Ideal Tech, Inc.
29777 Telegraph Road, Suite 2500,
Southfield, MI 48034 Phone 248 827 3820
Fax 248 281 0395 email - info@idealtech.net
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Engineering Services
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As a part of professional and detailed report when we perform analysis services, you will receive a CD/email/disk that would let you see how a part will fill before you kick off your tooling allowing you to make the right decision at product design stages and avoid big cost of engineering changes. It would also point out possible product design issues, tooling issues, as well as some process issues that may need your attention now. Make your customer comfortable with your proactive and preventive measures right from product design level and exceed their expectations and quality requirements before you kick-off any tools.
The above part was being considered for 7-8 inch wide gate or 3 drops. Ideal Tech was invited to resolve this and this part was filled with 1 1/2 inch size wide gate with one drop after some key input from Ideal Tech was incorporated saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in a possible tooling issue. Such input may involve design, material, process, tooling, or else but are you getting such input to resolve your problems and most importantly save costs? One simple suggestion resulted in thousands of dollars in gate fixture costs, scrap rate, cycle time, simple one drop per part manifold design (saved three drop manifold costs), reduced tooling costs, and more. How much did it cost compared to all these savings ? Only a fraction of total savings. On the bottom part with 16 cavity mold already in production, we were able to reduce the cycle time by 9 sec by incorporating few changes at a fraction of percentage of overall savings (25% cycle time reduction). Many times you can get results in a hours or days but are you eliminating your problems? Are you just paying for confirming your already known gate selection/problems? Are you just paying because you have to do CAE. It does not have to be that way. Use CAE to your benefits and use to predict problems, take preventive measures and get quality parts first time but this is possible only if you have the right source or you may be paying for some quick and easy simulation and advise that is just cheap.
Do you know this - very rarely you will find that you can not fill the part because of your gate selection. So if you are making the right gate selection then why do you need to pay for analysis services? Well first of all you have to start using CAE tools to optimize the whole process of making plastics parts from concept, design, tooling to molding and only then you would really benefit over the long run to save tremendous costs and timing. Unless you know accuracy, expertise, and optimization of process is being blended in every simulation that you perform, you may not be realizing the benefits of using good expertise and sources for all plastics parts requirements. |
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