For all new tools, revisions, and modifications, our experienced and dedicated engineering department will work with you through the design phase and into production. The first part of our process begins with an initial design review. During this review, critical specifications, ranges or dimensions that are essential for your specific application are identified. These parameters will be used to monitor, verify and document process control to ensure quality and precision for the lifetime of your product. After the design phase, our certified mold makers and tool room team utilize our high quality machining equipment, computer aided technologies, and advanced mold building capabilities to guarantee that we meet your product specifications and performance needs and provide you with technology you trust.

PCI’s certified mold makers and tool room teammates are qualified to handle and maintain even the most delicate of tools. Mold release sprays are banned from our facility because we are passionate about taking care of your long-term investments. After every production run, molds are cleaned thoroughly and examined to ensure tool quality and a long tool life. In-house mold storage racks house hundreds of active molds that are in "ready to run" condition at a moments notice.

Our Tool Room Team has extensive experience with

Tool Design:

• Design Reviews and Support; including Manufacturing Cost Analysis
• Tools designed with 3-D CAD/CAM Modeling
• 3-D Tool Designs
• DXF & IGES Interface & Translation
• Mold Designs for Manufacturing (CadKey, MasterCam & Solidworks)
• SLA/SLS Development for Prototypes
• Quality Planning
• Metal to Plastic part design conversions to reduce your project costs

Manufacturing:

• Steel & Aluminum Tooling
• Single Cavity, Multi-Cavity, Family Molds and Mud Bases with interchangeable cavities
• Hot Runner Molds and Molds with Complicated Slides, Shut-offs, Ejector pins, Water lines, Venting and Gating
• Fixture building for Production & Value-Added Services
• End-of-Arm-Tool (EOAT) Design & Building
• Wire EDM Machines
• Lathes
• Grinders
• Standard & CNC Milling
• Modern CNC EDMs with 3D Tool Changers & C-Axis
• Glass Beading Machines
• Mold Stacking Systems
• Arc Welders
• DME Ultrasonic Polishing
• Blue Wave Ultrasonic Mold Cleaners

Tooling Transfer Program

PCI has extensive experience and expertise to handle your tooling transfer needs.  In our first few years of operation, much of our production was run using "take-over molds". As a result, we began to develop a sound reputation for tool/product re-design, productivity, and quality - all of which resulted in significant increases in on-time deliveries and cost controls for our customers.  We added our own injection molding tooling capabilities in 1982, enhancing our no-risk, comprehensive Tooling Transfer Program to ensure the safe, smooth and documented transition of your most critical molds.

Let's be honest. Supplier relationships don't always last and some can end up being more of a burden than a trusted resource. For these reasons, we strive to continuously improve our tooling transfer capabilities so that we can assist you during the earliest phases of R&D, when tolerances, design, quality, engineering expertise and functionality are most critical.

In the first stage of our Tooling Transfer Program, experienced tool room teammates thoroughly assess each tool, cavity, slide, auxiliary supply, and other components that are received.  Our teammates provide detailed documentation of the mold condition and any required repairs.  We then suggest and quote any tool modifications or revisions necessary to get the molds back into a production ready status.  Once PCI receives a customer’s approval and purchase order to move forward, we perform the work quoted and thoroughly document the process with a completed checklist for takeover tooling.  After modification or revision, the molds go to the production floor for qualification and the customer is provided with sample parts for approval.  Customer satisfaction is our number one priority and production purchase orders do not get run unless the customer signs off and officially approves sample parts for our quality assurance team to use for in-process inspections.

To this day, our tooling transfer  program remains one of our strongest core competencies, with roughly 40 percent of the molds in-house sent to us by customers that were unhappy with their supplier(s).