Design for Manufacture

At Andel we like to build partnerships with our customers enabling you to tap into our expertise at the concept stage.

We find that taking by this collaborative approach at the early stages of a project ensures the best product outcome all round. By understanding the mechanical requirements and working environments of a component, we can optimise our recommendations on materials and tool design.

Being moulders and toolmakers ourselves, our design for manufacture on the component is carried out with the injection mould tool design in mind to achieve a robust tool and quality moulded component.

As part of the DFM service, we have an inhouse mouldflow analysis software system.

This can highlight potential issues with a view of trying to alleviate them, before final design release and more importantly before any steel is cut.

Customers can come to us with an initial idea, as straightforward as a sketch or  with full CAD models. We can usually undertake component model changes in house rather than having to revert to design agencies.

We use the Hexagon Visi CAD software and are able to open most formats of CAD file.

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