Manufacturing involves a lot of challenges, especially in the space of parts and components production. Usually, designers manufacture a part using the DFM principle (Design for Manufacturing), although their dream to use the principle of DFF (Design for Function). The conventional technologies, at times, make it difficult (in fact, in many cases, impossible) to follow the DFF principle owing to challenges posed by material to cut, unavailability of high-productive tooling and process challenges.

Now, you have a one-stop solution that allows designers and engineers to follow their dream principle of DFF, thereby responding to the user-centric approach, and making products delight their end customers. It may be a material with complex alloy composition, or intricate profiles involving complex contours, but MIM (Metal Injection Molding) allows you to experiment with such challenges and solve them for you. At INDO-MIM, we work closely with designers and concept creators who have wonderful ideas in mind, to help them realize these dreams for real. We offer prototyping solutions as well as mass production process solutions, for our global customers. The applications we cater to, range from parts and sub-assemblies getting into small wearables and smartphones to large automotive and aircraft – in fact, the smallest part we have built is for a medical device that weighs less than 30 milligrams and is supplied in millions per month to an OEM customer in the USA.

Building parts to print after due diligence in form of DFM-discussions, is the approach followed at INDO-MIM, which enables complete transparency and alignment of understanding at both ends. This plays a vital role in accomplishing lead times given by our customers to us – in fact, in many cases, we have achieved ahead-of-time-schedule. All this happens as a result of a dedicated Engineering team at INDO-MIM and structured process flow, that has been practiced and fine-tuned for over two decades. The organization has to its credit 8500+ part varieties made since inception of the company in 1997 and has won more than 35 MPIF awards for design excellence for the component designs given to it by the global customers across diverse markets like automotive, defence, consumer, industrial, medical and aerospace. Diversity of markets is a key strength at INDO-MIM since this allows the engineers to witness unique challenges pertinent to specific customer segment, and makes them think out-of-the-box for solving problems at hand. Using a lean six-sigma approach at its state-of-the-art manufacturing plants, the team at INDO-MIM has been serving 650+ customers across the globe.

The manufacturing plants of INDO-MIM at India and USA, that are spread across one million square feet, have Industry 4.0 (IoT) being utilized amidst an automated plant that houses over 250 robots from leading manufacturers. The inhouse automation team has conceived and built peripheral automation systems as well as special purpose machines for every application and equipment at the plants, to ensure error-free manufacturing and quality assurance. The company has done pro-active investments in resources to enable high performance manufacturing that is a marvel to watch in person. Having built the world’s largest manufacturing facility for MIM, the company continues to expand its manufacturing footprint to cater to tailor-made needs of its global customers. This includes specific sub-assembly or post-MIM processing set-up as may be required by the customer, to ensure that the supply chain remains leaner.

Moving forward, the sales and marketing team of INDO-MIM has been focusing on structured research and study of various products and market segments, to analyse how could they be of service to the global industry. In its offering as a one-stop total solution provider, it has always invited customers and designers to share their challenges for open discussions and brainstorming so that collaborative solutions could be offered in a cost-effective manner. The final aim of INDO-MIM is to grow with its customers, and be a next-door neighbour supplier-partner, whom the customers can look upto, in moments of challenges and difficulties. The global customer support offices at various locations like USA, Europe and Asia allow the MIM technology to be taken to customer doorsteps. In addition, INDO-MIM participates in various exhibitions across the globe all through the year, where the customer representatives can walk-in to the stalls and see the MIM parts showcased along with MIM experts eager to discuss at the exhibition stalls. Additionally, INDO-MIM is also a participant at various global conferences to disseminate technical information about MIM and other technologies like additive manufacturing, ceramic injection molding, investment casting, etc.

Should you have any print to be studied or a challenge to be discussed, please connect with innovation@indo-mim.com or visit the website at www.indo-mim.com