Quality
At Pliant Plastics, we aim to delight our customers by living a culture of execution that strives to achieve the highest standards in employee safety, part quality, and on-time delivery.
By continually challenging ourselves to achieve year over year improvement in our key performance metrics. This has resulted in a 40% reduction in Quality Incident Rate over the last 5 years.
Production Team Training Program
Our Technology
Vision Inspection Systems
- Built and integrated internally allowing us to react quickly to quality issues and roll out 100% inspection of parts
- Our vision allows us to stay on top of industry technologies, have access to the early development products, and be on the forefront of Keyence new product roll out
- We have reduced our quality incident rate each year from 2018 – 2020
- Pliant has reduced non-value-added sort hours by 84% from 2018-2020
- 100% inspection of every part by end of 2021
Nikon Altera Bridge Style CMM with Polyworks 2020 Inspector Premium (1200mm x 1000mm x 800mm bed size)
- High precision 3-dimensional inspection to CAD models accurate to within 1.8µm + L/400
- Motorized multi-axis PH10 probe head with ruby tips as small as 1.0mm
Nikon MCAx 2.5m Scanning Arm with Polyworks 2020 Modeler Premium
- Portable, 7 axis, high precision, noncontact, low noise blue laser scanner accurate to within 0.032mm on multiple materials
- Tactile probing ability accurate to within 0.027mm
- Mesh and overlay of scanned image to CAD model with “temperature” mapping capabilities
- CAD model generation of scanned image for reverse engineering
Keyence Instant Measurement System (200mm x 50mm x 75mm)
- Solid State 2D image dimensional measurement system traceable to NIST
- Automatic recognition of position and orientation
- Measurement repeatability to within 2µm
Other Technologies
- QVI Sprint Video Measuring Machine with Measure X metrology software (up to 18” x 18” x 6”)
– 3 axis fully automatic dimensional measuring system - Starrett L1 load cell – 500lb working load with charting capabilities
– Computer based force testing solution that can be used to calculate tensile, yield, and compression loads
– Sample rates up to 1000 Hz and graphical display capabilities - X-Rite SP62 Color Spectrophotometer / Macbeth Color Booth
- Novo Gloss Meter (13mm x 70mm min target area)
- Moisture Analyzers (Ametek Max 4000 / Mettler Toledo HX204)
Our Quality Certifications
IATF 16949 Certificate
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ISO 9001 Certificate
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