Design and Development Services:
Howarth Development Associates is able to provide you with original design concepts for a new component or to redesign your part for manufacture in an alternative material. We can help you discriminate between several designs using cost models and finite element analysis. Because of our extensive plastics experience, we can discriminate between a design which is adequate, and one which will meet your requirements and provide optimum processability. We know tooling and are able to provide direction in proper part layout and help you avoid unnecessary tooling complications.
We use a Windows-based solid modeling package called SolidWorks, which is able to import a variety of file types. We find that ACIS, Parasolid, and STEP are excellent transition formats and are virtually infallible. IGES data is usually good but can be troublesome if it originates in older modeling packages. Once imported, we can manipulate your model to provide necessary design alterations to make a design suitable for alternate materials or a design improvement.
This is a thermoplastic composite wheel we designed with Hiper Technology.
