WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MATERIAL SELECTION Material selection is aided by answering a few key questions about your product, so you can begin to narrow down your options. What will the product be [...]
As you’re designing new parts, there are a variety of different factors that you’ll need to consider to prepare for production. One of the most important decisions you’ll make during product development is what kind [...]
THE DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING REVIEW The Design for Manufacturing review is intended to maximize the quality and performance of your parts and help you control your production costs. This is helpful for large and small-scale [...]
When it comes to your plastic parts, you hear a lot about the importance of material selection. And, while it can seem confusing at first, the truth is proper material selection can make a BIG [...]
DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING: A CRUCIAL STEP TOWARDS PRODUCT SUCCESS Design for Manufacturing is a crucial element of any successful push towards launching new products, ensuring designs are optimized for the manufacturing process. That's because no [...]
KASO engineers were recently challenged with finding a new material solution for Werner Paddles—makers of some of the world’s finest kayak, canoe and stand-up paddles—ultimately finding their solution in a very unlikely place: carbon fiber [...]
Already a $56 billion industry in the United States, the Medical product market shows no signs of slowing in coming years, in particular due to the continued innovation in injection molded medical devices, according to [...]
KASO Plastics engineers and custom compounder RTP Company teamed up recently to assist Werner Paddles when the company began to experience aesthetic issues with its kayak paddle blades. After experimenting with more than a dozen [...]
Aware of basic benefits gained from metal to plastic conversion, OEMs have been converting heavier metal parts into lightweight plastics for years. But what these same manufacturers may not know is that, as technology improves and [...]
