- Designing, prototyping, fabricating and/or testing mold and tooling
- Engineering and process development
- Applying material application study
- Conducting emperature study
- Studying injection time analysis
- Performing a gate seal study
- Conducting a cavity balance assessment
- Performing a rack and hold pressure study
- Conducting first article test runs by engineers, tool makers, production supervisors, and operators
- Ensuring quality assurance, including inspecting testing of the parts produced including dimension checks, visual inspections, non-destructive testing, leak testing, and other part specific tests
Business Activities That May Qualify
Plastic Injection Molding Company
R&D Tax Credits Realized:
$32,000
Annual Revenue: $1.5 Million
This project was to develop a process to manufacture components for a medical face mask utilized in sleep apnea conditions. The company’s design necessitated size variation, component mobility and alternative tooling configurations. They began the evaluation process with project specifications, including a cosmetically clean plastic finish, elimination of potential flash and multiple size variations of the final product. The company made appropriate adjustments in shrink rate to achieve the optimal material thickness
Plastic Injection Molding Company
R&D Tax Credits Realized:
$75,000
Annual Revenue: $4 Million
Taking on development of a new airline vent tube component, this company sought to improve the product using aluminum as the material composition while eliminating fiberglass from the design. They developed the original project concepts and evaluated the performance specifications to determine the tooling required to build the product. After reviewing the specifications and design criteria, they assessed technical obstacles inherent to the project and created a plan to develop the prototype system.
Plastic Injection Molding Company
R&D Tax Credits Realized:
$192,000
Annual Revenue: $35 Million
his project was to develop a process to manufacture components for a medical face mask utilized in sleep apnea conditions. The company’s design necessitated size variation, component mobility and alternative tooling configurations. They began the evaluation process with project specifications, including a cosmetically clean plastic finish, elimination of potential flash and multiple size variations of the final product. The company made appropriate adjustments in shrink rate to achieve the optimal material thickness.