Industries We Service
At Protoshop Inc., we specialize in precision-engineered injection molding solutions tailored to various industries. Our expertise spans the medical, electronics, and many other sectors, ensuring we deliver high-quality prototype and production components that meet stringent industry standards. Our focus on rapid prototyping, detailed design analysis, and material selection allows us to provide solutions that enhance functionality and reliability in advanced applications.
Medical Prototype Injection Molding
Protoshop excels in developing prototype injection molded components for the medical industry, leveraging over 15 years of specialized experience. Our comprehensive services cater to a range of medical products, including surgical tools, In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices, drug delivery systems, diagnostic equipment, and surgical tools. We emphasize quality, precision, and flexibility at every stage, from design to production.
Our capabilities include overmolding, insert molding, and expert machining, allowing us to handle complex geometries and multi-material components efficiently. We collaborate closely with customers to create cost-effective injection molded parts, focusing on critical design features and multiple design paths. This collaborative approach ensures that our prototypes meet the highest engineering specifications and regulatory standards.
In addition, our rapid prototyping capabilities enable us to fabricate molds quickly, often within a week, and deliver the first plastic parts within days. This speed and agility in the prototyping process help in avoiding surprises, facilitating quick part revisions, and shortening iterative timelines. Our commitment to quality and precision is evident in our use of durable tooling, thorough first-article inspections, and comprehensive design for molding analysis.
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We offer customized injection molding solutions for electronic housings, essential for safeguarding sensitive components within electronic devices. Our housings protect against environmental factors like dust, moisture, and temperature fluctuations, ensuring the functionality and reliability of electronic devices over time. This protection is crucial in industries such as aerospace, automotive, and medical, where durable and long-lasting electronic equipment is vital.
Plastic housings offer numerous advantages over traditional metal housings, including cost-effectiveness, durability, efficient manufacturing, and versatile design capabilities. The most common materials we use include polycarbonate, ABS, and PVC, each providing specific benefits like impact resistance, chemical resistance, and thermal stability.
We emphasize the importance of comprehensive testing during the design and development of electronic housings. This includes thermal testing, stress analysis, and environmental testing to ensure that the housings perform adequately under various conditions. Injection molded prototype parts are preferred for these tests as they closely replicate the characteristics of mass-produced housings.
Our approach involves Design for Manufacturability (DFM), moldability review, rapid plastic injection molding tools, and rigorous quality assurance procedures. This ensures that our electronic housing prototypes meet industry standards and client specifications, facilitating functional testing, verification, and process validation early in the design phase.
Considering the need for secure component attachment, we utilize insert molding for metal fasteners within housings, providing reliable attachment points for electronic components such as circuit boards and connectors. This method ensures that components remain securely fastened, preventing issues like loose connections and potential damage during operation.
Learn MoreConsumer Goods Injection Molding
We specialize in prototype injection molding explicitly tailored for consumer goods, bridging the gap between concept and mass production. Our expertise enables businesses to test and refine their products with high-quality, production-like molds, ensuring they are market-ready. Our services offer numerous advantages for consumer product development, including design validation with production-replicating materials and processes, user trials to gather feedback on ergonomics, aesthetics, and functionality, packaging compatibility verification, and retail display testing. This thorough validation process helps mitigate risks by identifying and addressing potential manufacturing issues before full-scale production.
We offer a comprehensive approach to prototype injection molding for consumer goods, including DFM review to refine part design for robustness and scalability, single-cavity prototype mold creation optimized for small runs and quick design changes, and material selection guidance to match the intended final product’s look, feel, and performance. Our iterative molding process includes producing prototype parts, refining designs based on feedback, and applying post-molding treatments to simulate production finishes. Our facility is equipped to handle various consumer products, such as home appliances, personal care items, electronics, toys, and storage solutions, using materials like ABS, polypropylene, polycarbonate, HDPE, thermoplastic elastomers, and acrylic. Protoshop Inc. ensures a smooth transition to mass production, providing insights for high-volume production and assisting in selecting production mold makers and partners, thus setting your consumer product up for successful market launch.
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