STRATEGY

Extreme Tool & Engineering continues to focus on Plastic Product Development requiring the fastest possible lead-times. Our typical delivery cycle for early-production molds averages four-six weeks, compared with an industry average for standard production tools in the 10-12 week range.

The tools we build to meet our customers' initial part needs are capable of running significant production quantities, often in excess of 100,000 shots. In the case of lower volume products, the entire life cycle of a product can be molded in these tools.

By utilizing early-production tooling instead of traditional prototype tooling, you can build your final production tools with greater care, and after early engineering changes have been implemented. This gives you the opportunity to optimize your high volume production tooling for the lowest part cost.

In cases where your product will need high production quantities, Extreme Tool & Engineering can also offer fully hardened (class 101) production tools with an average 8 week delivery.

Since our primary market niche revolves around the speed at which we deliver our product, we will be working very hard to condense many phases of the manufacturing process. One of our most effective ways of saving time is to complete much of the up-front design and engineering work required for building a mold prior our receipt of an order. We welcome the opportunity to assist our customers in the design process (ESI), in an effort to improve the opportunity for success throughout the life of the program.

We've recently added additional services on the front and back end of our portfolio, in order to provide our customers with a more thorough, one stop solution. On the front end, we've become more and more involved with our customers in the product design/design for manufacturing phase of the program. We've also added CAE capabilities internally through mold flow/part advisor, and have developed strong external partners for more advanced CAE work including stress and warp analysis, finite element analysis, structural analysis, etc. Utilizing these tools effectively helps avoid surprises later on.

On the post mold completion side of our business, we now add numerous additional services. Our goal initially was to complete a mechanical sample only on our client's molds, at our facility, before mold shipped. We still do this, but also seek to fulfill additional requirements as well. Our Q/A Lab is full of modern inspection equipment included fully automated CMM and Vision equipment, and is staffed by skilled ASQC certified staff. Quality Packages are developed specific to a customers needs, but may include anything from a Single Piece First Article Layout Inspection to a Complete PPAP including all required Process Diagrams, FMEA's, etc. and anything in between. We also design, develop, manufacture, and program Inspection Fixtures supplied with mold. Additional Molding Services offered include Automation End of Arm Tooling Development (EOA) and Secondary Operations Tooling Development (sonic welding, etc.). Our goal is to provide a total solution, no excuses, just results. Tell us what you need done, and we will make it happen.