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Tooling Risk Assessment
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-14
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-hardware
Assess an injection-mold or production tooling decision before cutting steel — soft vs hard tooling tradeoff, tool life vs forecast, cavitation math, T1 sample timeline, cost of design changes after tooling, and kill criteria. Use when asked whether to kick off tooling, choose soft vs hard tools, size cavities, review a tooling quote, or assess the risk of tooling before the design is frozen. Produces a tooling risk assessment with capacity math, a decision recommendation, and explicit kill criteria.
What to give it
▸Part list going to tool — which parts, materials, cosmetic surfaces
▸Forecast — peak monthly/weekly demand and lifetime volume, with confidence
▸Design maturity — which build validated this geometry (pre-EVT? post-DVT?)
▸Cycle time estimates — and target resin(s)
▸Tooling quotes — if in hand — cost, cavitation, steel type, lead time
▸Hard dates — launch window that the T1 timeline must serve
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Cavitation math is shown, not asserted, and uses peak demand — not average
✓Tool life is checked against lifetime volume per cavity
✓The timeline includes tuning loops, not just T1
✓Every open design question is mapped to an ECO cost class
✓Kill criteria are specific and dated — someone could actually invoke them
✓Capital at risk is totalled, including tools that may be scrapped
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not size cavitation on average demand — peak week plus downtime overhead or the launch starves
Do not cut hard tools on a design that has not survived its reliability testing — that is buying a very expensive opinion
Do not let the schedule assume T1 parts are shippable — T1 parts are for tuning
Do not treat "the factory says it's fine" as a change-risk analysis — classify each open question yourself
Do not present a tooling recommendation without kill criteria — the moment to define "stop" is before the spend
Install
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