Weiss-Aug has fused the technologies of molding and stamping, creating a unique culture where programs are developed with both processes in mind.
Weiss-Aug’s automated molding systems help provide customers with complex insert molded and reel to reel molded parts with great attention to quality at competitive prices.
INSERT MOLDING
Insert molding is a unique process where a variety of components such as, but not limited to, complex metal stampings, cast metal and screw machine parts, contacts, screws, nuts, coils, as well as other plastic parts are incorporated into plastic to create a finished component or assembly. There are many advantages to using insert molding. One example is to use it in place of heat staking to provide a part with much higher integrity and quality at a lower price.
PROCESS HIGHLIGHTS
• Fully automated and manually loaded multi-cavity systems
• Complex sensoring and vision systems ensure mold safety and product quality
• Bi-injection, 2 color or 2 materials
• Cost reduction and component consolidation
• Integrated processes: Reel to Reel insert molded parts can be assembled and then over-molded.
• Terminals can be separated during molding
Reel to Reel molding
Reel to reel insert molding is a molding process where a leadframe or carrier is fed automatically from one or more reels, through a multi-cavity mold, where plastic is over-molded onto the leadframe or carrier. It is then re-reeled onto the receiving reel(s), and shipped directly to the customer on a reel or fed into secondary forming and cutoff equipment for further processing. Parts can be shipped loose or in custom designed packaging trays or tubes. Reel to reel insert molding technology has reduced costs and enabled our customers to automate assembly operations that were previously extremely labor intensive or not economical.
Process Highlights
• Extremely small and complex, as well as larger insert molded parts can be economically
and consistently produced in a continuous fashion, with little or no need for added labor
• In line forming, cutoff and/or packaging operations
• Complex sensoring and vision systems ensure mold safety and product quality
• Parts can be delivered on a reel, or loose and custom packaged in boxes, tubes, trays, tape
and reel, etc
• A Combination of different leadframes can be molded simultaneously
• Requires only (1) top and bottom mold half versus rotary which usually requires
(2) bottom halves
Molding
Process Highlights
• Outstanding engineering, tool design and new product development support
• Innovative insert molding solutions with reduced development costs and faster time to market
• Advanced expertise with engineered thermoplastic resins and composites
• Sophisticated automation eliminates labor and insures 100% fit for use
• Complex sensoring and vision systems ensure mold safety and product quality
• Prototyping capabilities
• Assembly and other secondary operations
• Complete manufacturing capability. Weiss-Aug is completely staffed and equipped to furnish
you with your complete product, thanks to our long held philosophy of vertical integration
• Engel, Toshiba, Nissei, and Arburg presses
• Horizontal presses ranging from 60 to 170 ton, 2 to18 oz
• Vertical rotary and shuttle presses ranging from 28 to 220 ton, 1 to 8.5 oz
• Reel to Reel vertical presses ranging from 30 to 100 ton, 0.3 to 3.6 oz
