Start To Finish Solution

The Rubbercraft Process

Rubbercraft Offers a "Start to Finish" Solution

From concept and design to full production, the Rubbercraft advantage is a "Start to Finish" solution. It starts with understanding the customer's need and what the solution must do.

Applying technology, innovation
and know how to customer needs

Qualifying and quoting the requirement
Rubbercraft is thorough in its qualifying and quoting process to better understand customer detailed requirements up front and early on in the process. As part of our qualifying process, we will let our customer know if we are the best match for their requirement.

The Company has an extensive list of customer questions and inquiries that establishes and documents the need and requirement:
• program understanding, present and future,
• applications,
• history of the part or component - procurement, performance, quality, maintainability, reliability,
• a change to a current product,
• the component environment such as temperature, ozone exposure, gases
• fuel compatibility or resistance requirements,
• constant cycling, vibration

This process begins the working relationship that customers have come to value - a concurrent systems engineering approach that gives Rubbercraft the ability to recommend the elastomer, the potential construction configuration, if the component would best be reinforced with a fabric or a Teflon®-type of a coating, what is the next mating surface, is there a need for a low coefficient of friction against its next mating surface, how is the elastomer going to be attached, what attachment mechanism does the customer have in mind, how this particular elastomer or rubber will interface with the next assembly and the number of units required.

The gathered information brings the customer and Rubbercraft together in a process that aids in the specification, design and tooling alternatives, optimizes the solution deliverable, and saves time and money.

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