ENGINEERING DESIGN

In order to help customers solve problems related to metal forming manufacturing, JCL provides comprehensive design services before starting tool development. Detailed design thinking and risk assessment can help reduce unnecessary and unreasonable investment. Keep the actual investment close to the budget, so as to maintain efficiency and avoid overspending and delays that often occur during the project.

CAD Evaluation

Feasibility check is always important when we run our project from product design phase to manufacturing design. Our engineers will review below items to guarantee the part meets the forming requirement and feedback to our customer the necessary design change. Some of the items need to be consider such as

Basics

Materials Types, Weight & Thickness

Machine Tonnage

Tool Size

Part Dimension & Tolerances

Features

Surface Condition

Edge Condition

Web Condition

Spacing Between Features

Extrusions & Countersink

Embossing Style

Geometry

Tab & Notch Width

Blank Corner Radius

Hole Size

Flange Size

Forming Position & Depth

Prototyping

To assure design is ready for tooling kickoff, we will propose a rapid prototyping validation. We can make the prototype parts in a couple of days by a series of processes, several functional testing also will be conducted for preliminary performance evaluation.

Prototype Fabrications

Laser Cutting

CNC Bending

EDM Wire Cutting

CNC Machining

3D Printing

In some cases, a single station short run proto-tooling is required to understand the design improvement or a small volume run for production readiness. Short run tool is a good way to examine before mass production because of the below advantages.