Injection molded plastic finishes get specified late in most programs and paid for early. The gloss level on a cosmetic housing, the grain on a hand held enclosure, the logo on a control panel all trace back to decisions that touch tooling cost, cycle time and part price. Some of those decisions live in the […]

Most design-for-manufacturability (DFM) findings aren’t exotic. Across a few hundred part reviews, the same handful of issues account for the majority of flagged geometry: walls that vary too much across the part, vertical faces with no draft on them and stiffening features sized without regard to what they’ll do to the opposite surface. None of […]

Sustainability language shows up in RFQs now in a way it didn’t ten years ago. OEMs want to know what percentage of a housing can be reclaimed, whether a bracket can go back into the same product line and what happens to the part after the customer is finished with it. The short answer is […]