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Many manufacturing processes that produce economic parts require tools of one sort or another. Such processes include:

• Injection moulding
• Blow moulding
• Rotational moulding
• Extrusion (plastic or aluminium)
• Metal casting (sand tools)
• Gravity and pressure die casting of metals
• Vacuum forming
• Metal pressing
• Form cutting

Tool layout options (especially relevant to injection moulding).

Option 1: Single cavity tools (A tool for every part). This is the most flexible arrangement of materials, colours and quality outcomes but may not be the cheapest tooling.

Option 2: Multi-cavity tools (1 tool per part with 2 or more cavities per tool). This suits higher production quantities and generally leads to lower part costs at the expense of higher tooling costs

Option 3: Family tools (1 or more cavities per part with several parts per tool). This can be the most economic tooling arrangement but requires a common material and colour for all parts. Part quality also becomes inter-dependant.