Quality parts start with our premium
in-house tooling department.

prototypes, hybrid and production tooling

Our CUTTING-EDGE TOOL Room is industry leading

PTI has built its reputation and success on the ability to get their customers’ products to market quickly and efficiently – without compromising mold design, part design, or quality.

On our Tool Room floor you’ll find a fully integrated tooling network comprised of mold designers and CNC programmers utilizing state-of-the-art software for our high-speed CNC vertical machining centers complimented by our plunge and wire EDM Machines.

Tool Makers

Complex tooling and molds are where we specialize

Materials

At PTI, we use an array of materials from aluminum, mild steel, hardened steels, stainless and copper beryllium to create prototypes, low volume, hybrid and production tooling

Mold Bases

SPI CLASSIFICATIONS
101, 102, 103, and 104.

Runner Systems

Cold runner.
Hot drop and hot manifold systems with valve gate options.

Keys to Success

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Mold Design

Our competent designers know what questions to ask by providing design recommendations, viable alternatives and practical assistance to assure that the customer’s requested part design or model meets their specifications. Part design is never sacrificed to fit a simple one-size-fits-all mold build concept. Each customer has their own list of unique requirements, and it is the goal of PTI to continually meet or exceed those requirements in molding design.

Bad Designs Can Cost You!

The advantage of good designers will save you thousands of dollars by eliminating quality issues and long cycle times. Often plastic parts are not designed with a manufacturing mindset. With 30+years design experiences our skilled designers recognize what it takes to deliver a design capable of producing a quality part.

Tool Transfer program

Tool Makers

Let Us Manage Your Tool Transfer

When your current manufacturer is unable to continue production or supply final molded parts, transferring a tool or mold can rescue a company from losing precious production time and quality.

During the process of transferring your tool to our molding facility, we’ll conduct a thorough evaluation of the tool to establish a proactive maintenance program, all while maintaining smooth production operations. Our in-house tooling team will promptly address any necessary repairs and swiftly return the mold back into production to minimize downtime. Additionally, regular preventative maintenance will be carried out more efficiently throughout the production process.

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Validation Required?

PTI will perform heightened inspection on initial product lots to reduce risk and fill pipeline after successful tool transfer. Heightened inspection will continue for each lot produced to mitigate risk until completion of IQ/OQ/PQ. Inspection of first shot, last shot, and in-process samples will be conducted, with First Article Report – 3 or 5 pcs per lot (optional)

PTI has a highly experienced validation team that will review historical validation records (if applicable) to ensure all original requirements are covered, expedite protocols, inspection and validation reporting and leverage our in-house metrology lab, where our validation engineers complete over 100 tool validations per year to ensure your path to success.

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IQ OQ PQ Validation

Process Validation

In many cases, our medical device customers look to process validation to ensure quality parts. After all, patients lives depend on PTI to deliver high quality parts each and every time.

Process Validation as defined by the FDA is “The collection and evaluation of data, from the process design stage throughout production, which establishes scientific evidence that a process is capable of consistently delivering quality products.”

Process validation is the best way to ensure the production of safe parts, to reduce rejection rates, to prevent part failures in the field and to ensure the part meets with application, specification and regulatory obligations.

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Design For Manufacturing Guide

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Mold Design

Mold Design is a crucial step in the injection molding process. Once you’ve finalized your part in CAD software for fit and function, it must then be transformed into a design for molding to ensure the capture of all the specified details. In some cases, certain features of the part design may not be manufacturable via the injection molding process.

At PTI, we collaborate with you to achieve the best possible design for manufacturability. In fact, we have a FREE guide to help you with this.

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