GTI finds that 75% of a part's cost derives from the final 25% of the design. The devil is in the details. Successfully launching an advanced metal part requires proper design consulting, getting it wrong costs significant time and money.
Our design-for-manufacturing services provide optimized part design, robust tooling, and process expertise to increase yields and minimize costs. GTI will provide you with a comprehensive design review that will define specific design changes for parts, coatings, fasteners, and tools.
On average 75% of an engineered component's cost is incurred during the early phases of design. GTI works closely with program management, industrial designers, mechanical engineers, and procurement staff. We provide advanced manufacturing engineering, design guidance, supply chain development, and full life cycle management.
Tolerances that are tighter than they need to be. Surface finish requirements that kill yield. Tooling architecture that made sense on paper but creates issues at volume. GTI's DFM reviews are built to find all of it before tooling starts.
We've worked with program managers, industrial designers, mechanical engineers, and procurement at OEMs of every size. The conversation is different at each company, but the goal is always the same: get the part right, keep the cost down, and don't let the supply chain be the reason the program is late.
We stay involved from concept through production ramp, not just at the beginning.
"Replacing aluminum structures and heat sinks with magnesium reduced weight by 50% plus it provided the improved strength to make our LED headlamp possible, a crucial competitive advantage. Heat dissipation with magnesium heat sinks was superior. Vastly reducing the carbon footprint in manufacturing using Mg and eliminating the need to protect for corrosion was a bonus."
Our consulting covers thixomolding, metal injection molding, die casting (aluminum and magnesium), powdered metal, and machining.
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