Could Bring to your business

• Product Designs that are optimised before expensive tooling decisions are made
• Right first time tooling that moves from development to production smoothly
• Consistent product quality, delivered with the flexibility to reduce your stock-holding

” We are very pleased with the technical support, flexibility and level of service that Merit gives us, with regard to both new product projects and day to day issues.”-Senior Buyer at Bosch Lawn & Garden

At Merit Plastics, we offer a strong technical approach to injection moulding that enable you to bring complex engineering products to market with improved product quality.

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Over the years, we’ve helped many companies get their products to market successfully by:

• Optimising their product designs for injection moulding
• Making ‘right first time’ tooling an achievable goal
• Developing a moulding process that ensures consistent quality

Optimising your product design for injection moulding

Using mouldflow simulation we evaluate your product design and make

recommendations to optimise it for injection moulding early in the development phase and before expensive tooling decisions are made

Advance Quality Planning – Getting it right first time

We use an exhaustive advance quality planning and development process to ensure a smooth transition from development to production. Comprising a review of the product design, tooling construction, materials selection, quality requirements, trials, and packaging details, this process makes ‘right first time’ tooling an achievable goal.

Achieve process capability in production

Once tooling has been manufactured, we optimise the moulding process by varying key parameters to identify the optimal settings within which the agreed part quality can be achieved. These settings are then validated using our statistical capability study, giving us and our customers confidence that the moulding process is optimised and able to produce parts consistently within specification

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New in House prototyping available

Prototpyes of your design are crucial in the product development cycle, using Merit Plastic Mouldings Technical approach and design advice along with new in house protyping you can:-

• Find issues early
• Improve a design concept quickly
• You can iteratively revise and refine your idea in a matter of hours
• Gather design feedback and compare variations
• Demonstrate your design in context

Prototyping is an integral part of the ‘Front End’ of Merit Plastic Mouldings Technical approach for moulding, the range technical services that help our customers get their new products to market succesfully, such as:-

• Advice on design for injection moulding
• Moldflow simulation
• Comprehensive Advance Quality Planning process
• Tooling trials and statistical process capability studies
• Dimensional reports
• Gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies
• Pre-production validation runs
• and many more

Understanding your requirements is crucial to success, from prototyping options, simulation and design advice with the aim of delivering your expectations. As every project is different, we tailor our services to support your new product developments where it is need most

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Merit Plastic Mouldings Ltd has a strong history in developing People,  skills, and embracing new technology with the aim of enhancing our technical offering

With one eye on the future Merit Plastics are currently seeking to increase our apprenticeship numbers. Our current apprentice, Matthew, who is in his 2nd year has this to say ;-

‘I am coming towards the end of my second year and look forward to another two years of developing my skills. I made the decision to apply during my final year of A levels to give myself a greater range of options to pursue after I attained my qualifications. Even though I had successful applications to a couple of universities, I still chose to follow up with the apprenticeship and haven’t looked back.

Being able to apply my training in a real work scenario has given me a greater perspective on the things I learn. I have had to function as a member of a team to help keep production running. I need to keep my work to a high standard otherwise others will be affected. Experiencing employment has kept me motivated and working hard. Being paid is also a rather enjoyable experience.

MPM has provided me with a vast range of training opportunities, learning how to program our visual inspection machine was interesting, but it also helped with my microprocessors unit at college. Seeing Similarities helped me grasp assembly language  that little bit quicker. I have no doubt the knowledge will also come in handy when learning to program our robot. Another opportunity in the near future I will be able to get to grips with is 3D printing. It would be an understatement to say I was looking forward to it.’

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As an OEM with a suite of between 10-100 (or even more) injection mould tools you will be constantly striving to get the most out of your existing suppliers by way of price, quality, delivery and technical ability

Mitigate the risks to your organisation by taking advantage of our systematic transfer process. We apply our time-tested approach rigorously to our transfer projects, which ensures we have a robust transfer plan, that we hit key milestones, shorten lead-times and meet the customers’ expectations

We have a robust and systematic process to manage the complexities of a tooling transfer:

• Advance Quality planning
• Tooling trials and statistical process capability studies
• Dimensional reports
• Gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies
• Pre-production validation runs

At Merit we offer a lot more than just injection moulding – we support your  product development process with a range of technical services that help you get your products to market successfully. To Complement the tool transfer process we also offer:

