Plastics Engineering, Engineering Plastics for Prototypes

Plastics Engineering, Engineering Plastics for Prototypes to Production

Two ProtoCAM engineers, Ed Graham and Ryan Schmidt, are graduates of the Plastics Engineering program at Penn State - Behrend. The Plastics Engineering Technology (PLET) program is one of the few such specialty programs in the country. These plastic engineering experts bring the skills they learned at Penn State, combined with multiple years of experience in engineering plastic prototypes for customer product development. This expertise and experience allows ProtoCAM to provide customers with some of the top plastic engineering talent in the US.

Plastics Engineering in Product Development

When ProtoCAM's plastics engineers are working on customer prototype development projects, they bring a unique perspective based on their background. These are some of the things that they consider in developing a prototype for a plastic component:

• Design for Assembly (DFA)
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Tooling considerations - is the design suitable for tooling?
• Mold-ability - can the prototype be made using injection molding for large scale production?
• Draft - the angle of the part to allow release from the mold
• Wall thickness

Further, ProtoCAM's plastics engineers bring their plastics engineering perspective to a product design problem, along with the industrial design and mechanical engineering viewpoints that customers typically have.

Plastics Engineering - Benefits to ProtoCAM's customers

These engineering and design considerations for plastic components and plastic part enable ProtoCAM's customers to:

• Reduce product development cost
• Reduce product development cycles for quicker time-to-market
• Lower later production costs

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