Case Study: Plastic Components, Inc. achieves faster time-to-market and fewer mold iterations with SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

Improving speed and accuracy of injection molding with SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium

Plastic Components, Inc., a high-volume manufacturer shipping over 20 million parts per month, needed to minimize the number of mold iterations to meet customer time-to-market requirements and reduce internal costs. To do this, the company added SolidWorks’ SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium mold-filling simulation software to its existing SOLIDWORKS design environment.

Using SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium, Plastic Components, Inc. pinpointed gating, knitline, gas trap and cooling issues in software instead of in tooling, cutting weeks from the back end of mold and tooling development, minimizing costly “round trips” (each previously taking about 2–3 weeks and costing thousands), and increasing mold-filling accuracy. SolidWorks’ solution also helped the company save money on unnecessary iterations, win new business, and accelerate R&D through more reliable design validation.

Plastic Components, Inc.

Rick Riesterer

Business Development Manager