Noble is a product realization company. We can design for manufacture, convert designs for metals to plastics, prototype, source tooling, mold thermoplastic products, design and build automation systems to facilitate the molding of products, and offer complete turn-key services for the whole range of services listed.
Questions often asked about injection molding and automation. As always, we are here to answer any other questions you have through the contact form or directly by phone.
What is the lead time?
Part design can take anywhere from 1 day to several weeks. Complex assemblies with tight tolerances can undergo several rounds of design, prototyping, and testing. Once a design is complete, tooling can take another 8-16 weeks. For simple or small parts, options exist to create low-run or modular tooling in as little as 2 weeks.
Why do businesses need strategic sourcing?
Noble has been a successful addition for clients looking to reshore product manufacturing, particularly to position them for strategic success. The challenges of material supply, transportation, and workforce shortages are hitting around the globe. Our automation, relationship strength, and technical tools serve to make confident those businesses looking for both domestic and overseas options for manufacturing.
What is quality assurance?
Quality assurance (QA) is any systematic process of determining whether a product or service meets the specified requirement. QA is not the actual act of measuring or monitoring a product, it is the act of ensuring this was done correctly.
About how long does an average design project take from beginning to end?
Part design can take anywhere from 1 day to several weeks. Complex assemblies with tight tolerances can undergo several rounds of design, prototyping, and testing. Once a design is complete, tooling can take another 8-16 weeks. For simple or small parts, options exist to create low-run or modular tooling in as little as 2 weeks.
How is your customer service better than other companies?
Noble’s first core value is Do What You Say. For customer service, that means that even when something goes wrong, tenacity to seek solutions and communicate options are key. We can’t guarantee that machinery won’t break, deliveries won’t be delayed, or people won’t get sick, but we can guarantee that each order matters to our team and we take seriously our responsibility to keep customers up to date.
How can the manufacturing process of products be improved?
Products can be improved by monitoring quality data and making adjustments to process settings.
How do we go from idea to product?
Knowing the best manufacturing method for a product idea lets a design be optimized for that process. Often the “best” method isn’t dependent on the part itself, but on commercial considerations like the number of parts needed, timeline to realization, and limits on capital to allow for investment in equipment.
What are the quality management issues?
Quality management issues are all things that could go wrong leading up to production.
Examples: Supply Chain Complexity, Excess Documentation, Resistance to Technology, Over-reliance on theory as opposed to data presented, Lack of Resources and time.
What materials do we use? Which ones do we NOT use?
Noble has experience will all common commodity resins but has specific expertise in engineering grade resins with fiberglass and carbon fiber fillers. Noble does not mold PVC.