LMC worked extensively with the team to recommend materials, establish the best DFM (design for manufacturability) and design a high strength set of parts incorporating both metal and plastic reducing the cost of the components.

Butterfly Valve

LMC  recommended a plastic material that would replace a more costly and more importantly a heavier metal material for the trucking industry.  Using the extensive Engineering experience and tools available LMC was able to supply the tooling to fit a complex part design with critical dimensions.

LMC is working on other complex conversions of metal to plastic applications

D-con Mouse Trap – LMC worked to redesign a bulky mouse trap housing :

Reducing the wall thickness which in short order recovered the cost of the new tooling

Improved the latch mechanism that was previously not reliable

Recommended a 3-D engraving of the company logo that greatly enhanced the aesthetics –The customer sales group was very pleased with the improvement and felt it would help boost sales

LMC received several aged tools (stack molds) for high volume closures and refurbished the tooling and continues to supply parts today

LMC worked extensively with the customer engineering group on part design DFM

Material wall thickness
Combination of metal and plastic considerations using LMC metal and plastic experience

LMC designed ang build automatically performed mistake-proofing (Poka Yoke) to assure the assembly was defect free.

Multiple station equipment validating:

Flatness relative to the critical rivet height datum
Assuring all thin areas are completely filled

LMC reviewed the issues with the previous supplier’s parts and:

Made numerous DFM recommendations

Recommended a more suitable and more stable material

Designed and supplied new tooling much more robust to eliminate the great number of issues with the previous tools

LMC received transferred in tooling for 130 parts to allow the customer to utilize their resources for their core competency.

LMC set-up and sampled each tool in an 11 week period keeping the customer lines supplied with parts during the transition

LMC recommended critical characteristics for each part to be used by both companies in checking the quality of the parts

LMC performs all of the tool maintenance on the tools “in-house” – many of the tools are very old and were built in Asia at a low cost. LMC has improved the condition on the molds.

LMC has supplied more robust tooling from Asia for new and or replacement parts under our management from both here in the US and on site in Asia.