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Engineering & Rapid Prototypes Today’s OEM’s must focus on core competencies, speed-to-market and reducing overhead. As a result, OEM’s demand faster, more competitive, higher quality parts. In response, Spectrus has developed a range of services related to our delivery of plastic components to our customers:
Design, Engineering & Technical Support: At Spectrus, the design function is part of a total product development solution geared toward reducing time-to-market and minimizing product-lifecycle cost by applying design disciplines throughout the project. Throughout the design process, manufacturability reviews and other design analyses are conducted to keep projects on-schedule. Spectrus supports New product development from drawing to final production, tool construction, product design and engineering and deliver competitive, high performance molds. Design Services Our engineering team uses AutoCad 2005, Mechanical Desktop 2005, and Autodesk Inventor 9 to produce 2D and 3D wireframe and solid model designs for a variety of applications. For optical designs we utilize BRO ray tracing software to predict light distribution patterns. Outdoor lighting layouts use LumenMicro software for modeling. Spectrus engineering has extensive experience in designing components for injection molding, thermoforming and profile extrusion applications. The ability to marry multiple processes in a single product design increases flexibility and design options. Engineering Services The advantage of working with a one-stop-shop is that the responsibility for design, tooling and production all rests with one vendor. Spectrus will take your product specifications and produce a design which allows optimization of tooling and production. Project Management Our forte is cradle-to-grave project management. We provide Gantt charts on tooling and design progress as requested. In addition to tracking in house work, we coordinate outsourced design and engineering, purchased component sourcing, prototypes and other services. Rapid Prototyping By taking advantage of the latest prototyping techniques, Spectrus provides proof of concept and visual models to evaluate a design prior to tooling release. We have in house laser machining, CNC fabrication and thermoformed prototypes and we have local sourcing for SLA models. Prototypes are available in acrylic and polycarbonate using Stereo Lithography (SLA), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology and other processes that fit the requirements of the project. Mold Design, Development and Maintenance Spectrus’ long heritage in optical molding has benefited all of our customers for years in design, development and maintenance of molds … from single cavity, open and shut molds to complex, multi-cavity, multiple-gate, multiple-action tools. The disciplines required in Optical molding has translated into unsurpassed mold maintenance programs including formal inspection processes, end-of-run processes and skilled polishing to ensure mold specifications and long-term mold performance. Testing and Evaluation Equipment
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10163 U.S. Hwy. 31 North • Charlevoix, MI 49720-9649
Telephone +1.231.547.6584 • Fax +1.231.547.5833 • Toll free telephone 800.228.5275 • Toll free fax 800.628.5275
Manufacturing Locations: Charlevoix, Michigan • Dickson, Tennessee • Olive Branch, Mississippi