What's the difference between mold and tooling? Please describe it in simple and popular words.

Mould: tools used in industrial production, various moulds to obtain the required products through injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, die casting or forging, melting and stamping.

Tooling: refers to the device used to fix the processed object in the process of mechanical manufacturing, so that it occupies the correct position for construction or testing.

2. Different applicable objects

Mould: suitable for unformed workpieces.

Tooling: suitable for forming workpieces.

3. Different functions

Mould: used to make workpiece model.

Tooling: used to fix the position of the workpiece for inspection.

Extended data:

Moulds are widely used for blanking, die forging, cold heading, extrusion, powder metallurgy parts pressing, pressure casting, compression molding or injection molding of engineering plastics, rubber, ceramics and other products.

Generally, it includes two parts: a moving die and a fixed die (or a male die and a female die), which can be separated and combined. When parting, the parts are taken out, and when closing, the blank is injected into the mold cavity for molding.

Die is a precision tool with complex shape, which bears the tension of the blank and requires high structural strength, stiffness, surface hardness, surface roughness and machining accuracy. The development level of mold production is one of the important symbols of mechanical manufacturing level.

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