Custom Services
Engineering and Design Services
Tooling and Manufacturing
Longwood applies its extensive tooling expertise to providing the best possible service internally and externally. Our integrated capabilities allow us to consistently deliver cost effective solutions to a capital cost-intensive need.
Services Include:
- Integrated Design & Build
- Cavity Registration Capability of less than 0.003"
- Sprue Optimization
- Flashless Technology
- EDM and Laser Insert Detailing
- Full Maintenance & Retrofit
- Compound development
- Testing & Prototyping
- Process Optimization
- Prototype and Production Tool Designs
- Design Revisions for Production Improvements
- EDM Electrode Designs
- Integration Between Product Design and Tool Room
- Design of Fixturing and Gauging
- Tooling Supplier Interface, Including Data Exchange
- Production Support Through Manufacturing of Production Machine Parts, Tooling
- Troubleshooting and Revising, Tooling Setups and Tool Maintenance
- Prototype and Production Tooling Manufacturing
Typical Tool Design Process
- Product Information Received From Product Engineering or Sales
- Information Reviewed to Insure Proper Tool Design for Quoted
- Process via Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Tool Design Generated
- Tool Design Information E-Forwarded to Tool Room
- Tool Design Processed Through CAM System
- Tooling is Manufactured Using a Combination of CNC and non-CNC Machine Tools
- Tooling is Inspected and Released to Process Engineering If Appropriate, Tooling is Processed in Accordance the Product Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Prototype and Production Tool Designs
- Design Revisions for Production Improvements
- EDM Electrode Designs
- Integration Between Product Design and Tool Room
- Design of Fixturing and Gauging
- Tooling Supplier Interface, Including Data Exchange
- Production Support Through Manufacturing of Production Machine Parts, Tooling Troubleshooting and Revising, Tooling Setups and Tool Maintenance
