Rapid Prototyping Stages/Phases/Steps Required for 3D Printing services. FDM, SLS & SLA Electronics Development Industrial Design/Technical Design R&D Supplier service San Diego, California

1. - 1st & 2nd stage Product Development:
- Conceptualization
- Product/Industrial Design ready for manufacturing (CAD)
- Drawings
-Prototyping (Idea materialization/Proof of concept)
-Mechanical and Electronical Development
- Material analysis
- PCB Manufacturing
- New Product viability analysis (profitable)
-A/B Testing for functional prototyping
-1 fully Functional Prototype for marketing purposes (Video making, crowdfunding coaching,
etc.)
We can help a customer with the parametric drawing, not only cosmetic ones.
Parametric drawing programs (industrial design and able to manufacture it):
* Solidworks (We build the products with this software)
* Pro Engineer
*CATIA
*Autocad
Cosmetic Programs (Only useful to get the idea, as a mockup, not for industrial design or
manufacturing)
* Maya
* Autodesk 123D
* Corel
* Photoshop
* Sketch up
- Files we need in case that the customer already has the design:
* .XS
* .STEP
* .sld (.prt and .asm)
* IGES
Third phase:
- Low volume manufacturing (small batch)
- Manufacturing documentation
- Industrial design for low volume manufacturing
- Establish manufacturing processes
- Packaging
Last phase
- Mass manufacturing
- Manufacturing transferring
- Manufacturing documentation for large volumes
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