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Crescent Doubles Production Capacity While Cutting Production Costs by 18%

Demand for a Diagnostic Tool Outruns Production Limits

 

A global OEM and longtime Crescent Industries customer needed a customized, automated, and high-throughput solution to capitalize on a successful product—and they needed it fast.

As demand for its regent dipstick exploded due to rapidly increasing market share, this OEM struggles to supply hospital labs with a vital tool used for patient screening.  The OEM's current injection mold and labor-intensive downstream process both had to be completely redesigned for much higher throughput.

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  • Program Challenges: Meet the Surge in Demand without Surging Production Costs

    This customer turned to Crescent to take over production for this part, which was originally being manufactured by another contract manufacturer. As a result of this vendor consolidation, the original 4-cavity hot runner mold was transferred to Crescent. While this tooling served them well in the past, both the OEM and Crescent knew it wouldn’t meet forecasted demand. A new mold would be needed.

     

    The dipstick is a simple, single-use plastic part used for patient screening which is bought in bulk and packaged in sleeves. What wasn’t simple was designing a new 8-cavity mold and a fully automated work cell to produce the dipstick. Crescent had to carefully manage the many competing constraints of this price-sensitive product:

     

    • Upfront equipment costs
    • Production throughput
    • Shop floor space
    • Per part cost
    • Injection molding cycle time

     

    On top of that, reserve production capacity had to be designed into the whole workflow to avoid this same problem down the road.

  • Crescent’s Solution: More Mold Cavities & a Custom-Designed Automated Work Cell

  • Results: Production Capacity for Future Growth, 18% in Production Savings Now

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