Great Profit Margins Happen in Design, Not Production

You envision a product with features that will make it a hit in the marketplace. You’ll be able to charge above average or even a premium price for it.

As all good leaders know, top line doesn’t pay the bills, the bottom line does.

Enacting that vision into a design is where success happens. Designing a product that is manufacturable does more for the bottom line than managing the production that makes the product.

When it comes to plastic and composite components, often the framework, housing or enclosure for your product, sets your production team up for success or struggle.

                       

First there is the huge task of selecting a resin or composite to design around. There are tens of thousands of resins out there to choose from. Is your design team up on their material science to go about picking the right one? Will the resin/composite supplier steer you in the right direction for you, or for them? Talk to your injection molding supplier, they are the ones closest to the real world use environment and have practical experience to help you select what is best for you. That is, of course, if your molder has material scientists on their staff. You should ask. PlastiCert’s engineers are graduates of the ONLY composite material engineering undergraduate degree program in the country. Delivering constant successes for our customers stems from knowing the resins and what they will do in an injection molding press through understanding, rather than trial and error. Trial and error will add TIME and COST to your development timeline, a burden you do not need in your time to market competition!

Secondly comes manufacturability. Every designed component has to be translated into features within the injection mold. If your designers go straight from concept to CAD file and 3D printing, you may end up with a form and fit part, but will it be moldable? There are MANY features that are easy to do on a 3D printer but are extremely expensive or even impossible when you go to design and make a mold. Including your injection molder in the discussion early in concept CAD work, again will save TIME and COST in getting to a production release and finished product. PlastiCert provides design assistance to its established customers as a part of doing business. We recognize that helping you makes for a more profitable customer, but it also helps us to make our floor more efficient as well. PlastiCert excels at having capacity available at all times to allow our small volume short run customers to get parts when they need them to allow them to be flexible and nimble where inventory is concerned.

                                          

                        

Are you currently engaged with a molder committed to YOUR bottom line success? Looking to do business as you need it? Charging consulting fees, building expensive overly complicated molds that benefit themselves first? Mandating minimum production run sizes and costly scrap numbers and carrying fees?

Contact PlastiCert, we have been helping small and midsize OEMs with successful product introductions for many years, we are masters of the small and medium volume production run with lead times most molders wish for. That is how we won our World Class Processor award and FOUR Plastics Technology TOP SHOP awards in spite of not being a high volume processor (which cost us evaluation points).

                                       

Call PlastiCert, we will get you to market.