Case Study: Plastic Components, Inc. achieves faster, more accurate injection molding and reduced back-end costs with SOLIDWORKS

Plastic Components Improves Speed and Accuracy of Injection Molding While Reducing Back-end Costs

Plastic Components, Inc., a world-class manufacturer shipping over 20 million injection‑molded parts per month, faced pressure to reduce internal costs and cut the number of costly mold iterations required to meet customer time‑to‑market demands. To tackle this, the company standardized on SolidWorks 3D design tools and implemented SolidWorks' SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium simulation software to improve mold‑filling analysis and catch problems earlier in the development cycle.

Using SolidWorks' SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium, Plastic Components has minimized “round trips” by detecting faulty gating, knit lines, gas traps, fill and cooling issues in simulation before tooling, avoiding multiple 2–3 week mold trials that each cost thousands of dollars. The solution improved accuracy, accelerated customer time to market, reduced back‑end launch costs, freed engineering capacity for new business and R&D, and even helped win new contracts by validating and optimizing designs up front.

Plastic Components, Inc.