Pacific Plastics & Engineering is meticulous about maintaining precision through every step of your project's process. Registered by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) to the industry's highest ISO 9001:2000 as well as ISO 13485:2003 the Medical Standard For Quality. Designing and producing critical items such as components for anthrax detection and artificial heart valves, PP&E boasts one of the most robust quality systems in the industry, ensuring your projects are managed thoroughly from start to finish.
Our Commitment to Accuracy
To ensure your project is designed and produced exactly as needed, PP&E begins by analyzing your project design. Often, adjustments must be made to the design in order to achieve the best results. Here, we identify specific concerns, potential pitfalls, problem areas, cosmetic/functional issues and, implementing appropriate changes, arrive at the most logical and efficient plan for your project.
To maintain our commitment to precision, we carefully monitor every aspect of your project's process. And, keeping you abreast of your project's status, we create a Project Tracking folder to organize all documentation and communication that passes between the client and PP&E throughout the project. The Project Tracking folder holds items such as original design draft, adjustments made to draft, status of mold making and details on part production. We also hold Project Design Review meetings - wherein we analyze design, mold making and part production, and medical device assembly in addition to much more - so that the client may voice any questions or concerns regarding project status.
PP&E is scrupulous about every detail of your project, from drafting the design to creating its mold to producing its products - never is a detail overlooked or ignored, ensuring your project meets the highest possible standards for quality.
Staying On Track and On Time
In addition to keeping a watchful eye on every facet of your project -from mold flow analysis to part dimension review to production repeatability - we are also committed to assuring the entire process is occurring efficiently, on track and on time.
To ensure on-time delivery, we prepare and maintain the following documents:
- Project Planning Checklists so that nothing is overlooked
- Tool Room Status Reports to keep engineers abreast of the mold-making
- Tooling Progress Reports to inform customers of their project's status
Also to support on-time delivery, PP&E holds a series of meetings to evaluate your project's progress and ensure the project management team is following the proper, most efficient procedures. In these meetings, the customer can voice concerns and find them addressed and resolved.
First, we hold a Part Design Review to determine the most appropriate design for your needs. Often clients bring us designs that work on the page but not in the process. So they look to PP&E engineers to develop a design they can bring to life in the most functional, efficient manner possible. When engineering expertise is unavailable to you within your own company, PP&E is available to translate your ideas into working molds and molded parts.
Following the Part Design Review and customer award of project, PP&E conducts an internal meeting, wherein the engineering department reviews the entire project with the managers, internal concerns , quality sampling plans and part tolerance requirements are shared.
At PP&E, we let nothing escape us, ensuring total success. From meticulously kept reports to all-encompassing meetings to the most precise and efficient of operations, our projects are never off track.
Strict Procedures For Optimal Quality
To meet our high standards for quality, we follow strict procedure and criteria. Once the tool, or custom mold, is created and arrives for initial sampling, key personnel meet to establish process validation and verification guidelines.
Aiming for the highest quality and efficiency possible, PP&E carefully analyzes statistical process control (SPC), process capabilities (Cpk) and gage reliability and repeatability (R and R), working to improve the odds at every opportunity. When necessary, DOEs are performed to identify the best process for creating your part.
Once the most efficient process is selected, a first article is produced and inspected. The critical first article data is collected and documented in a report and shared with the customer. Once the customer accepts all aspects of this qualification run, the mold is released to production. Throughout the project life, first article information becomes a living document with ongoing customer feedback to ensure optimal quality.
Further, ongoing product inspection is critical to the success of your project. PP&E maintains scrupulously documented procedures for inspection; each tailored to the specific requirements of the product in question. We check products at various times during the production process, and test their measurements using gages that can be traced to national standards. We inspect and quantify every aspect of the part, working with quality plans developed specifically for each part.
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