Consulting

The Simcon business unit Technical Consultancy supports and advises organizations in the plastics injection moulding industry with optimizing the complete product development process, from start to end. From the planning phase, the application development phase, the mould engineering and mould making phase into production. Included in the process optimization are as well all the contributing specialisms which are called for during the development process like simulation, logistics, quality assuranc prototyping, assembly automation, metrology, testing etc.

Benefits PDGS:

• Structured plastic process development sequence and timely communication with clear agreements, tasks and milestones between organizations committed to jointly develop, engineer and produce plastic parts
  
• Product engineers, mould engineers and  moulding process managers are guided through the design process with the benefit of numerous checklists, reminders and pointers to access specialist´s knowledge. Project managers have full status overviews over the multiple projects they manage. On-going and delayed tasks are presented in a managerial way for all to understand quickly.OEM, tier1‘s and all the participating experts  and specialists at the mould-maker, the moulder and at the suppliers and the contractor all have the same info and the same status at any time through PDGS.Management of organizations have an easy to grasp overview of the timing of managerial decision moments and the status of the required technical input for these decision moments
  
• PDGS is a dedicated plastics industry software, it  has been developed by plastics experts, coming from the different plastics development stages, for the plastics industry
  
• Significant reduction in process development time
  
• Reduction in iterative and corrective loops and feedback in all the phases
  
• Stable and repetitive development processes
  
• Clear and documented relationships between participating organizations
  
• Intuitive to use and easy to set-up and manage
  
• Gantt status overviews
  
• Archiving of all documents in one central repository
  
• Integrated e-mail functionality
  
• Multiple projects within the PDGS environment

PDGS principle:

• The development process gets broken down into four main phases (stages), the planning phase, the application development phase, the mould engineering and manufacturing phase and the injection moulding phase
• Subsequently with in each phase the process gets broken down into it’s smallest tasks which gets assigned to the accountable person
  
• Planned early involvement of down stream plastic value chain knowledge into the up-stream process. (aka front loading)
  
• Commit all by visualizing the tasks to all
  
• Clear definition and planning of managerial decision moments, milestones and the status of the inputting tasks
  
• Making extensive technical checklists and technical reminders available for all phases
  
• Overview of dedicated knowledge bases available at the world wide web