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Design Service

Being right first time, begins here

Continual investment in design technology ensures we are using the very latest in IT and CAD systems.

Our very comprehensive Design Department has been developed over the years and this now comprises 5 seats of CATIA, with other systems including Delcam Powershape and Auto Cad as support. All tools are fully designed, detailed and surfaced in-house by our highly skilled and trained designers who also have shopfloor and injection moulding experience.

This brings a high degree of manufacturing practicality to design and gives us the ability to assist customers at a very early stage with their concepts, helping to identify potential problems, improve moulding conditions, and in some cases simplifying tooling to keep costs to a minimum.

We can offer this service independent of tool manufacture should you require.

EDM

Tooling manufacture is analysed at an early stage with wire erosion and electrode planning completed. This allows design of graphite/copper electrodes and wire profiles to be developed in unison with tooling design and ensures data is readily available for machining to assist a smooth flow of tooling through the manufacturing process.

CAD/CAM

CAD
Operating System Hardware Software No.of Seats
Windows XP Professional PC CATIA V5 R16 1
AIX 4.3 (UNIX) IBM RS/6000 CATIA V4 Rel 4.2.4 4
Windows XP Professional PC ACAD Mechanical Desktop V5 1

CAM
Operating System Hardware Software No.of Seats
Windows XP Professional PC - Dual Processor Delcam Powermill V7 Delcam Powershape V7 4

Inspection
Operating System Hardware Software No.of Seats
Kemco 600 Co-ordinate
Measuring Machine
PC Delcam Power Inspect V4 1

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