MECHANICAL/PLASTIC ENGINEERING

PPM’s engineering focus and capabilities provides customers with a partner who provides a positive impact to achieve customer design requirements that effect the effectiveness and efficiency of the injection molding based production approach.

The PPM team works with customers from the prototype stage, through the preproduction stage, and assists with and implements an efficient and effective production, logistics, and quality management process.

• PPM experienced and degreed mechanical and plastic engineers work with customers’ engineering organizations as follows:
  • Assist in making the customers’ designs suitable for an effective injection molding solution
    • Provide mold concepts and mold structure recommendations
    • Provide plastic resin and other component recommendations
    • Work with customers’ personnel to establish critical part/assembly/product parameters, dimensions, and performance requirements, and ultimately the production, logistics, and QA/QC requirements
  • Function as project manager for the specific customer project, including:
    • Project management on a day-to-day basis
    • Coordinating the activities of PPMs operating departments and required subcontractors through project completion
    • Coordinate status meetings with customers’ organization as requested and required
    • The PPM project team usually consists of a senior molding engineer/moldmaking resource, a senior molding/materials resource, and the project manager(engineer). Input is drawn from QA/QC and logistics as required.