Injection Molding: Crush Ribs This post is part of our Injection Molding Design Guide series. Press-fit connections can be tricky to manufacture via injection molding if you’ve never heard of crush ribs. These structures can help your production process run smoothly while ensuring your parts fit and hold together correctly after the process is [...]

Injection Molding: Draft Angle This post is part of our Injection Molding Design Guide series. With plastic injection molding, it is important to design for manufacturability. To do this, you must take every step of the process into consideration, including ejection from the mold. Even though the part may form correctly in the mold, [...]

Injection Molding: Rib Design This post is part of our Injection Molding Design Guide series. Ribs can be instrumental to your part’s structural success. If used correctly, you can avoid the main problems caused by walls being too thick and abrupt changes in wall thickness. In this article, we’ll discuss what ribs are, what [...]

Injection Molding: Wall Thickness This post is part of our Injection Molding Design Guide series. Wall thickness is one of the primary design concerns when it comes to plastic injection molding. Improperly designed walls can lead to many costly problems and production setbacks. In this article, we’ll discuss how your material influences your [...]

Injection Mold Design Injection molding is the fastest mass manufacturing process available for plastic parts. As such, you can get your parts to consumers faster and cheaper than any other method. However, designing your parts to be injection molded can be quite tricky if you don’t know the best practices for this specific process. [...]