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Factory Acceptance Tests for injection molds
You are right, all the details should come from the customer. It's very easy to omit some important details however so rather than learning from mistakes I was hoping to see a sample report or template that would have some details that might be missed if a spec for an FAT trial was made up from...- Sold5
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- Forum: Plastics Engineering general discussion
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Factory Acceptance Tests for injection molds
Yes the FAT trials would include molding parts and checking them against the customers critical dimensions as well as a bunch of other stuff like dry cycling the mold to make sure its opening and closing ok, the tool steel used, textures, steel hardening etc etc. It's this detail I was hoping to...- Sold5
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- Forum: Plastics Engineering general discussion
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Factory Acceptance Tests for injection molds
Hi there, Could anyone suggest a resource to find information on how to complete FAT trials for injection molds? Or a sample FAT report for an injection mold from a toolmaker? It's to develop knowledge of a bunch of quality engineers who get molds built and deal with trade molders. Thanks in...- Sold5
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