MICRO MOULDING | NEWS
Indo-MIM, a global leader in MIM technology, has always boasted open innovation and is an one-stop solution for all technological issues. The company is equipped with in-house tooling capabilities required for producing the MIM components that could be moulded as per the customer need. One of the primary benefits of MIM is elimination of expensive secondary operations by virtue of achievement of tight dimensional tolerances through its inherent consistency. Getting this benefit with lead times that allows meeting the aggressive product launch timelines can be a challenge when sourcing MIM components from a conventional PIM company. However, with Indo-MIM, this is always a dream come true — a mission accomplished. At Indo-MIM, they call it “Mission MIMPossible.”
It is indeed rare to find a MIM-house with tooling lead times shorter than 12 weeks. When Indo-MIM was established 16 years ago, it was quick to realise that speed to market is very important to reach the global customers. It didn’t take long to realise that an in-house tool room would be a critical component of meeting the customer’s demanding lead-time requirements. Today, Indo-MIM sports a world-class tool room, capable of delivering 45-50 MIM tools per month. In some cases Indo-MIM is able to manufacture tooling and submit samples with lead times as low as 14 days.
The knowledge and practices on how to do this stay in-house because the capabilities are in-house and the expertise stays in- house. Indo-MIM does not have to wait for the customer to figure out how to reduce the operations as it has teams of product and manufacturing engineers giving out the best MIM design possible at a minimal of cost, through a structures product development process.
Indo-MIM has a full range of state-of-the-art tool making and support equipment which is capable of making MIM tooling for components with weight varying from less than 1 g to over 200 g. Based on the complexity of the tool, the company can run from 1 to 32 cavities thereby helping to ensure that the moulding costs per shot are minimised.
Good equipment selection is only half the job of developing a world-class tool room. Indo-MIM’s real strength is in the hard work and expertise of the tool makers and operators. Constant and systematic training is a part of the ethos of the tool room. Not only for the tooling capabilities, but Indo-MIM also boasts of the 6-axis robot installed at its moulding shop, which is not only responsible for consistency in the moulding process, but also doubles the output by going for a larger number of cavities. The quality of the product remains good and due to the consistency, the part handling damages also get reduced.
Overall, Indo-MIM has helped global product designers realise their dreams in true sense by helping them modify both design and materials, to suit the end-customer and application requirement.
13 | commercial micro manufacturing international Vol 7 No.2
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