Why Standard Components Win
Every hour a mold maker spends cutting a standard leader pin, boring a bushing, or fabricating a sprue bushing is an hour not spent on the cavity and core — the parts of the mold that actually define the product. Standard mold components exist to eliminate that waste, and the DMS Components catalog is one of the most complete sources in North America.
What the DMS Catalog Covers
DMS serves toolmakers, molders, and diecasters with more than 12,000 items, including:
- Mold bases — standard and custom configurations.
- Ejector components — ejector pins, core pins, sleeve ejectors, blade ejectors, return pins.
- Alignment — leader pins, bushings, tapered interlocks.
- Mold-entry items — sprue bushings, locating rings, date stamps, gating inserts.
- Mechanisms — unique mechanisms, unscrewing devices, modular water manifolds.
- Finishing — mold polishing items, heating and cooling components, full-color mold plaques.
With over 2,000 customers and distribution across Canada and the USA, DMS has spent more than 45 years standardizing the components mold makers use every day.
How Tooling Components Makes It Simple
Tooling Components organizes the DMS range into 10 product sections — from Section A (pins & bushings) through Section J (special drawings) — and stocks the standard sizes at its Erie, PA warehouse:
- 15,000+ SKUs across all sections.
- Same-day shipping for stocked items.
- Hot-shot delivery within 100 miles of Erie when a line is down.
- Component-level purchasing — buy the pins, sleeves, bushings, and guide rails instead of a finished mold base, and cut both cost and lead time.
The Bottom Line
Standard components reduce mold cost, compress lead time, and make maintenance predictable. When the mold eventually needs a replacement pin or a worn bushing, the part number is already in the catalog and the part is already on the shelf.
Related catalog item: This is the full range — mold bases, ejector pins and sleeves, core pins, leader pins and bushings, side locks, locating rings, mold springs, drill bushings, punches, die sets, and water connectors. If it is in the DMS catalog, Tooling Components can get it for you.
Call us at (800) 992-4766 or send your component list — we will quote stock and delivery while you are on the phone.