LGG Charlesworth Ltd, Spring Lane, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1BS, UK.
Glossary
Aluminium Tooling
An efficient way of manufacturing tooling by directly machining into aluminium material. Usually used for small quantity mould tools or prototype mould tool.
CAD
Computer Aided Design: The use of computers to detail drawings for accurate representations. Also used for producing 3 dimensional models which can be scaled, rotated and sectioned to show any views required.
CAM
Computer Aided Manufacture: The use of computers to simulate and calculate cutter paths when producing programs for CNC machines.
Compression Moulding
Moulding process using heat and pressure to form mouldings using thermoseting plastics materials.
Elastomers
Thermoplastic elastomers are materials that have highly flexible rubber like attributes.
ERP
Electronic Requirement Planning
Injection Moulding
Moulding process using predominantly thermoplastics materials, although thermoset and thermoplastic elastomer mouldings can also be produced by this method.
Inserts and Outserts
The use of inserts of another material being placed directly into the mould tool and the plastic material either moulded over the insert, or inside the insert. Also these materials can be introduced into the component after moulding.
Integrated 3D CAM
The integration of design and manufacturing computer software.
JIT
'Just In Time': A philosophy for efficient materials buying, i.e. only purchasing and receiving materials when required, therefore reducing stock holding.
KanBan
The method of controlling manufacturing requirements by using stock levels as a mechanism to trigger production requirements, therefore reducing stock levels and highlighting manufacturing process problems which would normally by unseen with large stock levels.
LCP
Liquid Crystal Polymer
Moldflow
The use of computer software to help predict moulding fill patterns, stress areas and other possible moulding problems before manufacturing tooling.
MRP
The use of computer software which aids manufacturing resource planning, allowing more efficient utilisation of machine times, stock control, bills of materials and other assorted activities used in manufacturing.
PEEK
Poly Ether Ether Ketone
PES
Poly Ether Sulphone
Plating
The addition of metallic material to surfaces of mouldings for reasons such as aesthetical, EMC shielding, etc.
Rapid Prototyping
Manufacture of components using a fast reliable modelling process, such as Stereo Lithography - SLA, Selective Laser Sintering - SLS, Fused deposition modelling - FDM, to produce representative models.
Rapid Sintered Tooling
Manufacture of tooling using powered metallurgy processes to mainly form fast prototype tooling, although production tooling can be manufactured with this process.
Selective Laser Sintering
A rapid prototype technique used to manufacture prototypes.
Stereo Lithography
A rapid prototype technique used to manufacture prototypes.
Tampo Printing
A process used to print plastics using a pad to transfer specific printed details, i.e. logos onto components.
Thermoplastics
Plastics materials used in moulding processes i.e. ABS, PP, PC, PPS, etc.
Thermosets
Plastics materials used in moulding process i.e DAP, Epoxy, Phenoilics, Melamine, etc.
Tooling
Tooling is the general term used for describing the formers that produce the plastic mouldings. Each plastic moulding is produced from a dedicated tool.
Ultrasonic welding
A technique used for joining plastics, using high frequency vibration to weld items together.
Early involvement in your project allows us to offer you full support in each step of production - helping you achieve your objectives, maintain quality, meet your deadlines and control your budgets.
LGG Charlesworth Ltd. are fully ISO9001 / 2000 certified. Our quality control includes: destructive & non destructive testing, pressure testing and both digital & optical microscopic testing.
With over 80 years experience in a wide range of market sectors, we recognise there will be certain requirements specific to your own industry.
At Charlesworth we provide a total manufacturing facility which includes injection, compression and transfer moulding, assembly and secondary operations capability.
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