PROJECT PROPOSAL

Individual Project Proposal



Individual Project Proposal

Purpose

The aim of this paper is to discuss about the problem solving engineering project of Mol-Son Company.

Engineering Analysis & Problem Solving

A customer needed a solution to a very difficult cost problem on an important program. Mol-Son was called upon to develop a solution utilizing our knowledge and expertise in engineering, design, mold making, and injection molding with our extensive library of design and analysis software. Mol-Son was able to present a tooling strategy that allowed the concurrent manufacturing of two complex parts, which were very dissimilar in size, together in the same mold (Roper, 2007). We executed the strategy which allowed our customer to meet the competitive cost requirements outlined and successfully launch the program, producing these 28 circuit and 64 circuit connectors.

20 Way Male Connector Systems

A customer approached Mol-Son with a serious production problem. They had high scrap rates and low quality due to poor product and tool design engineering. They were unable to produce enough parts to satisfy their program commitments. The Mol-Son team critiqued the product design and made modifications. Next, an evaluation of the tool design and construction yielded the need for significant design modifications to improve the retention / registration of the twenty 90 degree terminal / wire assemblies to be over molded into a sealed connector system.

Additionally, a costly secondary heat staking operation was eliminated by engineering the required component as part of the existing molding operation (Michener, 2005). Mol-Son's solution solved the customer's high scrap rate and low quality problems while additionally providing a significant cost saving of the offline secondary operation. This was accomplished in a timely manner, allowing Mol-Son's customer to provide product to their customer without causing supply interruption.

4 & 8 Way Sealed Micropin Connector System

An automotive customer's very high volume sealed connector ...