Tuesday, October 22, 2013

3 Important Benefits Of Prototyping In The Plastic Manufacturing Industry

By Shamcey De Guzman


For many years, prototypes have been really beneficial to manufacturing companies. Prototypes are used as basis for the final product and every adjustment made on the product is always based from these prototypes. In the plastic industry, a prototype is one of the most important elements to create a finish product without any defects. Since they are mass producing different plastic products, here are some of the many benefits that the manufacturing industry can obtain.

Product Problems will be Lessened

Many companies in the manufacturing industry suffered from product recalls in the past just because of one defective product. If a company is mass producing items and one of the products is found to have problems or defects, there is a big possibility that the other products on that batch will also have the same problems.

Through the help of a prototype, all these defects will be found before the product is mass produced. During the testing phase of the products, the defects will already be found and they will prevent it from being sold on the market.

Prevents Financial Losses to the Companies

When a product recall is done by a company, the products with defects will be recalled and they will be fixing the fault or create a new batch. Though this is normal to some companies, it will surely cause a big financial loss to the companies especially if the products are expensive. Just imagine the losses that the company can experience if they have to recall a whole batch of products and replace them.

This will surely be a problem to most companies if these issues will be more frequent since it will severely affect their finances. All these defects and financial problems can be prevented and you can even adjust the design of the product before you produce them.

Better Adjustment on Features and Design

You can easily adjust the design and fix some of the features of the product during the process without causing any problems on the manufacturing. Basically, changing the features and design will be easier with prototypes because they will not negatively affect the manufacturing process. The manufacturers will not have any problems with this and they can ask for more adjustments until they are satisfied.

As you can see, prototyping together with injection molding can really benefit the plastic industry in many ways. These benefits will help you understand how important it is to consider prototyping.




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