DFM Services (Design For Manufacturability)

Our goal is to become an integral member of your product development team, where you can leverage our decades of experience to streamline the new product development cycle. With our DFM input early on, we can help you avoid dead-end development paths, streamlining the process and reducing time to market.

As an example, we can review early injection-molded part designs from your team and then provide valuable input on potential problems such as areas that may be hard to fill, areas that are too thick and may have cosmetic sinks, surfaces that require more draft, etc. We can also offer alternative details to simplify the design and reduce tooling cost, as well as make suggestions to eliminate possible cosmetic issues such as gate blush, weld lines, and warpage. Even complex designs that include elastomer soft-touch overmolding can be improved with our input to improve flow and adhesion.

So, whether you utilize Carter Design’s skills or keep the development in-house, the APT Mold team is here to help you get into production in the quickest, most cost-effective way possible. We look forward to working with you soon!