As new products are conceived, designed, and produced it is almost always necessary to produce prototypes and first articles for functional product testing, color selection, customer acceptance, and product marketing evaluation. Low Volume Injection Molding can be a key component to the Product Development of Plastic Injected Molded products as you can produce prototypes and first articles very quickly and relatively inexpensively. This is primarily due to the low cost and simplicity of both the machine design and tooling utilized in an Electro-Matic Vertical Injection Molding machine. High volume injection molding machines are not usually practical for producing prototypes as they require production level multi-cavity tooling which is expensive and can take dozens of weeks to produce. These concepts are discussed in depth in the e-book “The Ultimate Guide to Low Volume Injection Molding”