Case Study 1

Requirement - To produce pattern for large diesel engine cylinder head and crank case.

The French customer couldn’t complete the design of the cylinder head cores on their CAD system. P&D took 2D drawings and produced 3D core models by hand, these were then used by the customer to verify the internal port shapes of the cylinder head. Once verified, they were used to produce the prototype pattern equipment. Finally all aluminium production equipment was manufactured.

Result - The production of an engine that is still in use. 

Case Study 2

Requirement - To produce high quality bronze dies for producing patterns on cake lids.

The customer submitted rough hand sketches of the pattern. P&D produced a prototype hand made resin die to run trials. Once approved the resin die was scanned to create point cloud data. This in turn was used to CNC cut production dies.

Result - the customer continues to order new dies for new designs.

Case Study 3

Requirement – To produce a GRP heat resistant operating theatre light assembly. The ‘pod’ had to
be resistant to very high temperatures while being strong, stiff  and lightweight.

Working with specially sourced material, P&D developed the design, produce the mould and prototype moulding.

Result - the moulding is currently under tests that are proving to be very successful.

Case Study 4

Requirement – To produce, within two weeks, moulded PU foam seat cushion, seat back and arm rest parts for a full sized air craft show room model. This was based upon CAD data supplied by the customer.

Within ten days, using the data supplied, P&D designed tooling for the eight different designs required as well as CNC cutting all prototype tools simultaneously. After completion of the first tool, we began moulding foam parts on site.

Result – by the end of two weeks P&D had delivered all the required mouldings.

Note : Shown here is one of the seat cushion mouldings and the Eureol tool used during its manufacture.