Techno Labo – Providing the world's most affordable quick plastic molds
■ We provide a fully integrated service—from design & engineering to mold making and small-lot production.
Techno-Labo offers an end-to-end service covering industrial design, mechanical engineering, mold fabrication, and volume production of plastic parts.
Over 80% of our clients cannot draft their own product drawings, and many do not have in-house engineers versed in plastic products. As shown below, “engineering” is not complete the moment design is done.
Continuous follow-through by engineers is required until the finished goods arrive. In many cases, projects stall because appropriate follow-through is missing.
■ Eliminating the hidden pitfalls you may not even notice.
There are many traps embedded in the manufacturing flow. People with little experience—and even some engineers—fall into them unknowingly. A number of inquiries we receive come only after problems have grown to the point of no return.
Originally, Techno-Labo worked in two domains: “design & product engineering” and “molds & production.” From experience, we realized the value of having engineers support the process all the way to the end of manufacturing.
We want our clients to share the joy of “making plastic products,” and we concluded that delivering an integrated service is essential.
At first glance we may look like a trading coordinator, but our services are all built around “engineering” and “molds.”
By sourcing sub-materials, producing/assembling parts, and proposing optimal processes—all filtered through an engineering lens—we can steadily move toward the goal: a reliable, manufacturable product.
We do not serve the high-volume divisions of major enterprises.
Such organizations can control their own engineering and optimize internally, so they typically do not need our support.
(We do receive requests for rapid molds only, but we generally decline these to keep capacity available for our core customers.)
Our advantage is maximized when you entrust us with the whole “shaping” process.
For small-lot production, consolidating at one place delivers bigger benefits.
You might think assigning each step to a specialized craftsperson yields a “better product.” However, for small lots, what matters most is “ensuring production actually happens and the product reaches the market.” To achieve that, balancing lead time, quality, and cost is critical.
As a springboard to mass production, we provide total productization support and break through barriers to the L/Q/C balance.
By overseeing and handling all related processes…
・Shorter lead time by cutting meetings with multiple vendors
・Right-sized quality by deeply understanding the product concept
・Lower total cost by preventing over-specs and consolidating management
are all achievable.
Why does integration reduce total cost? Because instead of splitting by process, we bundle overlapping items: design & engineering (including verification prototypes) and, at production, component costs—removing duplication.
Also, when we accept work purely as a “subcontractor,” designs tend to become over-specified to hedge returns/rework. Since Techno-Labo participates from the planning stage, we understand the product concept and required quality across all processes. By setting quality appropriate to the product’s use, we control costs.
Typically, plastic enclosure production/series build requires separate partners: “design studio,” “engineering office,” “prototype shop,” “mold maker,” “molding house,” and “assembly house.”
On top of that, you’ll find steps where it’s unclear who owns them: “quality management,” “resin selection & sourcing,” “color matching,” “accessory parts procurement & alignment,” etc. For example, allowable dimensional tolerance changes with each material. Unless someone captains the project, inconsistencies will emerge between vendors and between processes.
More vendors means more “ownerless tasks” and contradictions.
At Techno-Labo, we consistently manage and execute enclosure-related work, including sourcing. We adjust accessory parts by physical trial fit to ensure proper assembly. Furthermore, our in-house project manager backs up the team so each specialist can focus fully on their domain.
Thanks to these systems, we have a mechanism that reliably turns ideas into reality.
Our project manager orchestrates the specialists.
