Research & Development

Draxton NPDI is fully suited to meet the requirements of its customers in the automotive industry. With leading-edge capabilities in product development. This allows Draxton to be fully customer and product oriented.

Our engineering is directed towards product development from the prototype phase up to mass-production, and as such has specialized areas in each of the following phases:

DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING

Responsible for ensuring that the product specifications are fully met by our foundry processes → delivering functional and dimensionally sound product samples using rapid prototyping techniques.

INDUSTRIALIZATION ENGINEERING

Responsible for the construction of tools, machinery and control equipment necessary for the serial production of the product → Obtaining First Off Tool samples, prototypes and validation parts ahead of time to support our Customer´s try out and pre-production needs.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

Responsible for product manufacturing and maintenance of tools and machinery. → Mass Production.

Draxton R&D teams are strategically located in different sites for faster technologies enhancement, such sites are equipped with:

• CAD/CAM/CAE
• Magmasoft 3D Simulation
• Design for manufacturing
• Dynamic & Static simulation
• Solid R&D Centers & Universities network
• CREO Parametric
• Solid Works
• CATIA
• NX