Engineering and Product Development
Our company is fully equipped with the necessary tools to undertake product development, customer support and complete product development.
Andaltec offers its customers all the tools needed to develop their products through our Engineering department. We can act as consultants or assume the whole product development.
Our staff of over fifty engineers, technical engineers and design technicians is dedicated to assisting our clients in achieving their objectives.
The Engineering and R&D&I Projects departments work side by side to integrate all the development stages for products, from their conceptual design to their pre-industrialisation phase.
Definition of technical specifications for a new product: customer requirements, legal requirements, homologation or EC Market requirements…
Design risks analysis (FMEA of products and processes)
Conceptual and detailed design
CAD design of plastic and metal parts, using CATIA V5
Choice of materials and manufacturing technology
Estimation of production, product and tooling costs
Prototyping of mounted assemblies and plastic parts
Validation tests
Andaltec can offer a wide range of tools to optimise and validate product design, reducing every project’s development time, as well as prototype and non-quality costs.
- Mechanical Simulations. Static, dynamic, and impact analysis of the part under real-world stresses to verify product specifications, as well as geometry optimization analysis.
- Thermal Simulations. System analysis under defined thermal loads, temperature fields, and thermal resistance of system components.
- Condensation Simulations. Analysis of phase change from gas to liquid under defined thermal loads.
- SunBurn Simulations. Simulation of thermal load generated by solar influence on optical parts.
- Optical Simulations. Execution of simulations and optical designs.
In order to carry out the full development cycle for a product, we have simulation tools for the different plastic manufacturing processes.
- Injection. Simulation and analysis of the plastic injection process using MOLDFLOW. This tool allows the study of the injection process in its various configurations: Multiple injection, Sequential injection, Overmolding, Injection with pressure, etc.
- Extrusion. Continuous extrusion using HYPERXTRUDE software. Simulation of the material flow through the die, considering the interaction between the material and the machine to define the optimal transition profile.
- Stamping. Analysis of part deformation during stamping using HYPERFORM software. Evaluation of process and product feasibility based on the defined parameters to eliminate potential risks.
- Thermoforming process simulation using T-SIM. This tool predicts the mechanical behavior of the part during manufacturing, the final plastic wall thickness distribution based on specific processing parameters, and can predict image distortion/pre-distortion.
