Engineerig Expertise

The Rubbercraft Process

Engineering Expertise

Engineering expertise and know-how combined with design and test

Expertise in solid modeling delivers insight to the design and, combined with test, provides part or component refinement and optimization.

Rubbercraft's engineering team has hundreds of man years of experience in:
• Materials:
• understanding the material science
• material behavior, mechanics and physical properties
• material physics and chemistry
• Engineering drawings
• CAD applications including Solid Works
• 3D modeling with CATIA
• Seamless transfer of data; direct customer system-to-Rubbercraft system CATIA modeling conversion
• Analysis of tolerance build-up for manufacturing and assembly
• Feature analysis to ensure that our design models are complete and capable of
providing the definition needed for machining and secondary operations
• Ensuring that basic features such as sizing and thickness are sound in the application
• Documenting engineering configuration concepts and design integration

Applying a Concurrent Systems Engineering Approach to an Integrated Solution

• Often, customers will come to Rubbercraft with a particular need, such as sealing a critical system, without an understanding of how to accomplish the solution. It may be as fundamental as the need to have two components sealed from outside air pressure or the need to seal out dust, dirt and sand. Or it may be a complicated and demanding application requirement.
• Getting involved in the design and the development of the component at its initial stage delivers great value to the customer. Rubbercraft's system engineering expertise and our collaborative working relationships support this concurrent engineering approach. By interfacing directly with the customers' technical community, we add significant improvement in the overall lifecycle performance of the solution and deliver more impact and better value to our customers.
• how is the component going to be used; its environment
• what is the customer's manufacturing process
• mating assemblies
• recommendation on materials and construction geometry that are compatible with the installation requirement
• development of a material
• validation of a design in terms of, for example, how many lifecycles will the component be able to withstand

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