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Rutty
Tool-Less Plastics - Providing Electronics Packaging
Solutions
We
want to give you an inside view of our designing process
which helps you to understand the procedures involved.
STEP
1 – Determine
packaging requirements & feasibility
It is essential that you know
what you want and need from your customised enclosure.
Many things need to be considered when designing an
enclosure. The checklist below can be a handy tool for
determining feasibility.
CHECKLIST:
• Product description
• Where is
it used? By who? How often?
• Are there
any esthetic concerns and preferences?
• Colour preferences?
• Entry into
the case for servicing?
• What comes
out of the case? (connectors, fans, cables, pigtails
etc)
• Internal
component mounting? (LCDs, keyboards, PCBs)
• Do membranes
or labels need to be incorporated?
• Is screen
printing required?
• Is EMC shielding
required?
• Any flame
ratings?
• UV stability?
• Operating
temperatures?
• Drop, shock,
vibration testing?
• Non slip
rubber feet?
• Production
quantities?
• Time frame?
• What is your
budget?
The above checklist, together with rough sketch showing
critical dimensions is usually enough for us to indicate
ball park figures for both development and production.
| Click
here and you can print out a checklist (PDF)
and fill it out. You will find a space where you
can draw a rough sketch with approx dimensions.
Please fax completed checklist to (02) 9457 2299. |
Step
2 – Economic feasibility
• Is the K-Box
process appropriate for prototyping? (see
FAQ page)
• Is the K-Box
process appropriate as an interim product prior to injection
moulding?
• Is the K-Box
process appropriate for on going production?
Step
3 – Confirm the concept
Budgets, functionality and time frame can have a bearing
on the most appropriate design for your enclosure. In
close consultation with our sales staff, we can show you
samples or pictures of similar designs, which will suit
you best. Or, you can come up with your own concept sketches
for us to work with. Click
here for concept sketches.
Step
4 – Finalise details
Iterate with our design team to finalise all the finer
points like clearances, assembly, interfaces etc. The
more accurate the information our design team receives,
the quicker the development will be. ie. All internal
components such as PCBs, screens, labels, connectors etc
should be supplied. If component drawings are also available
then that is better still.
Step
5 – Prototype
We supply you with 1-2 protoypes manufactured in the same
manner as production volumes.
Step
6 – Iterate prototype
Step
7 – Production |
