Traditional plastic manufacturing is a laborious process requiring many steps and extremely expensive machinery.
How many steps? Let’s count them.
- First, you need the mold. Plastic Injection Molds are made from very expensive metal molds which take months to make and cost often well past $1 million dollars each! and heaven help you if you need to modify it. That usually means making a new mold with the same expense and delay.
- Not with PhotonCast! A mold can be created using any number of common 3D printing techniques with molds typically being finished and ready within one day and usually under $20!
- Purchasing or renting an Injection Molding Machine, or have a shop do the work for you. Hand out your check book, do I need to say more?
- PhotonCast does not require any expensive machinery, is easy to use, no high pressure, no high temperatures, no problems! No special training required.
- Mold cost for automatic parts removal start at $50,000, not to mention the Injection Molding Machine capable of automatic parts ejection.
- Part ejection from a PhotonCast mold? Free.
- Special processes like embedded electronics,encapsulated parts, layered carbon fiber, Metal filling? Good luck trying that with Injection Molding.
- PhotonCast? Not a problem at all. Embedding electronics, encapsulated parts, , layered carbon fiber, Metal filling. No problem at all with PhotonCast!
With the PhotonCast method, It’s
1) Print the mold or have the mold printed for you. Typically under $20. Better than the typical $50,000 for a traditional injection mold!
2) Pour or pump resin into the mold
3) Place the mold in PhotonCast, press a button, wait less than 1 minute, Voila! finished part! Not 10 hours, not 1 hour, 1 minute
4) Repeat!
Easily produce plastic parts from start to finish in 2 minutes or less. Yes that’s right, 2 minutes or less!
Need to make 200 parts? Each part takes 6 hours each? Let’s do the math. 6 hours times 60 minutes per hour times 200 parts = 72000 minutes = 50 days!
Not with PhotonCast! Each part takes 2 minutes each. 2 minutes times 200 = 400 minutes. 400 divided by 60 = 6 hrs 35 minutes! Fast enough to complete the complete order within one day with lunch and breaks!
Pennies each, not tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Finished order within a day, not months!
PhotonCast.