Productivity and Accuracy in Plastic Injection Mould Quotation

The quotation in the field of injection mould tool manufacturing is still so difficult mission and means so great challenge that leads the manufacturers be more bottleneck providing huge differences between the results of cost and time calculation following hand-rules or experiments. The simple cause of this is the very fact they must estimate the mould’s design and manufacturing time and cost – with unknown tool structure and complexity – based on an elastic or plastic product. The aim of authors is to summarise existing quotation methods and to introduce the principle concept of an experimental cost estimation system, which can calculate the realistic cost and time demands in advance based on local design and manufacturing environment.