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Flexible Tooling Success Story
A tool manufacturer in Minnesota needed to lower costs on packagingand assembly for multiple low volume products. However, they still wanted as much flexibility as possible designed into the packaging process. Because of their positive relationship with Brookdale Plastics, Inc. (BPI), they asked us to solve the problem.
Minimizing blister designs
BPI’s design team was already familiar with this customer's unique requirements from manufacturing other clamshells, shipping trays and blisters for them.
After analyzing the problem, BPI's engineering department determined that by grouping the 50 different products by common use and size, they could reduce the number of blisters necessary to nine.
Adapting to low volume runs
The unique requirements of low volume runs required creating quick changeover tooling. To minimize tooling costs and change over time, we developed the tooling based on a single thermoforming machine so that all the tooling could be rotated quickly and easily during multiple runs.
Flexibility and adaptability mean savings
The adaptable tooling and blister designs gave our customer the flexibility to run multiple products at the same time, the ability to customize graphics and SKU numbers to each run, and minimize tooling costs.
BPI helped this customer lower costs on packaging and assembly while retaining a tremendous amount of flexibility in their packaging process... a very successful partnership.
