#PRODUCTION TOOL FULL#
There are numerous prototype tooling injection moulders out there, but it’s important to recognize that their expertise may not match the expertise that a full production shop has. Glass-fill materials also cause more wear and maintenance. P20 requires a bit more care in maintenance to ensure the tool doesn’t rust in the meantime. While costs are minimal over large runs, the smaller runs of typical production start-ups may mean that a tool is run once, then shelved for six months. Injection moulding parts are cost effective, but there is a significant set-up that’s usually rolled into the cost of the parts. P20 is often used as a cost-effective tool, but the steel may see more wear over time. A lot of injection moulders simply choose not to work with aluminium because the cost savings compared to P20 steel tools aren’t that great with off-shore tooling, and there are significant compromises with aluminium tools. Aluminium tools have the advantage that machining is easier, but it comes at the cost of not having the same thermal mass and cooling as a standard steel tool. Prototype injection moulding comes in a couple of forms, namely aluminium or steel tools, like P20. In this blog I’ll concentrate on injection moulding, but there are analogs for other processes. So what does one get with “prototype” tooling? The answer can be “a lot”. Tooling for any product can be very expensive, and without knowing how many will be sold, the return on investment (ROI) for the capital expense of tooling may fall into a grey area – maybe the ROI will be acceptable if volumes are high, but maybe not if we don’t hit the sales we think we could.įull production tooling is expensive and a lot of the time can’t be justified. The best answer begins with other questions: “What quality do you really need?”, and “How many are you making?”Īll products have a life cycle, and graphs like these can be seen in various forms:įor start-ups of unique medical devices, there often isn’t even a similar product in the portfolio that the the initial slope can be estimated, and so we’re left with a best guess. Hopefully, this blog post can help you to start with using PRT applications.Īppreciate it if you have any comments, suggestions, or questions.Dana Trousil in Manufacturing | No comments Prototype vs Production tooling “What’s the difference between production tooling vs prototype?” and “What quality can I expect?” are often questions that I get asked from development or clients.
#PRODUCTION TOOL PORTABLE#
It can be a document, manual, guidelines, an equipment, portable machinery or a material. It can be any object like a screw driver, a plier, which are used repeatedly in process of manufacturing but are never delivered with the product. Now you know what is PRT and how simple it is. Miscellaneous PRT is pure PRT master data and it is maintained by T-code CF01/CF02. Document which is allowed to used as PRT can be customized! There is a tab to maintain PRT info on equipment.ĭocument PRT is maintained by T-code CV01N/CV02N.
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There is a tab to maintain PRT info on a material.Įquipment PRT is maintained by T-code IE01/IE02. Material PRT is maintained by T-code MM01/MM02. for example, the unit, location and authorization group of PRT.ĭefault Data defines attributes including scheduling data and formula which are used to control how a PRT is used in transactions( e.g. One is Basic Data and the other one is Default Data.īasic Data defines basic attributes of PRT. In Project System (Network and Activities) – PRT can be used by certain activities in Network to calculate how many PRTs would be needed.In Plant Maintenance and Customer Service (PM & CS) – PRT can be used by the operations in Maintenance Task List and finally taken into Maintenance Order.In Production Planning (PP) – PRT can be assigned in Routing and finally taken into Production Order.
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This means Master data related to Material, Equipment and Document can be used as PRT and any resources or tools other than these can be categorized as Miscellaneous or Other PRT. In Production Planning world, Production Resource/Tool(PRT) is a kind of master data. Production Resources and Tools are movable/non stationary operating resource, that are required to perform an activity and can be used repeatedly during the manufacturing process. For example machinery, instruments, equipments, tools, documents, etc., some are stationary, big in size and some are movable, small in size, some are trivial but extremely useful. In a manufacturing industry, other than raw materials there are number of things needed to manufacture a product.