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Who is Wellspring Technologies? |
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| Wellspring Technologies is a division of Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE), a leading producer of agricultural mechanization in India. Wellspring offers engineering and software services to organizations engaged in the field of discrete manufacturing. | |
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Specifically what engineering domains does Wellspring focus on? |
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| While we are firms believers that the sky is the limit, we are initially focusing on the injection molded engineering plastics and pressure die castings. Why? For two reasons. First, even a casual survey of industrial and consumer products today exposes the wide and increasing extent to which plastics and castings are employed across these industries, making them an appropriate choice of focus for us. Second, Wellspring has full access to a closely affiliated company division offering an internationally certified state-of-the-art engineering plastics facility with capabilities in product design, tool design and injection molded production as well as alliances with world leaders in this line of production | |
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What kinds of services will Wellspring offer in these domains? |
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| Engineering design is seldom, if ever, an end unto itself. Rather, engineers embark on design with the intent of creating a manufacturable product. Design, then, is an upstream phase in the multi-stage operation of manufacturing. The manufacturability of a design is a measure of how successfully it can be translated into high-quality and cost-effective product. A visually perfect design might be impractical to manufacture. Or, minor changes to a design can result in significantly improved tooling efficiency. While computer-based technologies have made significant strides in simulating the upstream tasks of design and analysis, there has been relatively less progress in validating manufacturability. Manufacture validation requires sound knowledge in the tooling and production domain, most of which is developed through years of experience and embedded in the minds of production floor experts, rather than within computer programs. Wellspring embodies an extensive knowledge in engineering plastics and castings, made available through years of action production expertise. Every designer at Wellspring has a strong production exposure and is highly skilled in relating design features to tooling and production implications The end effect? Design-for-manufacturability (DFM) is the only way design is ever done at Wellspring! | |
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Which application software packages are currently used? |
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Applications from PTC, SDRC and in-house development.
Advanced applications for creating "A"-class surfaces |
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Specifically what DFM value-additions can Wellspring Technologies offer? |
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Validation of product geometry with material properties
Flow-facilitating product geometry designs Optimum choice of raw materials, additives, fillers, oxidizers, UV stabilizers to improve product functionality Validation of material flow across tooling constraints Optimized design process to achieve "zero defect" quality standards Optimized design process to achieve a target product cost with an in-built continuous improvement program Tooling designs optimized across target-cost, cycle-times, cutting-efficiency and finish-quality |
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Describe Wellspring's customer engagement model |
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| We presently follow a predominantly off-site outsourced business model. Which means we service your requirements from our engineering center in Bangalore, India. This model enables us to offer considerable economic advantage to our customers. Furthermore, to alleviate whatever barriers might exist due to geographic and time barriers, we are putting together certain Internet-based communication tools. | |
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What are these Internet-based collaboration tools? |
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| Wellspring software initiatives, designed to further improve our interaction with customers, particularly those separated from us by considerable geography and time. They are designed as server-centric, so that customer investments in hardware and software are minimal, if any. Talk to us for more information! | |
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Define an art-to-part service? |
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| The Wellspring team, in association with the TAFE production facility, have undertaken a number of customer projects encompassing reverse-engineering all the way through to tooling and actual production of engineering plastic components. We define this range of engineering as an art-to-part service. These exercise have repeatedly validated our DFM capabilities. | |
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What are the lines of manufacturing at the associated production facility? |
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| Injection-molded thermoplastics, injection molds, dies for pressure die-casting. | |
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What are the quality certifications of the tooling and production facilities? |
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Tooling: ISO-9001
Injection Molding: QS-9000, ISO-9002 Plant: UL-approved |
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Does Wellspring ONLY offer art-to-art services? |
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| No! While Wellspring is unique in it's ability to offer integrated engineering services all the way through to art-to-part, this does not represent the typical customer project. We mention this primarily as a certification of our DFM capability. Typical customer projects encompass the knowledge-intensive phases of our complete capability. | |
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What is your customer profile? |
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| Take a look at our Portfolio section. | |
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How do I get additional information? |
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Talk to us! We are available via email, phone, fax and person!
email: info@wellspring-tech.com phone: 91-80-558-6603, 91-80-558-6215 fax: 91-80-558-6214 address: 12, Raheja Chambers, Museum Road, Bangalore-560 001, INDIA |