Our Innovation Process
Our Collaborative Innovation Process, Under One Roof
Our collaborative innovation process fuels innovation and shortens development times. By engaging with R&D engineers early in the development process, we’re able to create better components and significantly enhance the value of our customers’ products. Explore our immersive design-prototype-build-test process that can be uniquely executed under one roof in our new innovation center to get your differentiated product to market faster than ever.
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Designed for Manufacturability
With clients in high-regulation fields such as medical device manufacturing, we are accustomed to delivering critical-to-function components in accelerated timelines. We bring materials scientists, process engineers and tooling engineers together from day one — equipped with the right knowledge to ensure components are designed for scale-ready production from the beginning.
Custom Materials Formulations
Better performing devices are built with thoughtful designs and the right materials. We often see standard material formulations performing below expectations — and over-engineered designs attempting to compensate (and often failing). We provide extensive expertise in custom rubber formulations to meet demanding specifications.
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Production-intent Prototypes
Our ability to produce production-intent prototypes from any material in our ever-expanding library of custom rubber, silicone, and thermoplastics saves even more time, allowing our customers to test fully functional prototypes of critical-to-function components early in the innovation process. Product development cycles that once took months can now be accomplished in days.
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Comprehensive Testing
Product and material development testing covers a comprehensive range of services including contact-free laser and vision inspection, advanced failure analysis technology and simulated real-world testing to ensure full field confidence.
Additional Materials Testing Capabilities Include:
- Physical Property Testing
- Mechanical Property Testing
- Original and Aged Material Property Testing
- Rheological Testing
- Microscopy
- Chemical and Thermal Analysis
- Environmental Analysis
- General Pressurized Water Mechanical Testing
- Flow Control Testing
- Low Pressure/ Vacuum Testing
- Frictional/Torque Testing
- Heat Transfer Testing
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Manufacturing & Deployment
Whether you are manufacturing a component or a complex assembly, we provide in-house rubber, LSR, HCR, thermoplastic molding, insert molding and over-molding of dissimilar materials — all designed for production at scale.
We specialize in the assembly of close tolerance components and our assembly services include in-process and final testing, as well as 100% automated vision inspection for many medical applications in our ISO Class 7 and 8 clean rooms.
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