The Product Design Process

Concept Stage
Involve us at the concept stage of your project ensuring a robust product design. Save time and money on iterations of product design.

Design Stage
Design consistently monitored to meet commercial expectations.Ensure the most appropriate material selection. Tooling feasibility. Design for manufacture.

Design Validation
We can validate your designs with the following software available within the Protool Group. Finite Element Analysis. Moldflow fill, warpage, pressure and weld line analysis.

Project Management
UK project managers are “time Served” toolmakers with extensive project management experience and in China are Graduate Engineers and speak, English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Production Tooling
Tooling is made in group and by a range of high accuracy sub contract toolrooms in the UK and Far East. Maintained and fully guaranteed from our ultra modern toolroom in Havant, Hampshire.

Production Part Approval Process
All new products are subject to run at rate trials. These include full ISIR and capability studies to ensure quality parts from the first order and are fully compliant with PPAP and IQ,OQ,PQ submissions and approvals.

Continuous Improvement
Quality and production KPI’s of each part are monitored at monthly meetings. The project and production teams are always looking to reduce costs and improve productivity. It is our aim to stabilise or reduce year on year pricing by cost savings.