Services

Part Design Support

Enplas has the expertise to aid in the design, evaluation, or modification of your plastic components. Whether you require help from the ground up or just need assistance to complete your design, Enplas can help. Our design engineers are at your disposal to help you make your plastic ideas become reality.

Our team of design engineers have over 300 years collective experience in injection molding parts design and production. We utilize the latest CAD/CAE software for design and evaluation and can conduct linear and non-linear stress analysis as well as mold flow analysis. We can accept all industry standard format such as, .stp, .igs, .x_t, .catpart, .prt, and .sldprt. In addition, because we are a manufacturing facility we can evaluate your part design for manufacturability.

Enplas will give you the ideas for the maximum benefit for your application, increasing quality and efficiency, and lowering your total cost.

Material Selection

Enplas works very closely with customers and material suppliers to select materials that meet customer needs for specialized applications. We work with world-class suppliers such as DuPont, Ticona, and others in selecting/developing materials that have proven to reduce wear and noise for gear applications. These relationships allow Enplas to provide not just molding services, but also true engineering services that add value.

Developing Industry Standards

Most of the materials that Enplas helped develop have now become industry standards and are still being used after 20 years.

Engineering Plastics

Enplas has the capability of mass producing injection molded parts with a wide variety of engineering plastics. Some of the plastics where Enplas has achieved world-class quality are:

• ABS, Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
• POM, Acetal (both Copolymer and Homopolymer)
• PPS, Polyphenylene Sulfide
• Nylon
• PC, Polycarbonate
• PEEK, Polyetheretherketone
• PEI, Polyether Imide
• PMMA, Polymethyl Methacrylate

Enplas has experience molding using various grades of these materials, both filled and un-filled.

Prototyping

Enplas has long recognized the need to provide rapid prototyping to accelerate the design and evaluation process. Since 1986 Enplas has had a subsidiary solely dedicated to rapid prototyping. This subsidiary, Quick Mold Service (QMS), was a direct spin-off from our own tooling department, thus ensuring the same quality that Enplas delivers.

QMS has the ability to deliver molded prototype parts in as little as 1 week, depending upon design specifications and volume requirements, with 95% of all parts taking no more than 4 weeks to deliver. The QMS method ensures simultaneous evaluation for fit, form, function, and assembly. These benefits are not possible with conventional machining and prototyping methods.

This ability to evaluate on several levels will save money and cut development time by up to 50%. We can mold all engineering plastics used for mass production. QMS will provide dimensional data for each part prototyped. QMS can also offer the flexibility to accept material changes and design modifications. QMS offers prototype parts in quantities up to 2000 pieces; larger sample volumes can be negotiated. Parts are manufactured to your specifications, using your drawings. Drawings can also be transmitted electronically.

QMS has served many industries including medical equipment, electronics, optical devices, office automation, communications equipment, automotive products and many others. QMS manufactured an average of 200 prototype tools per month with the capacity to handle even more.

If your challenge is high-quality, precision parts in a hurry then QMS should be your first and only choice.

Tooling

Our molds are built at our facilities both here and abroad. Our tool making philosophy is that we build tools only for Enplas subsidiaries. The guaranteed life of our molds range from 300,000 shots to 2,000,000 shots, depending on part specifications and material. We construct our molds from only the highest grade tool steels. Examples of normal materials used would be D2 (Quench and Temper Steel) and P21 group (Pre-Hardened Steel) sourced form suppliers such as Uddeholm and Daido Steel.

Enplas and our customers agree that to make the best parts you must use the best materials and employ the latest technologies. We want to be your “First, Only” choice for precision and quality.

Enplas can build a tool anywhere between one week (for a Prototype) and 16 weeks. Enplas tools are built with customer focus in mind and are built to the ISO 9001 Quality Standard. Gear tools can meet AGMA 10+ standards, and are capable of maintaining a Ppk (Process Performance Index) of 3.0 and a Cpk (Process Capability Index) of 1.5 throughout the tool life. All tools undergo a rigorous inspection and qualification process before being released to production. A focus on critical-to-function and critical-to-assembly dimensions is kept throughout the entire tool design and development phase.

Enplas makes extensive use of the latest computer technology during the development of our tools. Our design engineers use the latest CAD software.

Enplas has machines that are capable of producing nano-meter precision surfaces on our inserts. Most of the molds operate in the range of ±0.05mm (±.002 in.) precision, with some precision levels of ±0.01mm (±.0004 in.).