Services

Vanschilt Consulting Ltd. provides a full range of services which fall into in four main categories:

Part and Mold Design

The Thixomolding® Part Design Guidelines© and Thixomolding® Tooling Design Guidelines© manuals for Thixomolding®, written by Charles Vanschilt fully describe:

• The part design guidelines – how to design a part to make it moldable
  
  
• The formulas for calculating the correct size of Thixomolding® machine required for any given part including cavitation (using fill time analysis)
  
  
• The formulas for calculating the correct gate, runner and sprue sizes for any given part
  
  
• Tolerances – linear tolerances, flatness tolerances, parting line tolerances, moving die component tolerances and draft
  
  
• Mold design elements - vacuum assist, gate types and location, hot sprue and hot runner, ejection methods, mold heating, mold steels and hardening – mold base, inserts and ejector pins.

Project Management

Our complete project management services take you through every step of the Thixomolding® process:

• From your plant – layout design through setup
  
  
• To your mold – design
  
  
• Then procurement – of molds, trim dies, and parts – from tool design to implementing the manufacture of the parts

Training

Training your Design Engineers in part and mold design is a 2-day workshop, using the manuals written by Charles Vanschilt. In these two days we cover all the elements of the design thoroughly, utilizing lectures, question and answer sessions where we can analyze customer parts, and written and visual media.

The management staff and sales engineers are presented with the Thixomolding® philosophy in one ½-day seminar, to help them better understand the process to sell the technology to their perspective customers.

Advisory

Our knowledge and expertise in the Thixomolding® process over the past 15 years allows us to offer Advisory Services for the successful implementation of the process in your facility. We will guide you through the design process working with your customers and designers, the tooling process working with your toolroom through to the production process working with your production and quality personnel and finally with your tool maintenance personnel. We can assist or manage all or any of the above mentioned elements depending on your particular needs.