Case Study: Ambix Consulting achieves 95% first-shot success and halves mold development time with SOLIDWORKS Plastics Professional

Advanced precision injection-mold development with SOLIDWORKS® Plastics Professional

Ambix Consulting, LLC is a full-service product development firm specializing in precision injection molding and engineered plastics. Facing lengthy, costly prototype-driven tooling cycles, Ambix adopted SolidWorks tools — including SolidWorks Professional CAD and SolidWorks Plastics Professional injection-mold-filling simulation — to identify manufacturability issues up front and shorten mold development time.

By using SolidWorks Plastics Professional inside the SolidWorks environment, Ambix cut mold development time in half, achieved a 95% first-shot mold success rate, and increased annual molded output from a few thousand parts to more than 10 million. The SolidWorks solution produced simulation results that closely matched production (validated with photoelastic and microscopic analysis), reducing trial-and-error tooling changes while improving throughput and product quality.

Ambix Consulting

Jeffrey Nicoll

President