Blog by Trustbridge Design and Manufacturing Team

In injection molding, a poor-fit program is expensive long before the first part is shot. Mold size, press capacity, resin, geometry, tooling, volume and quality requirements all decide whether a program belongs in your shop. Here's how to evaluate them before tooling begins.

A part can be technically manufacturable and still be unnecessarily expensive or difficult to produce. The difference usually comes down to design decisions made before anyone who makes parts for a living looked at the geometry, tolerances and production requirements.

Selling to everyone wastes time and margin. How machine shops define their ideal customer, and use it to market, sell and quote smarter.

Most shop owners can describe their strategy in a sentence. Their quote history often tells a different story. Every RFQ that arrives, every job you choose to quote and every one you win or turn down adds up to a map of where your business is really going.

Most shops only track the jobs they win. Lost quotes show where pricing, fit and speed are costing you work, and what to change.