
Plastic injection moulding order pin
Mail at your door – simple and convenient
Success Story
Starting point:
400,000 Swiss households now conduct their postal business conveniently at the front door with Swiss Post’s home service. You would like to further expand and facilitate this service. Digitally savvy customers can place their orders by smartphone or PC. In turn, customers who do not want digital services can use the order pen. This is not connected to the Internet, but it is highly innovative. With this choice, Swiss Post wants to respond to different customer needs.
Challenge:
Our main task was to technically implement an existing and specified housing design using plastic injection moulding. In addition, the very short time to market of just a few months was a major challenge.
Solution:
When we received more information about the final product after the kick-off meeting, it was clear to us that we could offer more than “just” manufacturing plastic injection-moulded parts. In addition to the injection-moulded housing itself, the housing had to be printed, the delivered electronics had to be assembled, the serial number and label had to be affixed, the function of the electronics had to be tested and finally the product had to be packaged.
Miromico was enthusiastic about our overall concept. The advantages were clear to them. They had only one contact person for the project. No tedious shipping to additional suppliers, which massively reduced turnaround time. In addition, by taking responsibility for the entire process, we were able to make further optimisations and thus reduce assembly time and costs. It was a win-win situation for all parties involved and so we were awarded the contract for the implementation. To facilitate the handling of the mail, we produced a suitable mass packagingsystem.
For series production, we developed a lean assembly workstation, which reduced assembly and lead time. This enabled us to deliver the large quantities on time. In addition, the assembly worker is supported by a collaborative robot.
What customers say about us
Phoenix Mecano Komponenten AG is an integral part of AIRICA's success story. With its broad spectrum of know-how in the field of plastic injection molding and cost-optimized assembly, Phoenix Mecano is a substantial extension in the value chain for AIRICA. Competences mixed with uncomplicated and trustful people make up Phoenix Mecano's DNA and we appreciate this very much.
Lukas Limacher, Co-Founder & CEO AIRICA AG
Phoenix Mecano supported our ideas and special requests and made the mass production and IoT sensor housing a top product. The overall solution was professional, on time and at a fair price.
Andreas Lehmann, Managing director, PortaNet AG
Reliable and competent partner for customised housing design and mass production of IoT sensor housings. Extremely competitive in terms of price. All our quality standards were met.
Dr. sc. ETH Schekeb Fateh, Strategic Business Development, Miromico AG
For over 20 years, Phoenix Mecano has been our strategic supplier for innovative housings of outstanding quality. With the final selection of the IoT housing, we were able to package our PCB in a cost-conscious way.
Daniel Roth, PI Electronics AG
Success Stories
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