In supporting early vendor involvement, PTA worked with Bleck Design to meet Network Engines' objectives for low cost bezels with exciting color options. When Network Engines achieved critical success in the Web Engine product launch, they contracted with PTA to deliver production ready parts within six weeks.

Network Engines provides high density, scalable Internet server appliances that support large web based applications for web providers. Their rack mounted 1U appliances offer numerous choices of hardware and software to address server, administration, and storage solutions so that e-businesses can quickly deliver high volumes of information.

• PTA proposed thermal assembly of all the bezel components via a single operation as a low cost method of production.
• Molds were built directly from ProE databases, incorporating complicated shapes throughout.
• With PTA's ability to run simultaneous operations, the aggressive delivery schedule was fulfilled. The four steel molds were completed while finishing operations, such as pad printing and thermal assembly, were refined. The finished parts were molded out of GE's Lexan® Polycarbonate.
• The Web Engine product family won the Bronze IDEA in the Industrial Design Excellence Awards Competition sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and Business Week magazine.