Prototype and Production Tooling

All the advantages of off-shore production coupled with 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.

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.

Some of the industries Solid Concepts serves with its Tooling services include:

• 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.
• SLA & PolyJet
  SLA® & PolyJet™ provide accurate concept models and master patterns in record time. Complete in-house finishing capability for production-like prototypes.
• SLS
  SLS® (selective laser sintering) produces rugged Nylon 11 and Nylon 12 prototype and production parts and is ideally suited for Direct Digital Manufacturing.
• 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. Chose between CompositeCast™, Hand Lay-up FRP and VARTM.
• 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
  Injection 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.