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Immediate Production Tooling©
From Cellular Mouldings
"Adding Technique to Technology"©
Cellular Mouldings of Kettering Northants, pioneers of manufacturing systems for creating moulded products of a wide size and complexity range using mainly Polyurethane based materials, have taken their processes a step further.
After evaluation of both the Rapid Prototype Tooling currently used for their:
"Tool & A Few" Service
and the
Long-Term Durable Production Tooling
used by Cellular Mouldings for extended manufacture, a new concept has emerged.
Immediate Production Tooling (IPT)T
A system that provides the ideal scenario for elevating a project from CAD data or model to Market Ready Product in a single process step serving the combined requirements for:
- test prototypes
- early to market batches
- on-going indefinite production.
The (IPT)T process can be set up in different ways to suit the product development programme giving the product designer attractive options. The techniques are selected according to the nature of the product and its market requirement. These Techniques have been added to the Technologies which are already in place at Cellular Mouldings. The advantages of proceeding from CAD to (IPT)T include:
A) No need for silicone prototype tooling - If prototypes are required the (IPT)T system generates them in advance of production.
B) No retooling charges since tool life is effectively infinite.
C) Tooling is "refreshed" periodically giving useful design change / niche market breaks.
The "drivers" for this development were:
- Cost Savings
- Time-to-Market
- Sustained Product Quality
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