How a Texas Mold Shop Cleared 6 Weeks of Mold Insert Queue Without Adding Headcount

The Situation: A Full Floor, a New Program, and 40+ H13 Cavity Inserts Nowhere to Go. The program in question was an 8-cavity German industrial mold. Solid work, clear drawings, a customer they wanted to keep. The problem: the tooling budget had been quoted before all the insert complexity was fully understood. By the time the drawings were in hand, it was clear the original number wasn't going to hold.

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CK Phua, Founder of Rapid Machined Inserts

7/13/2026