Improvements to Our Manufacturing Process

In order to scale up our yo-yo, the most pressing issue we will face is the method we used to color our yoyo.  For the small scale production of 50 yoyos, we were able to apply stickers to each face of the thermoforming parts in order to get the color contrast on our final product.  However, as we scale up to the production of hundreds of thousands of parts, we will not have the ability to do this effectively.  Instead, we can look into large-scale painting efforts, and using different colored plastic sheets to thermoform.  

For example, instead of thermoforming clear plastic, and stickering one part of the thermoform mold, and applying a base color behind the mold, we can thermoform the part one color by using colored plastic, and then eliminate the hassle of attaching stickers.  In order to get the second color contrast, we could spray paint on an industrial scale.  The other major issue we faced during production was the length of thermoforming the biohazard sign.

Due to the complexity and scale of the features of the mold, the added heat time and cooling time made production longer than a usual thermoforming part.  In order to shorten this for a large scale production, we may have to simplify the mold, or change the tooling such that the thermoform die does not have such deep cavities, which require the increase in the length of time.