Plastic Component Design For Manufacturability Guidelines UK

Plastic Component Design For Manufacturability Guidelines UK

Manufacturability is not something you check for once a design is finished, it needs to be built into the decisions made much earlier in a project. Andel Plastics provides plastic component design guidance from our Birmingham facility, working through feature by feature to flag anything likely to cause problems once a component reaches injection moulding, from undercuts and thin walls through to draft angles and gate placement. Our engineering team bases this guidance on direct experience running our own moulding machines and in house toolroom, rather than generic textbook rules that do not always hold up in a real production environment. Addressing these issues at the design stage, before tooling is committed to, avoids the far more expensive process of reworking a mould after a problem shows up in production. We work across commodity and technically demanding engineering polymers alike, since manufacturability guidance often shifts depending on the material chosen.

For manufacturers who want a component that moulds cleanly and consistently from the first production run, this early stage guidance is exactly where that reliability starts.