How to reduce the manufacturing cost mould design?

Mold development account for a large part of the cost in product development, including plastic mold, metal stamping mold, and so on,. Since the costs involved and natural profit is directly linked with the final product. How do we to control or reduce the mold development costs as much as possible? In manufacturing high speed development today, how to reduce the development cycle is long, the cost of the die, become a new goal. 1, the products material selection on the premise of meet the requirements of product strength, enterprises should try to use more common on the market and the general, the material of high cost performance, we worked for several companies developing mold, for example, there are some heating element need to be resistant to high temperature of 300 degrees, must use PEEK materials, and some means of high temperature 270 degrees, usually available LCP or PPS to do. There is great disparity, PEEK your lowest price for engineering materials is nearly 1000 yuan/kg, and LCP with PPS is not more than 100, some product development companies actually don't know the highest temperature on the product, and want to do more insurance it, obviously can't more than 270 degrees, try to use 300 degrees to their own products, of course, some of the local tyrants willfulness is also normal, the key still see product positioning. 2, product structure model of product development, more should consider product commonality. In addition, the product to simplify structure, to avoid mold process increase or mold structure is complicated. 3, the application of concurrent engineering plastic mould synchronous project is in the stage of product design, mold design engineer early intervention in terms of product manufacturability analysis, to eliminate the errors and defects in the design phase, shorten the development cycle of mold. Can be seen from the diagram, using synchronous engineering saves a process link, after the tooling manufacturing in the shortest possible time to start, provide sufficient time for manufacturing. 4, mold design, mold structure design, some structures are redundant. For example, in order to guarantee smooth pick-up, mold tend to retain pneumatic lifter device, this hardly used in practical production. 5, the service life of the mold steel mold request directly affect the mold material selection. My company usually requires the service life of mould for 500000 times, but at present many varieties, small batch production, the service life of the mould continues to some owe reasonable according to the requirement of the 500000 times. Can reduce the mold wall thickness, appropriate to reduce the cost. Although this year to our country related mold industry gets rapid development, but just has been called flints, want to buy the high quality of steel is not easy, plastic mold manufacturing is commonly used in steel P20 and 718 h, S136, NAK80, etc. , for cosmetic requirements are not particularly high and simple structure of the product can choose mold directly the original body, under the premise of meeting the mould of high life requirement, can choose according to the size of the working part of the necessary parts whole blocks or split set pieces. There are many factors which can affect the cost of mould manufacturing, each enterprise is not the same as the actual situation, the requirement of mold is different also. Above these, it is our factory based on the actual analysis, conclusion and some advice, hope can bring a little inspiration to colleagues.