Moulding | Design & Development | Tool Making
Our manufacturing plant is designed to meet the exacting standards of the medical and electronics industries and uses a high degree of automation to ensure world class productivity. Daily shift performance monitoring systems are in operation and company Key Performance Indicators are published within the plant. These ensure all staff focus on and are aware of our targets and of our Continuous Improvement goals.
Our 19 machines range in size from 15 to 400 tonnes and, with over 40 years experience in technical moulding, we have expertise in the processing of most thermoplastic materials.
We offer our expertise in design for manufacture to ensure the most robust design solution for your project. Our engineers' involvement in the design process at the earliest possible stage provides a vital platform for a successfully designed component; a product that meets all your requirements and is manufactured reliably at the lowest cost and highest quality.
Mouldflow analysis is carried out on all components to optimise feed locations and fill patterns. Our sophisticated Tool Project Management System enables us to handle complex proposals for new tools from the CAD stage through to production sign-off. This system provides complete reporting from the point at which an order is placed and covers the design review process, tool specification, GA approvals stage, sampling and modification stages and continues to full part approval.
During the tool build we report progress either weekly or fortnightly via Timing Plans. After the tool has gone into production all Tool Reports relating to work on the tool during its lifetime are compiled as an archive within the system. Consequently, a record of the complete status and history of a tool from order placement to the end of its production life is available both for you and for OGM. This close monitoring of tools and management of the data enables us to continuously update our knowledge and improve our design, moulding and engineering practices.
Our new purpose built Toolroom, completed in 2004, produces new tools for customers and provides an essential maintenance and repair service for tools already in production. The toolroom also fabricates prototype and development mould tools and jigs, fixtures and gauges for production.
The wealth of experience of our toolmakers adds value to the design consultancy and tooling development functions; they are consulted as part of the process and contribute their views from a toolmaking perspective. The toolroom is equipped with all the principal toolmaking capabilities of spark erosion, CNC machinery, wire erosion and grinding and turning.
In addition to our in-house toolroom, we have very close relationships with subcontract toolmaking companies. When producing new tools in this way, the Design and Tooling department monitor projects thoroughly, with close reference to the Project Management systems that have been developed.
