Omega Tool Corporation
Providing excellent tools and molds for the plastics industry, Omega Tool Corp. is devoted to the highest standards of quality in its field. As a supplier to automotive parts manufacturers, the company is ideally located at the hub of the North American automobile industry, in Oldcastle, Ontario, near Windsor and Detroit.
Omega is committed to its customers and to the efficient transformation of mold design concepts into reality. Equipped with innovative, high-tech equipment strictly maintained and operated by a skilled workforce, Omega combines state-of-the-art machines with a wealth of knowledge in order to rapidly bring a client's project to realization.
The company's quality-driven approach has been the hallmark of Omega's success and has resulted in continual expansion of its facility and its workforce since the very beginning. Omega's founding in l98l was based on more than two decades of strategic managerial achievement and technological expertise in the mold building industry.
Located at its current three-acre site since its establishment, Omega began with an 8000 square foot building and a number of conventional machine tools. All along, the company demonstrated a steady pattern of growth year after year. Since 1987, annual sales have increased approximately 12 per cent each year.
In l986, Omega obtained its first Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine, launching the company on a path of rising technology and efficiency. Because the CNC equipment proved its value by demonstrating improvements in capability, Omega Tool now possesses a vast and varying inventory of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) directed CNC machine tools of all sizes and functions.
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" Omega's success can be summed up in one word -- TECHNOLOGY.
We have always stayed up-to-date with the most current machine tools and the computerized controllers, which have increased machining rates. Our workforce is increasingly experienced in technology, and with greater experience, elevated efficiency results by utilizing CAM software to its full capability." Dave Cecchin, |
The success standards of the tooling industry as a whole have raised due to technological improvements and accelerated efficiency levels to maximize accuracy and productivity. Omega Tool has capitalized on this pattern, from the utilization of highly sophisticated equipment to its notably distinct technological advancements, which resulted in precise machinery and continual equipment updating.
By combining the latest in technology with a logical and purpose-oriented shop, computerized control assures product specifications and production techniques for every Omega-built product. Computers are used in virtually all aspects of the mold making operation: for generating CAM programs, mold and product design, drafting, solid modeling, flow and finite element analyses, cutter path verification and digitizing.
From the company's founding, the vast majority of tools and molds produced by Omega Tool have been destined principally for the automotive industry both for the big three domestic North American automobile producers and for offshore manufacturers with a significant portion dedicated to consumer and construction housing products. Omega is capable of supplying tools and molds for any plastic component in a vehicle. Specialty products include steering wheels, front and rear bumper fascias, exterior body cladding, door panels, fenders, wheel-house liners, front grilles, interior trim, interior door panels, rocker panels and ductwork.
Omega Tool Corp. offers total customer involvement and technical assistance to ensure consistent, cost-efficient molding throughout the life of every tool manufactured. mold performance is evaluated by simulating actual production conditions in Omega Tool's mold forming and spotting presses, ensuring the delivery of molds that enable customers to produce superior products. Furthermore, all molds and tools undergo final testing at the client's factory in actual production settings.
To provide a continual supply of skilled employees, Omega Tool has initiated a number of innovative training avenues. Firstly, personnel are continuously being trained directly in-house with specific hands-on training. Secondly, the company hires graduates from the area community college to train them as apprentices. Thirdly, there is an apprentice style program for young people from high school, who work during the day and study at night school.
With 100,000 square feet of facilities and 140 employees today, Omega Tool Corp. has grown to meet the changing needs of its customers, as it continues to transform mold concepts into productive reality through the latest in Omega technology, skillfully handled by Omega professionals.