P2P - Path-2-Production

At the Concept Stage, Boedeker Plastics helps you navigate the complex world of plastic materials to ensure your project starts on the right foot. Our technical service engineers offer the following:

• Material Selection: We guide you through selecting the best materials based on your application needs, considering factors such as strength, stiffness, dimensional stability, and cost sensitivity.
• Material Availability: We ensure the chosen material is available in the required shapes and sizes, helping you avoid delays due to material shortages.
• Tradename Concerns: Our team helps you navigate the various tradenames and formulations of plastics, ensuring you select the right one for your project.
• Design Capabilities: We provide insights into the design capabilities of different materials, helping you understand what can be achieved with each option.
• Material Certs/Specs: We supply detailed material certifications and specifications, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Tolerance Capabilities: We help you understand the tolerance capabilities of different materials to ensure your design can be manufactured accurately.

During the Modeling Stage, Boedeker Plastics provides comprehensive engineering support to turn your design concepts into detailed models. Our services include:

• 3D Printing Support: We offer 3D printing capabilities to quickly create prototypes and models, allowing you to test form, fit, and function early in the development process.
• FEA Analysis: Our finite element analysis (FEA) services help you predict how your design will perform under various conditions, identifying potential issues before they become costly problems.
• Engineering Design: We assist with detailed engineering design, ensuring your product is optimized for performance and manufacturability.
• Reverse Engineering: Our team can reverse engineer existing components to improve designs or integrate new features.
• DOE Programs: We support the design of experiments (DOE) programs to evaluate and optimize your designs systematically.
• Development Engineers: Our experienced development engineers provide expert guidance and support throughout the modeling stage, ensuring your design meets all technical requirements.

In the Prototype Stage, Boedeker Plastics delivers high-quality prototypes that allow you to test and refine your designs. Our capabilities include:

• Precision Machined Components: We specialize in precision CNC machining plastic parts, ensuring your prototypes meet specifications.
• Extensive Inventory: Our multi-million plastic inventory allows us to quickly produce prototypes, as we have a wide range of readily available materials.
• Annealing Ovens and Stress Relief: Our annealing ovens and stress relief processes ensure that your prototypes are free from internal stresses, resulting in more accurate and reliable parts.
• Deburring Abilities: We provide deburring services to ensure your prototypes have smooth, finished edges and surfaces.
• Precision Plastic Only Machining: We focus exclusively on plastic machining, allowing us to achieve the highest levels of precision and quality and eliminating issues with cross-contamination of metals in critical applications for applications in the medical, semiconductor, and other industries.

Boedeker Plastics excels in the Production Stage, providing the capabilities to scale your project from prototypes to full-scale production. Our services include:

• Injection Molding: With 13 injection molding machines ranging from 28 to 330 tons, we can handle various production volumes and part sizes.
• In-House Mold Design: Our in-house mold design team ensures that your molds are optimized for quality and efficiency.
• Mold Flow Analysis: We use mold flow analysis to predict and solve potential manufacturing issues, ensuring high-quality parts with minimal defects.
• High-Volume Machining: Our advanced machining capabilities allow us to produce large quantities of parts quickly and accurately.
• Quality Assurance: We implement rigorous quality control processes, including first article inspection and advanced metrology, to ensure your parts meet the highest standards.
• Just-In-Time Inventory: We offer Just-In-Time inventory services to help you manage your production schedules and reduce inventory costs, delivering parts as you need them.
• Dock to Stock: Our proven quality and inspection processes allow your parts to go directly into stock without additional inspection, saving you time and resources.
• UDI & Laser Marking: We provide unique device identification (UDI) and laser marking services for medical devices, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements and high precision in part identification.