Plastic Injection Molding | Mold Design | Mold Flow Analysis | Tooling | Molded Parts
Mold Flow Analysis Improves Injection Molding Design
What is Mold Flow Analysis?
Mold flow analysis uses simulation software to predict how molten plastic will fill a mold cavity during the injection molding process. It also provides valuable insight into part cooling behavior and helps optimize processing parameters before any steel is cut.
While there are other ways to evaluate mold performance, running a digital analysis is faster, more cost-effective, and far more efficient than physically building a mold, shooting sample parts, and iterating on steel modifications.
By using mold flow early in the design phase, product developers and engineers can prevent costly defects like short shots, sink, and warpage. This proactive approach leads to higher-quality molded parts, shorter lead times, and reduced overall tooling and production costs.
Mold makers and injection molding teams alike benefit from reviewing mold flow results as it creates alignment, highlights potential issues, and helps everyone make smarter tooling decisions.
Included with Our DFM Support
We often include mold flow analysis as part of our broader Design for Manufacturability (DFM) stage when a Tooling/Molding PO is placed.
If you need a comprehensive mold flow analysis as a separate service, whether to support internal design reviews, investor presentations, or early-stage decision making, we also offer stand-alone analysis. This includes detailed reports covering:
- Flow, fill, and pack behavior
- Weld line and air trap prediction
- Warpage, shrinkage and cooling
- Clamp force and cycle time estimates
Affordability | Prompt Service
If you have a project that could benefit from mold flow simulation, contact us today. We offer fast turnaround times, highly affordable analysis, and actionable feedback to help you make informed tooling decisions before cutting steel. Whether you're troubleshooting an existing mold or validating a new design, our experience in DFM, tooling, and processing ensures you get real-world solutions, not just software outputs.
Mold flow Analysis works hand-in-hand with our Design for Manufacturability (DFM) review to catch potential issues before they become expensive problems. By combining early simulation with expert tooling feedback, we help optimize gate location, flow balance, venting, packing, and warpage all while you're still in the design phase. A few hours of analysis up front can save weeks of troubleshooting and costly mold modifications down the road.
The sooner we run your models, the more value you’ll gain.
Send us your part files and let’s review it together