Natech Plastics specializes in design for injection molding.
We are an ISO-certified, family-owned provider of engineering, custom injection molding, and contract manufacturing. Our clients bring demanding applications requiring design for injection molding services and best served by expert engineers.
Design for injection molding (DFIM) focuses on how mold design affects part design when optimizing your plastic part. Failing to consider DFIM can increase risks like encountering wall thickness issues and part damage from ejection method. DFIM molding helps reduce those hassles and unnecessary risks.
OUR DESIGN FOR INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS
Design for manufacture (DFM) and design for injection molding (DFIM) are crucial steps in the product development process. These process involve optimizing a part, product, or component’s design for manufacturing and assembly. Successful DFM and DFIM includes reducing manufacturing costs, minimizing production and assembly complexity, and improving quality.
Engineers and designers should work together during DFM to anticipate potential problems, like quality issues and long cycle times, while maintaining design intent. Watch one of our engineers walk through a DFIM that enhanced the part aesthetics, improved the ejection method, and reduced quality risks.
INJECTION MOLDING IN USA
We take pride in the workmanship of our design for injection molding services. All Natech tools and production parts are made in the USA. We run three shifts per day, five days per week, and weekends are run on an as-needed basis.
All our injection molding presses are equipped with servo-driven robotics for high-speed automation and production.
Clients trust Natech to be the experts in engineering and manufacturing. Our engineers’ experience includes mold qualifications in medical IQ/OQ/PQ, high volume automation in consumer packaging, and engineering-grade resins and ultra-polymers in electronics.
We have developed hundreds of products and manufactured millions of parts annually for the medical industry. Medical devices include point of care diagnostics, microfluidics, and pharmaceutical drug delivery applications.
Here are some examples of issues that Natech engineers addressed during design for injection molding:
Component Reduction:
Eliminating the unnecessary component decreased the mold count, assembly operations, assembly risk, and piece price cost, saving the program over $55,000.
Reducing Risks by Reducing Features:
After a Design for Manufacturability analysis, the Natech engineers discovered the excessive ribbing posed major ejection risks. The engineers reduced the number of ribs and other features, which reduced risks and costs.
CONSUMER PLASTIC MOLDED PRODUCTS
For the consumer market we specialize in the automated production of high-volume disposables, unit-dose packaging, caps and closures, and over-the counter diagnostics and drug delivery applications.
In the electronics market we draw upon deep experience in comprehensive analysis and testing for evaluation and verification to design and build lighter, more durable electronics components.
Each development project requiring design for injection molding services is managed by a Project Engineer who monitors and controls deliverables and provides regular status updates. Learn how Natech can guide you from development to manufacture with DFIM.
Injection molding can introduce a gate vestige. The location of that gate vestige on the part might impact quality. Our engineers will let you know how DFIM can avoid quality issues for your project.
Natech’s projects that include design for injection molding services are supported by MoldFlow Analysis, a Viscosity Curve, a Cavity Balance Study, a Pressure Window Characterization, a Gate Seal Time Study, and a Cooling Time Study. Natech engineers are masters of insert configuration and design single-cavity R&D molds with steel inserted areas. Interchangeable plates, inserts, and sub-inserts allow for more rapid design iterations at LOWER cost than creating new molds for each feature variation. SPI Class 103 and 104 molds are constructed from P20 steel and aluminum with hot runners and cold runners.
The production molds for design for injection molding projects include high cavitation SPI Class 101 and 102 molds constructed from hardened steel. Cold, runner, hot sprue, and hot runner molds are designed with up to 128 cavities.
PRECISION PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING
Our precision injection molding options include scientific molding, R&D molding, high-cavitation molding, micro molding, over molding, and insert molding.
Our mold maintenance plans for projects that include design for injection molding services ensure each mold undergoes regular cleaning and review at predefined intervals based upon the number of setups and cycles. Mold inspections, general mold maintenance, major mold maintenance and preventative maintenance are standard operating procedures.
Our mid to high-volume automated and semi-automated manufacturing of plastic injection-molded components and assemblies for single-use, metered-dose, and multi-use disposables for the drug delivery, consumer packaging and diagnostics industries offer high quality at economical value.
Our product finishing capabilities include hot stamping, banding, pad printing, silk screening, flaw coating, conductive painting, cosmetic painting, metalizing, and plating.
Our assembly and joining capabilities include product filling, foil/heat sealing, ultrasonic welding, heat staking, mechanical assembly, pinning & UV/hot melt gluing, custom packaging/kitting, and pouching.
We provide design for injection molding services in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Michigan and other regions.
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