China has closed all boarders due to the threat of another COVID-19 Virus outbreak and does not expect to reopen until early 2021. Tooling programs that have started need to be validated before shipment as well as many new programs, with no foreigners able to visit China for the validations.
Most countries in the world rely on the capabilities and capacity of China’s injection mold industry for fast and reliable tooling construction. After validation in China the tools are shipped to global destination for molding productions. A standard procedure for many years has been to send tooling engineers to China to approve plastic part dimensional studies, produce samples and to validate the final tooling before shipment. This is not possible now, neither is shipping programs without validations.
YSM Mould has established a team of tooling engineers from the USA and England to manage Third-Party tooling validations in conjunction with the internal quality and engineering department. It made it possible to monitor and report all aspects of the trials until the tooling is ready for shipment.