At Rutland Plastics we are looking at ways of improving and innovating. We have customers from all sectors of industry from agricultural, construction, medical, utilities and more. As our customer base is so broad our expertise has to adapt with each customer but one thing is the same - we are experts in injection moulding solutions.
We have our own fully equipped toolroom, Stratasys Fortus 380 carbon fibre 3D printer, Techman collaborative robots and automation wizards and so can design bespoke solutions to manufacturing and assembly problems.
This video shows a bespoke solutions using our in house designed and printed carbon fibre tooling and the jig consists of 20mm thick aluminium, machined using our new MAZAK vcn-530c CNC miller. The pneumatic equipment such as solenoid valves, air fittings, rotary actuators are all purchased from SMC.
Items printed in Nylon 12 CF can be up to 70% lighter than aluminium, therefore vastly reducing the payload burden, improving robot speed, motor efficiency and consequently extending the time between preventive maintenance intervals.
