• Manage the complete manufacture of your product
• Provide you with a completed, assembled product
• Decide on the most appropriate manufacture route
• Manufacture and source all parts
• Assemble all components
• Carry out relevant testing
• Obtain required certification e.g. EMC testing, CE Marking

Electronic Edge Design (EEDge) can develop your idea into a fully functioning product and bring it to manufacture. Getting a product design to market is a challenging and arduous journey, it can mean bringing together components and technologies from many different fields.

At EEDge we make it simple for you, we deal with the technicalities of product manufacture and let you focus your attention on your other challenges such as sales, marketing and building a brand.

If you have not already got a product design we can work from a problem or develop your idea or invention into a manufacturable, marketable product. We can develop prototypes for you to see and use for both testing and to get sales, before you incurr the costs of full scale production.

• Create complex forms
• High quality bends due to the matched tooling
• High volume production
• Relatively low unit cost for larger volumes

Metal stamping if the forming of sheet metal between matched tools to create a part. The process is carried out using a press (either hydraulic or a flypress). The die and punch are matched to create the shape of the component, they are therefore dedicated to the single operation they perform. In the blanking process, the metal is fed from large rolls which are uncoiled and flattened. The metal is then fed continuously into the blanking press which cuts out the flat form of the object.

From here the part may be deburred. Deburring is the finishing operation that removes the sharp edges and that occur naturally in metal stamping operations. Tumbling is a method of deburring in which unfinished components are placed a rotating barrel along with deburring materials. Complex parts may go through multiple operations to produce the required bent and shaped geometry.

• Directly transfer CAD data to the component
• Rapid and high precision results
• Automated processing

Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools from pre built instructions. The whole process of design to manufacture can now be carried out on a computer system, from computer aided design (CAD) to computer aided manufacture (CAM). CNC machining covers a whole range of processes uncluding lathe turning, milling, drilling, routing cutting out and engraving. It is used in many industries to machine all types of materials from metal and plastic to stone and wood.

Modern CNC machinery generally has 3 axis, X, Y (horizontal) and Z (vertical), although some machinery now operates with 5 axis. Tools are changed automatically by the machine within the process from a tool carousel which contains an array of tooling.

• Low tooling costs
• Cheap for prototypes and low volumes

Thermoforming is one of the most common methods of producting plastic components. Vacuum forming is a straightforward process and provides the foundation for the other thermoforming techniques. A sheet of material is heated to the point where it softens. The soft plastic sheet is blown into a bubble, which stretches it in a uniform manner. The airflow is then reversed and the mould is pushed up into the sheet. The plastic sheet is drawn onto the surface of the mould by vacuum.