Low Risk Tooling

Every commercial decision has a degree of risk attached, never more so than with the introduction of a new product. Risk increases with the amount of investment necessary and the time taken to bring that investment to a fruitful conclusion. Precision Micro employs manufacturing technologies that help minimise set-up investment and reduce 'time to market'… enabling technologies for a 'low risk strategy'

Low cost, low risk tooling approach

All our manufacturing technologies depend on either digital or modular tooling. Photo Etching, Electroforming, LEEF, LEEP and Wire EDM processes all utilise digital tooling… tooling that offers the design engineer a range of economic benefits:

• Low initial cost compared to hard tooling
  
• The ability to prototype quickly cost effectively and utilise the same manufacturing technology for volume requirements
  
• Increased complexity not reflected in cost
  
• The ability to modify and optimise tooling without significant cost penalty

  
  

  A further significant benefit associated with digital tooling is that it is virtually instant whereas press tooling can take months to design and manufacture. In most instances, Precision Micro can manufacture a component in the time it takes to design a press tool!

  
  

  For those requiring 3-D components, Precision Micro adopts a modular tooling approach for manual and semiautomated forming. By breaking a forming process down into individual operations and producing an individual, low cost tool to suit each one, the Company provides a low risk option for the production of even complex formed components.

  
  
  • Low volume complex formed parts can be economical
    
  • No high investment in complex, progressive press tooling
    
  • Over 3000 existing modular tools stored and catalogued for easy access
    
  • Fully equipped and experienced tool room for producing new modular tools
    
    

    Anyone wishing to adopt a low risk strategy to new product development should seriously consider Precision Micro's production processes and design accordingly.

    
    

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