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How Lean Manufacturing Produces Quality Medical Parts

October 30, 2020

Your Medical Device Assembly Needs a Reliable Process that Reduces Cycle Times and Produces Quality Parts Do you believe that quality and productivity work inversely ...

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How to Add Ribs to Prevent Risks for Your Part Design

August 23, 2020

You’ve designed your part, gone through the hurdles of getting your injection mold manufactured, and finally have parts in hand—only to find weak parts covered ...

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How to Optimize Your Plastic Wall Thickness

July 31, 2020

When I recently asked one of our plastic engineers to name a time he encountered plastic wall thickness issues, he simply responded, “Name a project!” Every plastic injection molded ...

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The Four Stages of Lean Product Development

May 19, 2020

“This plastic needle looked a lot sharper in CAD!” The engineer looked at the medical component and knew the plastic part was supposed to be ...

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Selecting the Right Plastic Molding Ejection System

February 26, 2020

Why Your Ejection System is Critical to Part Success The last thing an operations manager wants to hear is that their manufacturing line went down ...

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The Plastic Engineer’s Undercut

November 27, 2019

By Shamilah Faria, Applications Engineer What keeps a plastic engineer up at night? Sometimes they want to solve problems but cannot find that perfect solution ...