Injection Molding for Analytical Instruments
Service Detail from RPWORLD
PROJECT BACKGROUND
A company well-known for superior analytical instruments and laboratory equipment opted for RPWORLD to produce 100 units assembly parts of a Spectrometer per order, the total demand is 400 sets per year.
CHALLENGES
- How to select the most suitable manufacturing processes to meet the customer’s requirements?
-How to achieve the good surface effect and mechanical performance for the products?
-How to guarantee high quality and meet client’s tight deadline?
• After meticulous analysis and discussion, we chose vacuum casting combined with over-molding process, for the metal parts, we use CNC machining and sheet metal process.
• Internal copper painting for EMC.
Material Selection
• ABS performance Polyurethane Resin, PC,TPE
• Rubber to be over-molded
• Stainless steel, aluminum
| • Rapid prototyping and testing | 7 days |
| • Silicon mold manufacturing and testing | 3 days |
| • 100 units replication by urethane casting | 15 days |
| • After-treatment by specialist | 5 days |
| • Total | 30 days |
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
√ Lead time was reduced by 50%, 100 units were delivered in 30 days.
√ Production cost was 70%~80% less than traditional tooling solution.
√ All the production, after-treatment and pre-assembly were done by only one suppli er -RPWORLD, which greatly reduced project risks.
√ Close communication and professional coordination ability ensured the high quality and on-time product launching.
√ Long-term product development partnership with RPWORLD established.