What is a smart mold?

What is a smart mold? The word "smart" is a topic that everyone has been caring and curious about. There are intelligent robots, smart phones, smart bathroom systems... All smart products need to be built on the basis of smart molds. So what is smart mold? First of all, we must talk about smart manufacturing equipment.

Intelligent manufacturing equipment is manufacturing equipment with sensing, analysis, decision-making and control functions. Smart molds also have sensing, analysis, decision-making and control functions. Stamping molds and die-casting molds with sensing and temperature control functions have temperature control functions. Injection molds, such as injection molding parameters and in-mold flow conditions, are all intelligent molds.

With the unsustainable low-cost human resources and the continuous development of science and technology in China, automation and intelligent manufacturing must become an important development direction of modern manufacturing, and smart molds will also develop rapidly. The use of intelligent molds to produce products can further improve product quality and production efficiency, more material, automated production and green manufacturing. Therefore, although the current total amount of smart molds is still small, it represents a new development direction of mold technology, and will play an increasingly important role in the industrial product structure adjustment and development mode transformation. The development of intelligent molds will inevitably play a powerful role in promoting the rapid improvement of the entire mold industry. Therefore, it is especially necessary to give priority to the development of smart molds in the development of the industry.

Experts summed up the intelligent molds for emerging strategic industries: energy-saving and environmentally friendly molds for energy-saving and environmental protection industries.

These molds mainly include molds for energy saving and emission reduction of automobiles, high-gloss non-marking and in-mold assembly decorative molds, laminating molds and rotating molds, multi-color and multi-tools manufactured by intelligent control means such as injection molding parameters and in-mold flow state. Material injection mold, multi-layer co-extrusion compound mold, multi-functional composite high-efficiency mold, LED new light source supporting mold and high-efficiency energy-saving motor steel sheet stamping die.

A precision, ultra-precision mold with sensing functions for the next-generation information technology industry. These types of molds mainly include large-scale integrated circuit lead frame precision multi-station progressive die, multi-cavity multi-injection head lead frame precision rubber-plastic package mold, electronic components and connectors, high-precision high-speed multi-station progressive die, new generation Efficient multi-row precision multi-station progressive die and multi-function composite high-efficiency forming die for electronic components, intelligent forming mold for plastic parts of new generation electronic products, high-precision multilayer light guide plate mold and ultra-precision mold for IoT sensor.

Precision ultra-precision molds for medical devices serving the bio-industry. These molds mainly manufacture precision ultra-precision medical device injection molds, cutting-edge components metal (stainless steel, etc.) powder injection molds, biochip molds, etc. through intelligent control methods such as plastic injection molding parameters and in-mold flow conditions.

Intelligent molds for the "high-end equipment manufacturing industry". These molds mainly include large-scale precision stamping dies for large-scale CNC forming stamping equipment, precision forging dies for heavy-duty forging equipment, large-scale temperature-controlled precision casting dies for clean high-efficiency casting equipment, and large-scale for non-metal forming equipment. Precision plastic molds and high-grade radial tires and giant engineering tire molds, large precision CNC for large CNC bending machines and intelligent bending machines can be debugged without indentation bending molds and intelligent bending molds, aerospace and defense industry special Material forming molds and rapid molds, special casting and forging dies for the aerospace and defense industry, special non-ferrous metal stamping dies, EMU gearbox dies and ultra-high speed (>300 km/h) precision bearing dies, optical products for military products Spherical lenses and special lens forming dies, plastic metal and other materials, ultra-thin and ultra-fine parts and forming parts, high-speed manufacturing of metal and non-metal materials, fast and efficient intelligent forming molds and so on.

A mold for serving the new energy industry. Such molds mainly include new blade molds, spindle molds and motor molds for megawatt wind turbines.

A mold for the new energy automotive industry. These types of molds mainly include new energy vehicle battery molds, new energy vehicle shifting device molds, new energy vehicles with plastic-made steel and light metal-generation steel molds, energy-saving automobile hybrid power unit molds, automobile cover parts hot forming molds and multi-station automation. Stamping dies, etc.