CNC machining technology have been adopted. Using various methods to design and manufacture various types of molds can shorten the mold manufacturing cycle by more than 60%.

2. Mold service life

Providing the service life of molds is a comprehensive technical issue. At present, in addition to making efforts to research and correctly select the steel used in the mold to improve its service life, it is also applied in various aspects such as mold structure design, manufacturing process methods, debugging equipment, heat treatment process, lubrication conditions during mold use, cooling methods, precision and maintenance of application equipment, and billet condition to improve and enhance.

3. Precision and stiffness of molds

The precision of molds can be divided into the precision required for plastic mold processing parts (i.e. the precision of forming concave and convex molds, cavities, etc.) and the precision required to exert the overall efficiency of molds, such as surface parallelism, verticality, positioning and guiding fit, etc. If the machining accuracy is limited by the machining method and the accuracy of the machining equipment itself. The precision of molds usually refers to the dimensional accuracy of the formed concave, convex, and cavity molds. It includes both static and dynamic accuracy.

For high-speed stamping molds, large-scale stamping forming molds, and precision plastic molds, not only high precision is required, but also sufficient rigidity and no deformation are required under high load working conditions.

4. Mold manufacturing cost

The lower the manufacturing cost of the mold, the higher the level of mold technology, under the achievement of various technical indicators. This requires that when manufacturing molds, in addition to selecting mold materials reasonably, efforts should also be made to reduce processing hours and save various expenses.