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Prototype Tooling

Off-Shore Production—Domestic Project Management

When you're ready to bring you project to production, Solid Concepts has the experience and knowledge base to create your hard metal tools quickly and accurately. Working with our partner company in Shenzhen, China - Solid Concepts brings you the best of both worlds by providing overseas pricing and lead times along with Solid Concepts' quality and domestic project management.

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Our Tooling will be specifically built to meet all of your requirements to assure your products success, whether your application be low volume, prototype tooling or high volume production tooling. With over 100 years combined experience in all phases of tooling, our Tooling and Molding team has the expertise to analyze your production requirements and determine what type of tool is appropriate for your production run and resulting parts. Solid Concepts' tools are guaranteed to hold up to the volume of your production while not being over engineered. We also offer a number of services to ensure quality including mold flow analysis, Cpk studies and full PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) services.

With Solid Concepts' full spectrum of technologies, you can review your part design for manufacturability before you produce your first prototype. By working with expert tooling engineers from the start you prevent having to redesign your product once you reach the manufacturing stage. Whether you look to Solid Concepts for both your precision tooling and molding needs or simply for hard metal tools, you'll find that you are able to get to market faster than ever before.

Exceptional Lead Times

exceptional lead times

Exceptional lead times are achieved as Solid Concepts' Tooling & Production Molding team leads the industry in fast-turn tooling production parts. You won't experience the time-zone issues associated with overseas production. You'll be in touch with a U.S. based team driving your project to completion as the sun crosses the Pacific – creating an extended two-continent business day. Bridge tooling is also available to get your project started immediately.

Proven Quality

proven quality

Proven quality from Solid Concepts gives you peace-of-mind for the production of your parts. We guarantee the life of your tool—and will make repairs or tool replacement at our expense if tool minimums are not met. Full dimensional inspection reports are provided before production begins. We offer mold flow analysis, Cpk studies and full PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) services. Our China facility is ISO 9001 certified and has a full metrology lab. Custom gauge building is available.

U.S. Based Project Management

usa-based project management

U.S. based project management from Solid Concepts provides you with the depth of experience you need to assure your projects are well taken care of. You'll be provided with regular project updates and a mold-build schedule. On-site meetings are also available when necessary. U.S. based parts warehousing gives you just-in-time access to your critical parts.

Off-shore Pricing

off-shore pricing

Off-shore pricing allows you to competitively price your products with the best manufacturing value available world-wide – while bringing you the best of both worlds when combined with Solid Concepts' U.S. based project management team.

Low to High Volume

low to high volume

Solid Concepts will take on your production parts project. Whether your needs are a few hundred parts produced quickly or millions of parts over many years, we'll have the right solution for you. Our team has the expertise to analyze your production requirements and determine what type of tool is appropriate for your production run and resulting parts. We'll make sure your tools will hold up to the volume you need while not being over-engineered.

Full-Service Manufacturing Solutions

full-service manufacturing solutions

Full-service manufacturing solutions come from a modern facility with over 30,000 square feet of mold building and manufacturing space. A fully equipped tool room with state-of-the-art mold making facilities, high-speed CNC machines, EDM machines, press sizes to 800 tons, and capabilities to produce 400+ molds per year give you the capacity you need. The operation runs 24/7 with 200+ full time employees and has built over 8,000 injection molds since its' founding. Ramp-up capabilities are a reality as our facility is located in the largest mold-making region in the world. The facility is available for pre-arranged tours and auditing.

From Prototype to Production

prototype to production

You've experienced the quality and care that Solid Concepts‘ professionals put into your project from its beginning. We also have the capability to create quality tooling and bring your product through the manufacturing process quickly. By combining Solid Concepts' Rapid Prototyping services with our Tooling & Injection Molding services, you'll be able to get your product to market faster than ever.

Production
As Fast As
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"We frequently work under tight deadlines to satisfy customer needs and supply the best multimodal biometric identity management products in the industry. During a recent new product launch, Solid Concepts assisted our engineering team throughout the design process under an aggressive schedule and strict deadlines. The program required 14 different mold tools and for production parts to be in our facility in less than two months. Solid Concepts was an integral part of our team and helped us be successful in meeting our objectives. We could not have asked for better support and response from a supplier."
—Senior Mechanical Engineer
Government Enterprise

Tooling Capabilities

  • Injection molding of thermoplastics
  • Insert overmolding
  • Compression molding of thermosets
  • Gas assist molding
  • Die casting of metals
  • Thermoforming
  • Plastic extrusions
  • Aluminum extrusions
  • Sheet metal
  • Assembly & packaging

Tooling Industries

  • Aerospace
  • Appliances
  • Automotive
  • Business Products
  • Consumer Products
  • Design Firms
  • Industrial Equipment
  • Medical Devices
  • Medical Equipment
  • Sporting Equipment
  • Toys
  • SolidView
    SolidView® software allows you to view, rotate, measure and communicate design intent with non-CAD users—starting with our free 3D CAD viewer—SolidView/Lite.
  • Prototypes
    PolyJet™ & SLA® provide accurate concept models and master patterns in record time. Complete in-house finishing capability for production-like prototypes.
  • SLS & DMLS
    SLS® produces rugged Nylon 11 and Nylon 12 prototype and production parts. DMLS utilizes metal and alloy materials to create strong metal parts without tooling.
  • FDM
    FDM (fused deposition modeling) produces both prototype and production parts from ABS plastic, polycarbonate, and Ultem materials.
  • CNC
    CNC prototypes, parts and master patterns are ideal in applications where the material property or size requirements make other prototyping techniques unsuitable.
  • Cast Urethane
    Cast Urethane (a proprietary advanced casting technology and advanced formula polymers) produce strong pre-production and short-run production components.
  • Composites
    Composites (fiber reinforced plastic) technology produces large, rigid, accurate panels with excellent strength-to-weight ratio and surface finish.
  • Tooling
    Tooling from Solid Concepts provides quick-turn tooling options for Chinese tooling & production, export tooling from China, and domestic tooling, all with domestic project management.
  • Molding
    Molding from Solid Concepts brings you the best of both worlds by providing Chinese pricing and lead times along with Solid Concepts quality and domestic project management.