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I am a hands on manager of a group of 6 engineers with a wide variety of technical, educational and employment background. I like to handle a couple of “minor” projects from concept through the product life cycle to keep abreast of the current issues and opportunities that my group has to deal with. And by working on “minor” projects, it allows me the opportunity to assist my team when they need help from time to time.
Technimark is a privately held injection molder with 5 plants in North Carolina, 2 in Mexico, 1 in China and 1 in Germany. We are very well diversified with customers in appliances, hand tools, yard tools, store displays, medical packaging, textile, consumer packaging and industrial products and more. We also have our own recycling facility and create recycled resins for ourselves and other molders.
My group of 6 engineers are dedicated to design, engineer and manage projects from initial concept stages through the product life cycle. Many times our clients will involve us with their consumer group discussions so we can assist on “moldable” changes on the fly. Once the concepts are complete, we can provide SLA models and photo realistic renderings to further assist with our clients marketing efforts.
Once a project is approved we then begin detailed design and engineering, working closely with our tooling engineers and our automation engineering group to achieve a deign that meets the customer’s requirements, for a cost the customer is will to accept and in a timeframe to meet our customer’s customers demand.
Product engineering includes CAD design (we generally use Pro/Engineer but are also capable with Solidworks), tolerance stack up, FEA analysis with Ansys, part gating and filling and gas traps with Moldflow analysis. We are also involved with material selection: taking into account how the part functions, in what environment the part will be used, what the cost considerations are and what the sustainable impacts are. We test parts strength and capabilities. We have an environmental chamber, cycle test stand and instrum machine for stress testing.
We then work with a mold tool maker and either build a prototype mold or a pilot tool. The prototype mold is generally faster, made from softer steel and does not have the same water cooling or gating as a production tool. A Pilot tool is a single cavity production tool with the same gating, injection and ejection as the production tool. We take this step because in general many of the molds we have made are multi-cavity tools (8 up to 128) and doing the single cavity up front tool allows us and our customer to make changes prior to the capital investment into a multi-cavity tool.
Once the customer signs off on the single cavity tool then the multi-cavity tool begins its process. We generally work on very compressed time lines, so all the above activities overlap. Thus creating an environment we collaborative communication is essential and getting designs right up front are critical to the success of the organization.
Technimark is a privately held injection molder with 5 plants in North Carolina, 2 in Mexico, 1 in China and 1 in Germany. We are very well diversified with customers in appliances, hand tools, yard tools, store displays, medical packaging, textile, consumer packaging and industrial products and more. We also have our own recycling facility and create recycled resins for ourselves and other molders.
My group of 6 engineers are dedicated to design, engineer and manage projects from initial concept stages through the product life cycle. Many times our clients will involve us with their consumer group discussions so we can assist on “moldable” changes on the fly. Once the concepts are complete, we can provide SLA models and photo realistic renderings to further assist with our clients marketing efforts.
Once a project is approved we then begin detailed design and engineering, working closely with our tooling engineers and our automation engineering group to achieve a deign that meets the customer’s requirements, for a cost the customer is will to accept and in a timeframe to meet our customer’s customers demand.
Product engineering includes CAD design (we generally use Pro/Engineer but are also capable with Solidworks), tolerance stack up, FEA analysis with Ansys, part gating and filling and gas traps with Moldflow analysis. We are also involved with material selection: taking into account how the part functions, in what environment the part will be used, what the cost considerations are and what the sustainable impacts are. We test parts strength and capabilities. We have an environmental chamber, cycle test stand and instrum machine for stress testing.
We then work with a mold tool maker and either build a prototype mold or a pilot tool. The prototype mold is generally faster, made from softer steel and does not have the same water cooling or gating as a production tool. A Pilot tool is a single cavity production tool with the same gating, injection and ejection as the production tool. We take this step because in general many of the molds we have made are multi-cavity tools (8 up to 128) and doing the single cavity up front tool allows us and our customer to make changes prior to the capital investment into a multi-cavity tool.
Once the customer signs off on the single cavity tool then the multi-cavity tool begins its process. We generally work on very compressed time lines, so all the above activities overlap. Thus creating an environment we collaborative communication is essential and getting designs right up front are critical to the success of the organization.
