TDS & Associates

Professional Plastics Consulting, LLC

We offer product contract support by suppling a Senior Technical Development Engineer. He posesses leadership experience in process optimization, system design, project management, mold, and process development.  He has an extensive background in plastic engineered resins along with a strong knowledge in runnerless molding, tooling, product design, and technology resources. Creative and innovative approaches to solve issues with part design, mold design and process development of automotive and consumer goods.  A decisive common sense technical problem solver who can improve your bottom line.

Services Available

New products/molds:

  • Material selection recommendations
  • Part design reviews for part optimization
  • Runner and gating reviews
  • Tool steel selections
  • Venting recommendations
  • Mold design reviews
  • Initial mold trial support
  • Process development
  • Equipment recommendations
  • Secondary operations support
  • Training in materials, design, and processing

Existing products/molds:

  • Issue resolution/trouble shooting 6 sigma methodology
  • Process optimization
  • Cycle time reductions
  • Set-up time reductions
  • Material substitutions
  • Material handling
  • Plant layout/Lean Mfg
  • Sharing of best practice