Paragon and AMFG: Innovation and Automation in CNC Machining

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Paragon Rapid Technologies is a company renowned for its world-class engineering support, offering comprehensive services spanning the entire product development cycle. With over 15 years of experience, Paragon Rapid Technologies has been instrumental in assisting businesses across various industry sectors in achieving excellence. Partnered with AMFG (AMFG), Paragon Rapid Technologies excels in providing innovative solutions, from design to manufacturing, enabling clients to bring complex or simple concepts to life and maintain agile supply chains.

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“We provide world-class support throughout the product development cycle, from innovation to manufacturing. We help deliver millions of products to their intended markets – quickly and efficiently.” - Phill Adamson & Peter Humphrey – Founding Directors.

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CNC Contract Manufacturing of Component Parts

Paragon helps customers build supply chain stability and efficiencies with on-demand production and on-time delivery. Paragon’s manufacturing of CNC machined component parts offers OEMs and Tier 1s across all industry sectors opportunities for reducing production time and costs. Paragon also facilitates an inventory-on-demand strategy. CNC machining excels at producing a wide array of parts across diverse materials, ranging from metals to engineered foams. Importantly, it accomplishes this while preserving the integrity of these material properties. Contract manufacturing optimizes the supply chain by orchestrating a systematic sequence of activities, including material procurement and management, design support to ensure efficient manufacturing, capacity planning for machining to minimize lead times, oversight of specialized processes from finishing to accreditation, meticulous quality control and inspection, efficient inventory management tailored to demand, and exceptional customer service. All of these components are harmoniously aligned to revolve around a single product.

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Gauges, Jigs & Fixtures

Paragon specializes in the production of high-tolerance gauges, jigs, and fixtures. They maintain an in-house design and assembly process that strictly adheres to rigorous quality standards, ensuring the creation of durable and consistently high-quality components. Utilizing FAROArm technology, they conduct comprehensive validation reporting against the original parts, guaranteeing precision and accuracy. Paragon also offers expert design support, enabling them to meet tight deadlines while maintaining competitive pricing for machined components made from metal and high-density model board materials.In their manufacturing process, Paragon manufactures custom gauges, jigs, and fixtures tailored to individual designs. Expert machinists use a variety of materials, such as aluminum and high-density model boards, to craft each gauge element according to the specific requirements of their customers.After the machining phase, the gauges undergo preliminary assembly and thorough inspection. These inspections are carried out by qualified inspectors using FAROARM technology, ensuring a tolerance of 0.05mm across critical checking form elements. Once internal approvals are obtained, the gauges are equipped with reference plaques to establish their datum points, and 100% inspection reports are provided. Throughout this process, Paragon's design engineers collaborate closely with clients to finalize concepts within the framework of strict quality standards and tolerances.

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Cooling, Molds, and Dies

Tooling plays a vital role in product development and manufacturing processes, impacting factors like speed to market, product quality, repeatability, and precision. It is a critical component in achieving the desired outcomes for your component, prototype, or final product. Paragon prioritizes tooling solutions tailored to your needs, offering quick turnaround times and assistance in designing master tools.Paragon emphasizes tooling efficiency in reducing labor and quality costs while enhancing delivery speed. Their state-of-the-art 3-, 4-, and 5-axis CNC machines enable the company to produce a wide range of tools, including assembly tools, RIM tools, vac form mold tools, press tools, hammer form tools, and specialist molds and dies. They also specialize in mold modifications, ensuring that your tooling evolves to meet evolving requirements and expectations in the modern manufacturing environment.

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AMFG’s Best Use Cases

AMFG’s automation software has allowed Paragon to automate previously manual processes, thereby creating a seamless flow from RFQ to production. AMFG also enables the Paragon team to quickly identify and keep track of parts along each stage of production, further driving efficiency and productivity. The project and production teams are now able to use their time more effectively, with the time spent on generating quotations and processing files significantly reduced. This means that the Paragon team can provide enhanced customer service to its customers, whilst continuing to deliver the quickest possible turnaround times. And since Paragon offers traditional manufacturing services in addition to additive manufacturing, the company will be able to make use of AMFG’s Instant Quote tool. This will enable Paragon to quickly and accurately price parts produced from traditional production methods (such as CNC machining and sheet metal) in addition to additive manufacturing — all from the same platform.

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With our instant quotation tool from CAD files or drawings, we facilitate online orders and automate customer journeys. We allow customers to win more RFQs and generate more revenue! We enable our customers to automate and streamline their quoting process to drive revenue, cutting quoting times down to mere minutes. Our instant quote portal also gives the ability for customers to order parts and projects online 24/7. We also provide users with the ability to streamline their backend processes, including production planning.

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