An existing customer of CPA approached us to help with a problem with some old compression moulding tooling they purchased from the Plessey company
As these tools were going on for 60 years old. They were producing poor quality parts replacing all the tool was a huge undertaking & would have come with a large tooling cost.
CPA came up with a solution of having 1 main bolster tool with all the standard work I.E cooling ejector cavity & core plates with facilities built in to fit a set of core & cavity inserts with a standard fit.
This meant that once the bolster was produced sets of blanks could be manufactured with the component detail machined in as and when the customer wanted to replace them.
This reduced the overall tooling cost by up to 50%, also this meant that any new suitable components could be utilised in this set up.
