After evaluating the opportunity and verifying the best fit for both parties, we will start designing the solution. This is where we marry the design, material selection, manufacturing process, and decades of experienced team members committed to making your application successful. We will work with your design or create one from scratch to ensure that everything is properly considered. There is a lot that goes into the solution design process, specifically with dynamic plastic parts and components that are integral to your equipment. It is critical that the correct material is chosen for the application along with the right manufacturing process – whether it be spin-casting, injection molding, 3D printing, compression molding or one of our other plastic manufacturing methods – is selected based on several design considerations including part geometry, part size, optimal material selection (durometer or polymer) and order frequency. We then help to optimize the design and part functionality from a manufacturing perspective taking all physical requirements into consideration. Once we have settled on the manufacturing process, additional part design information and critical surfaces will be noted on manufacturing drawings. Depending on the manufacturing process, this may include sprue and gate locations, wall thickness requirements, additional draft angles, number of mold cavities, part surface finish, and ejector pin locations. Each molding process has similar basic principles, but are executed in very different ways.