Tools, guides, and checklists we've put together for sourcing engineers and product managers. Free to use, free to share. No email gate.
01 Guides & checklists
Wall thickness, draft, gating, ejection, and the seven other geometry choices that determine whether your part molds clean.
Five questions that narrow ten resin families to two candidates. With trade-off notes and typical applications.
Have these eight pieces of information ready before you send us a quote request. Saves a round of back-and-forth.
The five conditions where conversion delivers measurable returns, the trade-offs, and how to evaluate a candidate part.
Moving an existing tool to Modern Alpha? The documents, samples, and information we need to qualify it on day one.
How to keep equipment running when the original supplier closes. From sample to first parts in 8–14 weeks.
Resources to be uploaded post-launch. PDFs available on request via the Contact form in the meantime.
One business day for a complete RFQ with CAD and clear specifications. Two to three business days for complex parts requiring Moldflow analysis or material recommendations.
We don't enforce a hard MOQ. We've run lots of 250 and lots of 500,000. Tooling investment determines piece price, but small batches are part of what we do.
We oversee mold building through long-time partner mold makers. We handle tool maintenance, repair, and refurbishment in-house. The mold lives on our floor and the responsibility starts and stops with us.
Yes. Our quote intake screens for ITAR controls before drawings are routed. Confirm your registration status when you submit the quote. [Verify Modern Alpha's current ITAR registration with Anthony before publish.]
Yes. Mutual NDA available on request. Just check the box on the quote form, or send us yours.
Kansas City metro — Randolph, Missouri, ZIP 64161. Geographic center of US logistics, with truck, rail, and air shipping advantages to anywhere in the continental US.
STEP, IGES, STL, Parasolid (X_T), SolidWorks (SLDPRT), Inventor (IPT), AutoCAD (DWG, DXF), and PDF. If you have something else, send it — we'll figure it out.
Email us. If we can answer it in a one-page checklist, we’ll write the checklist.
