Accelerate Product Development
Innovate designs quickly and get to market faster with rapid prototyping.
- Hybrid manufacturing allows for fast, high-fidelity prototyping in metal.
- 3D polymer printing is an excellent option for early-stage conceptional iterations.
What is Rapid Prototyping?
Rapid prototyping is a fast and cost-effective process for creating physical models from digital designs. It allows designers to quickly test, refine, and iterate on their ideas using technologies like additive manufacturing.
This process accelerates product development, reduces time to market, and enables better decision making through real-world testing and validation.
Prototyping with Metals
Advanced manufacturing provides rapid, high fidelity production-grade prototypes ready for testing and evaluation. Wire-laser hybrid manufacturing metal components allows for design flexibility; complex geometries and details that would be too difficult or expensive to achieve with traditional manufacturing methods are fast and efficient.
Hybrid manufacturing prototypes eliminates the need for extensive tooling changes, lowers development costs by minimizing material waste, and reduces the need for specialized or costly tooling. Faster iterations help identify and fix design flaws early on, reducing time to market.
Prototyping with Polymers
For early conceptual prototyping, 3D printing with polymers is fast and cost effective.
Depending on your requirements, prototypes can be printed with either commodity materials like PLA or a carbon fiber composite, or with high-temperature thermoplastics like PEEK.
