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Such molds enable our customers to save on NRE costs at the beginning stages of a new product, and help bring an initial product to market faster. This can unlock investments and produce a bridge production quantity of parts to tide them over until production tooling comes online.

Aluminum is often used as an alternative to harder steel grades in situations that call for faster tool production time and prototype/low volume part production. Though aluminum is a common material in the industry, at present, it’s seldom used by Fictiv.

Corn oil - corn embryo contains 36 ~ 41% oil, for high-quality edible oil and can make margarine.  Corn starch - made of syrup colorless, transparent, high fructose content, can be made of high-grade candy, pastry, bread, jam and a variety of beverages.  Feed - harvested during the maturity of the stalk and cob, is a good silage for dairy cows.  Other - corn in the industry can make alcohol, beer, acetaldehyde, acetic acid, acetone, butanol and so on.

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The main products of corn wet milling are maize starch and corn oil, and the by-products are excellent livestock feed. The main steps are cleaning, soaking, grinding, separating, refining, dehydrating and drying, etc., so that the cellulose, oil, protein and other non-starch materials in the corn kernel are separated, and get the white powdery starch. (You May Interested: Maize starch industry production process and equipment)

Corn milling process techniques include dry and wet processing, both of which are widely used in the maize milling industry, but also have their own advantages and disadvantages. Corn milling business enterprises should be considered comprehensively, choose the processing technology suitable for your own.

If you have plans to get into the corn processing industry to start a corn milling plant business, you can check out this article for some related information. Of course you can also get more information from our special page on corn milling knowledge: Tips For Streamlining Maize Processing Steps>>

The germ is dried to make corn germ oil. The rest is ground again to separate the corn starch, fiber, and gluten. Corn starch is either dried and sold or made into other products such as corn sweeteners, corn syrup, glucose and fructose. The fiber and gluten are used to make feed.

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The core corn processing equipment include: corn milling machine, vibrating screen, de-stoning machine, de-embryo machine, germ extraction machine, corn peeling machine, corn polishing machine, flat sieve, etc.

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Though the sequence described above is typical for Fictiv customers, there are factors which may prompt engineers and product designers to do it differently. Fictiv has a wealth of knowledge and expertise for injection molding, both in the US and overseas, and we’re happy to review and provide DFM feedback on your next tooling project.

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During these validation phases, more than one third of Fictiv customers’ tools require design changes through an ECO, which usually takes 3-5 days to modify the tooling. Single cavity, P20 or NAK80 tooling for ECO’s provides more freedom to make non steel-safe changes than aluminum at a lower cost than a hardened steel, multi-cavity production tool.

If the product demand is high and the designs are finalized and locked, customers typically move to hardened steel, production multi-cavity tooling. The NRE tooling costs are higher, but the minimized unit pricing and cycle times combined with maximized production capacity make it a logical next step in tooling.

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Hardened steels are most often used for high production quantity tooling. They’re typically multiple cavities with hot runner systems. The tool lives are longer but the manufacturing time and tooling costs are the highest of any material. High production quantity tooling is used to minimize part unit costs, which offsets the higher up front NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs.

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Dry milling of corn is a widely used method that consists of several consecutive steps to extract different components from corn kernels. Generally includes removing impurities, adjusting moisture, peeling, breaking grits and de-embryo, lifting grits and lifting embryo, milling , to get corn grits, corn flour.

NAK80 is semi-hardened tool steel, which Fictiv most often uses for highly polished clear or glossy plastic parts. It’s also used when the tooling life needs to be longer than P20 steel or when a part has several side actions. It has similar advantages and disadvantages as P20, plus:

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Usually, Fictiv customers start with single cavity, P20 or NAK80 steel tools for their engineering validation testing (EVT) and design validation testing (DVT). These tools are finished and produce the first samples (T1) in 10-25 days.

There are multiple commonly used grades of metals for tooling, and they’re typically used for the different stages of product development and validation. These different types of materials produce molds that provide assorted achievable tooling lead times and costs, different plastic part cycle times and associated unit costs, and varying levels of dimensional part precision and cosmetic quality of appearance.

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Each type of mold material has its advantages and disadvantages, so it helps to create a “game plan” early in the design process for tooling and bringing your product to market. Here, we’ll discuss the prevalent mold materials, their advantages and disadvantages, and common use cases for each.

Oftentimes engineers and product designers place much focus on selecting the appropriate grade of plastic when developing injection molding part designs. Equally important, though frequently an afterthought, are the metal materials used to manufacture the injection molding tool itself.

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A word of advice: we find that if customers 3d print a prototype set prior to releasing tooling, the need for ECO’s is drastically reduced.

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Corn, as the world's most important food crop with the highest total production, is rich in nutrients and has a variety of uses. Corn milling, the process of transforming corn grains into various valuable products (maize flour, corn grits, corn starch and some by-products.) , plays a pivotal role in the food industry. This paper focuses on the two main methods of corn milling - dry milling and wet milling - and provides insights into the processing steps, processing machinery and technological advances in the maize milling industry.

Corn dry milling process is a less versatile and less capital intensive process technology. In the corn milling process, the corn milling machines relies on a pair of opposite differential rotation to remove the skin, extract the endosperm, and grind the corn kernels into fine-grained corn flour. (Read More: small scale maize milling machines cost in Kenya)

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This grade of steel is the most commonly used for high production quantity tooling, and is good for thermal fatigue, and longer tooling life. It can better resist wear from some plastic materials, such as those with glass-filled additives, than the metal materials previously listed.

P20 is a commonly used, general purpose tool material. It strikes a strong balance between cost, available tooling lead time, part quality and dimensional part stability. Fictiv often uses another grade of steel, 718H, which is a bit harder than P20, but has the same general advantages and disadvantages.