Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for injection moulding companies.
A checklist built from how injection moulding companies work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Mould register
- Press schedule
- Resin and regrind records
- Shift production log
- Approval shots and checks during the run
- Secondary operations and dispatch
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For plant managers
- For planners
- For operators and setters
- For toolroom staff
- For quality inspectors
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Press utilisation and downtime by mould and shift
- Moulds ranked by shots since last service
- Quoted against actual cycle time by part
- Reject types and rates by cavity and resin lot
- Resin and regrind consumed against parts produced
- Parts sent out and returned from secondary operations
- Open customer schedules with delivery status
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Tablet entry at the press
- Barcode label printer
- Accounting export
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Does it track the mould or only the press?
- Can shot counts come straight from the machine?
- How does it handle regrind?
- Can it work for customer-owned moulds?
- What about insert moulding and assemblies?
- Can operators use it with gloves and a noisy floor?
- Can records leave the system?
- What does the demo and quotation look like?
- Is training included for the floor?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- Shot counts live on the press
- Material history missing from the part
- Quoted cycle time drifts from actual
- Mould changes eat the schedule
- Rejects have no cause attached
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