Blue Tip Tools: Faster from design to product
Blue Tip Tools is a start-up company focused on developing, manufacturing, and distributing quality products for the sealant industry. Given the company owner’s many years of experience in the sealant industry, the aim is to produce high-quality products targeted at the professional sealant application market.
The case: Overview and context
Blue Tip Tools has developed a set of sealant nozzles which, through optimisation of the geometric design of conventional straight nozzles combined with a unique plastic blend, has resulted in nozzles that are superior to what is otherwise available on the market. The next step in this development is to create sealant nozzles that meet some of the more specialised needs that arise in connection with sealant application. To minimise development time and limit costs for tooling changes, Blue Tip Tools has used Freeform Injection Molding to produce some early design and functional concepts-so as to reach more quickly the design used for the final product design from which tooling is made.
Results from programmes with Dansk AM Hub
- Reduced time consumption
- Reduced costs
- Opportunity for early design and functional concepts
Value and impact for the company
Blue Tip Tools needs to develop an entire portfolio of product variants so that, in the long term, they can serve their customers even better than they do today-and because there is a need to rethink how tooling for the sealant industry is designed. This is a major task for a start-up company, but Freeform Injection Molding enables them to arrive at the right designs more quickly, while minimising the risk of flawed tooling investments. It also makes it possible to test solutions that are more daring than one would normally allow, and to implement solutions that are extremely complex from a tooling perspective, yet can be produced relatively sensibly with Freeform Injection Molding.
Through a programme at Dansk AM Hub, Blue Tip Tools received support to develop a so-called angled nozzle via FIM. Before investing in an injection mould for mass production, they had prototypes produced in various designs in the materials the nozzle would have when marketed. In this way, the company was able to test ideas and ensure that the solution would hold up in practice.
About the company
Blue Tip Tools ApS
Location
Blokken 88, 3460 Birkerød
Number of employees
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Info
Blue Tip Tools manufactures blue custom sealant nozzles for a range of tasks where traditional sealant nozzles typically cannot be used.
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