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PTI Engineered Plastics Tool Transfer Process
There are certainly times when a manufacturer, for whatever reason, is unable to continue production or supply the final molded parts, and a customer is left empty-handed. Fortunately, transferring a tool or mold from one manufacturer to another can rescue a company from losing precious production time and experiencing potential quality issues.
During the process of transferring the tool to a new molding facility, maintaining smooth production operations necessitates a thorough evaluation of the tool and establishing a proactive maintenance program.
Choosing a supplier with in-house tooling capabilities is crucial.
When a mold arrives at a new supplier, their tooling and process engineering teams conduct comprehensive assessments of the mold and review process parameters. An in-house tooling team can promptly address any necessary repairs, swiftly returning the mold to production and minimizing downtime. Additionally, regular preventative maintenance can be carried out more efficiently throughout the production process.
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Tool Transfer Program
Don’t let your tool investments go to waste. Our tool transfer program can give your existing tools new life.
With nearly 40 years of mold building experience, a robust manufacturing process and commitment to quality, PTI Engineered Plastics will guide you through a successful tool transfer program ensuring a rapid return to production.
PTI’s Tool Transfer Team Includes:
Process Engineer
Account Manager
Tooling Engineer
Quality Engineer
After evaluating your current tooling, process information and program goals, we’ll provide a thorough report and timeline, along with your quote in preparation for your tool transfer.
Clear Path to Success
- It is critical that full transparency is shared throughout the transfer process in order to have an efficient and effective tool transfer.
- It is also essential to clearly define the scope, responsibilities, and expectations during the RFQ phase of the tool transfer inquiry.
- Any tool refurbishments will be quoted and submitted for approval.
- The validation process and protocol will be decided and agreed on up front and executed by the Tool Transfer Team.
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
- 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.
- Leverage our in-house metrology lab
- Our validation engineers complete over 100 tool validations per year and will ensure your path to success.
To assist in planning, PTI has prepared a tooling transfer checklist that highlights information that will be helpful in assuring the success of your mold/tool transfer.
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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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