The Tolcap Rough Guide to Tolerancing Plastic Moulding
November 2019
3rd June 2019
The largest single factor in the production of scrap and rework is the components being out of tolerance. So how can a business make sure they minimise such waste?
20th July 2018
Get the most from Tolcap with minimum effort.
15th June 2018
Less scrap and rework, improved customer satisfaction, process optimization ... Martin Raines' top 10 reasons why using Tolcap makes sense for your Design / Engineering business.
30th May 2018
Profit, constructive communication, professional respect ... Richard Batchelor outlines his top 10 reasons for using Tolcap.
18th April 2018
Tolcap can help you defend your organisation and the Engineering department’s valuable resources against those business target driven issues, such as re-sourcing components, that you know will be disastrous...
30th November 2017
Richard Batchelor explains Tolcap's origins, where the data comes from and why we believe it to be very reliable.
6th September 2017
Richard Batchelor discusses the use of engineering standards in tolerance analysis.
30th August 2017
Richard Batchelor discusses design for manufacture, rework and maximizing company profits.
17th July 2017
Richard Batchelor explains why we recommend that Tolcap can be applied to most plastic moulding materials listed in DIN 16901
by using the Tolcap map applicable to the same tolerance group.
18th May 2017
Tolcap enables Designers to predict the process capability of parts even before prototype samples are produced.
Tolcap predicts Cpk - but what is Cpk, and is it the most appropriate process capability index to predict?
20th February 2017
We are sometimes asked about geometric tolerances. While Tolcap gives sound estimates of process capability for straightforward tolerances,
this is because we have extensive series production data for the maps we publish. We don’t have such data for geometric tolerances such
as flatness, roundness, etc., so we won’t compromise the Tolcap data base by publishing maps for them...
23rd May 2011
In the current economic climate no manufacturer can afford substantial waste product and the costs associated with it. However, many companies have to deal
with scrap and re-work as a direct result of out of tolerance manufacture. In an ideal world, manufacturing engineers would have sufficient input in the early
stages of the design process to minimise such quality losses. Here Martin Raines, a director of Tolcap, explains how manufacturing engineers can help mitigate
the problem by applying the correct software tools...
2nd March 2011
As a design engineer, one doesn’t always have all the necessary experience of manufacturing materials, processes and treatments to
produce a design that will result in a product that requires minimal engineering change and will keep scrap and wastage to a minimum.
One of the ways this can be achieved is to provide the designer with the expertise of a manufacturing or machining professional.
Here, Martin Raines, of tolerance software provider Tolcap, suggest five ways that good communication and accurate tolerancing
can be applied to accurately predict, and thus improve, machinability...
2nd February 2011
Design and manufacturing departments co-exist in relative harmony in modern manufacturing. Gone are the days when engineering created
the design and manufacturing produced it and never the twain should meet. However, issues that do still divide the two include
engineering change, scrap and re-work. Here, Ken Swift of tolerance software provider Tolcap argues that more attention paid to
tolerances in the first instance would help businesses get it right first time more often...