Downloadable guide

What Drives Injection Molding Cost: Tooling, Cycle Time and Volume

A cost guide that follows one part from the drawing to the invoice. It separates the three things people tend to blend together: what the tool costs, what the process costs per shot, and what volume does to both. The point is not to make everything cheaper but to show which choices move the unit price and which ones only move lead time.

What's inside

• Tooling: number of cavities, steel choice and finish, and what each one is really paying for
• Cycle time: cooling, not clamping, is the line item most people misprice
• Volume breakpoints where aluminum tooling, soft tooling or a production tool wins
• What a molder needs in a quotation package to answer with a real number instead of a range