Answers you can take into a design review.
ChatETS cites the source behind every claim, the calculators run on your own numbers, and a senior engineer is one email away when the part is unusual.
See how ChatETS works →Industries we serve
Every market fears a different failure. We’ve seen all of them.
Automotive is ETS’s biggest market, not its boundary. The failure modes, materials and quality bars change by industry; the discipline of designing plastic parts that don’t fail travels. Find yours below.
Choose your market
Same memory. Different fear.
Each page translates 41 years of practice into the specific problems your teams face, the programs you run and the services that fit.
Passenger-car OEM
Lightweighting that survives every powertrain.
ICE, hybrid, EREV and BEV program support, from four decades inside OEM programs.
Explore → Commercial truck & engineMillion-mile duty, whatever’s under the hood.
High-heat underhood materials, durability, weight and aero for truck and engine OEMs.
Explore → Tier-1 suppliersThe most exciting words in PPAP: “nothing happened.”
Cost-down, tooling-risk reduction and launch discipline for the supplier engineering organization.
Explore → Connector & harnessClick, seal, and never creep.
Miniaturized high-temperature housings, HVIL and seals for connector and harness Tier-1s.
Explore → Medical devicesDesigned to never have a story.
Material selection, sterilization compatibility, design review and failure analysis for device OEMs.
Explore → Industrial & off-highwayMud, sun, fuel and 10,000 hours.
Harsh-environment durability for agricultural, construction and powersports equipment.
Explore → Resin & materials suppliersGet your resin spec’d in, and keep it there.
Application development and failure forensics that win OEM material approvals.
Explore → High-volume moldersFewer short shots. Less scrap. Faster cycles.
Process-excellence engineering for independent molders.
Explore →How we help every market
Five tools. Any industry.
The same ETS discipline, applied where your market needs it most.
DR
Design review & DFM
Catch manufacturability issues before tooling: the fastest way to protect margin and launch dates.
From $3,500 MSMaterial selection
Resin chosen for your environment, process and cost target, against your real failure modes.
Practice areas FAFailure analysis
Root cause: material, design or process, and the training to stop it recurring.
Failure analysis TRSeminar & in-plant training
Three-day seminar and on-site programs. 1,300+ slides, 21 case histories.
Seminars AIChatETS
The plastics answer engine, free to start. Ask the question blocking your design today.
Try it free RTRetainers
A principal engineer on call for your programs, with guaranteed response times.
From $15K/moBuilt for the people who decide
Eight industries. The same four desks.
Whatever the market, a plastic-part decision passes a design engineer, a manager, sometimes counsel, and always procurement. Here is what ETS gives each of them.
Risk you can put a number on.
A fixed-price pre-tooling review starts at $3,500. One line of the failure ledger costs $10K–$75K once steel is cut. Seats, training and engineering hours can share a single annual agreement.
What a review covers →An expert built for cross-examination.
Fellow of SPE and author of the field’s standard text. Expert-witness work since 1997. A conflict check comes first, and availability, a CV and fees follow within one business day.
Request a conflict check →Simple to buy, easy to audit.
Pay by check, ACH, purchase order or card. Fixed price where applicable, with scope, timeline and quote agreed before work begins, and an NDA signed on request before we see anything.
Start the paperwork →Next step
Not sure which market applies to you?
Tell us what you make and where it fails. A senior engineer replies within one business day with the fit and a scoped next step.
- NDA on request
- Senior engineer replies in one business day
- Fixed price where applicable
- Your data stays yours