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If you are working with automotive body panels, engine valve covers, aerospace components, electronic equipment, watercraft, sporting goods or any other goods made from thermoset reinforced plastics -

The Madison Group can help you:

  • Predict and optimize part performance under real-life operating loads.
  • Redesign parts for optimal stiffness with minimal shrinkage or warpage.
  • Model your compression molding process to determine optimum processing conditions.
  • Incorporate design changes very early in the development stage.

Still in the development stage?

Need to validate your design before production? Want to eliminate prototyping? Simulate the molding process before costly tooling by taking advantage of our plastics expertise, years of practical experience, and sophisticated analyses tools (including Cadpress®).

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Find answers to questions like:

  • Which structural properties would give this product optimum strength and stiffness?
  • Can we relocate or eliminate knitlines?
  • Is it possible to make the design and molding process faster, easier, more robust?
  • Will we experience convergent flows or other problems during filling?

"The Madison Group handles our new project flow analyses. We use them because they do such a large volume of modeling for a variety of industries, making them rather quick at it and rather proficeient. They completed a project that brought us major cost reductions."

Steve Crawford, Project Engineer for Engines, DaimlerChrysler


Has your mold already been designed and cut?

Our extensive knowledge of the complex phenomena surrounding flow, curing, orientation, and shrinkage and warpage of thermoset fiber-reinforced materials allows you to reduce changes on your final mold. We can help you resolve your problems very quickly.

The Madison Group can help you find out what's wrong - and how to make it right - when your parts:

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  • Don't have the expected structural properties
  • Are not performing as designed
  • Keep breaking
  • Have excessive shrinkage and warpage
  • Are not filling correctly
  • Show fiber damage during molding
  • Are damaged by excessive heating

The Madison Group • 5510 Nobel Dr. • Suite 215 • Madison, WI 53711 • (608) 231-1907 • (608) 231-2694 (fax)


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