New APEM system optimizes medical molds and moldingNew APEM system optimizes medical molds and molding
Building high-volume molds for medical devices and components requires a business offering collaborative, interactive development, with the experience to understand how to reduce material costs, cycle time and labor. That's what Sarasota Precision Engineering's Medical Division in Sarasota, FL says it has created through its Advanced Precision Engineered Molds (APEM) System for its customers in the medical industry.
June 29, 2011
Medical Division in Sarasota, FL says it has created through its Advanced Precision Engineered Molds (APEM) System for its customers in the medical industry. With 30 years of experience in designing, engineering and building injection molds, SPE's medical division is able to offer cutting edge manufacturing to its customers.
Mike Ontiveros, vice president and partner at SPE, said that the key to customers' success is having the experience in engineering tooling for high volume molding operations. "The APEM System provides cost savings in material consumption through reduced cycle times, mold design that include proper venting, and tool management to generate a better bottom line," said Ontiveros in an interview.
While the APEM System is made up of fundamental components, it's designed to increase the quantity of parts produced per injection cycle, reduce labor cost during production - often with the use of integrated robotics - and increase tooling precision for better production. By successfully combining these components into one single system, the APEM System gives the medical injection molding industry a new tool, one that fits for the LSR injection molding side of the business as well as thermoplastic molding.
"People often design and build a mold, but leave out some of the production process thinking," said Ontiveros. "When it comes to designing a mold for a part, they don't incorporate flexibility, which results in higher part costs through material usage or other oversights. It's through our years of experience that we've been able to develop our APEM System to help us brand ourselves and market our efforts."
SPE's Medical Division is housed in a 33,000-sf facility and is ISO 13485 certified, meeting ISO 14644 Class 6, 7, and 8 standards. The division operates 16 injection molding machines for both thermoplastic and LSR molding, ranging in size from 28-390 tons.
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