Engineering Department
Custom Tool and Die's engineering department works in close collaboration with
the customer, our sales department, as well as with manufacturing to produce
tools that meet or exceed our customers needs. From reverse engineering
via. our CMM department to "lending a hand" when needed in the manufacturing
department. Our project engineers started there careers apprenticing under die
makers to become tool makers themselves. We feel this is an important
concept because they understand our products not as theories but as fact.
Our designs are developed using
Solid Edge ST and are created in complete solids. Working with a total solid
design from conception to delivery of the final tool allows us to manufacture
products that have solid performance, which for our customer means return on
investment. Upon completion of the die the customer is provided electronic
design data and if requested a complete set of plots. The electronic archive
that our customers receives contains both 3D and 2D data. The 3D data is
exported to whatever format is most easily transferred to your native design
software - the most common types are .x_t as well as .xpk. The 2D data is
exported to AutoCAD as well as Adobe pdf files. Our designs are either burnt
onto a CD-ROM or transferred over the internet via email or ftp.