• Advice on design for injection moulding
• Moldflow simulation
• Materials selection advice
• Post mould operations for added value
• Non-contact Vision Inspection

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• Full 3D CNC Controlled
• State of the Art image processing technology
• Providing accuracy of 2µm and an object range of 250/200/200(mm) (X/Y/Z)
• The new system provides automatic non-contact measuring and inspection of moulded components
• Fully programmable to meet the full range of measuring required of bespoke technical moulding
• Accurate repeatability of measurements
• Increase in Key control dimensions during production
• Precision measurement at the press of a button

The capabilities of the vision inspection will be an invaluable tool in the development of new products and tooling, slipping seamlessly into our company ethos of process capability and development to achieve consistent quality

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Using a systematic and methodical approach to new product development in injection moulding can help bring your products to market effectively – reducing development time, avoiding costly tooling modifications and improving part quality.

At Merit Plastics we use a thorough and time-tested approach to your project with real benefits at each stage.

• Save on costly tooling modifications and improve part quality by getting your design optimised early in development
• Reduce complexity, time and cost from your new developments with a structured AQP process
• Achieve consistent quality, low PPMs and reduced manufacturing costs with a controlled and repeatable moulding process

If you’d like to know more about the benefits our systematic approach to injection moulding can bring, get in touch on (0)1379 644 321.

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• Advice on design for injection moulding
• Moldflow simulation
• Prototyping
• Materials selection advice
• Advanced Quality Planning
• Tooling trials and statistical process capability studies
• Dimensional reports
• Gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies
• Pre-production validation runs
• And lots more

In the case above, this customer required prototypes on short notice. Understanding their requirements, the most suitable prototyping option was selected and samples were delivered to their expectations. As every project is different, we tailor our services to support your new product developments where it’s needed most. If you’d like to know more about how these services could benefit your product developments, get in touch on (0)1379 644 321.

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Over the years, we’ve helped many companies get their products to market successfully by:

• Optimising their product designs for injection moulding,
• Making ‘right first time’ tooling an achievable goal, and
• Developing a moulding process that ensures consistent quality.

If these factors are important to you, read on to see how our technical approach to injection moulding can benefit your business.

Optimising your product design for injection moulding

Our experience in the design of parts for injection moulding enables us to conform to best practice design for manufacture.

Using Moldflow simulation we evaluate your product design and make recommendations to optimise it for injection moulding early in development, and before expensive tooling decisions are made.

Advanced Quality Planning – getting it ‘right first time’

We use an exhaustive advanced quality planning and development process to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.

Comprising of a comprehensive review of the product design, tooling construction, materials selection, quality requirements, trials, and packaging details, this process makes ‘right first time’ tooling an achievable goal.

Achieve process capability in production

Once tooling has been manufactured, we optimise the moulding process by varying key parameters to identify the optimal settings within which the agreed part quality can be achieved.

These settings are then validated using our statistical capability study, giving us and our customers confidence that the moulding process is optimised, and able to produce parts consistently and within specification.

If these benefits are important to your business, get in touch to find out more on (0)1379 644 321.

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As an OEM with a suite of between 10 – 100 (or even more) injection moulding tools, you will be constantly striving to get the most out of your existing suppliers by way of price, quality, delivery, and technical capability.

This may include entering into long-term partnerships, signing price agreements or sharing process improvement savings with your moulders.

However, at times it’s necessary to move away from an existing supplier – because of uncompetitive prices, poor service, lack of technical capability, or maybe even a change in your wider sourcing strategy.

So how do you mitigate the risks to your organisation when transferring tools to a new supplier?

As part of the selection you would have undoubtedly considered price, quality, delivery flexibility, capability, machine range, and many other criteria to make your final choice of supplier.

However, ensuring that your chosen moulder has a robust and systematic process to manage the complexities of a tooling transfer can mean the difference between a transfer that runs smoothly, to schedule, and causes minimal disruption to supply, and one that is haphazard, and characterised by fire-fighting.

So what would a robust and systematic approach look like? Here’s what we use at Merit.

We apply this time-tested approach rigorously to all our transfer projects here at Merit, which ensures we have a robust transfer plan, that we hit key milestones, shorten lead-times, and meet the customer’s expectations.

For more information on our approach and how it can work for you, call us on (0)1379 644 321.

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