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How Industrial Design Engineering During Production Can Improve Your Final Product

Industrial design engineering being applied during live production

 

As meticulous as your design teams were during the development and testing of your product, there is still work to be done. Your production team will need to continue monitoring products during the manufacturing process. This is where industrial design engineering can have its greatest impact—helping you to ensure the utmost quality and integrity for your product.

Understanding How Industrial Design Engineering Works

Although on the surface a broad term, industrial design engineering can be broken down into several elements. These will apply to all stages of the product development lifecycle but will do so differently than during the actual production stage. Below are a few examples of what these tasks are, and how they apply to the production stage of a product’s lifecycle.

Industrial design engineering being applied during live production

CAD Tools

The advantage of CAD software is the ability to make design changes whenever necessary. This advantage gains teeth when a product is in the manufacturing stage, as production defects can be quickly redesigned and tested without having to go through the full prototyping process. The finalized changes can then be quickly sent digitally to production management teams.

Quality Control

Defects noticed during and post-production requires the eye of an expert to fully diagnose and make an informed diagnosis of the issue. Having a team of experienced quality design engineers on hand will allow you to quickly make these tough decisions with the necessary confidence and accuracy, minimizing the impact of related manufacturing delays.

Create a Rapid Response Playbook

Otherwise known as quality assurance, this well-defined set of quality and production guidelines will keep your lines moving. The systemic functionality of a comprehensive quality assurance plan minimizes risk through planned auditing tasks that adhere to strict guidelines. This also reduces delays in getting the right people on the right task for faster resolution.

Letting the Industrial Design Team Drive Production

As the above demonstrates, putting your industrial design team on point to drive production is an effective strategy. Having proven quality assurance and control processes in their pockets and the innovative CAD tools at their fingertips, a team of industrial design engineers can efficiently drive production with a minimum of risk.

Validate Trueness to Design

The best way to resolve an issue is to prevent it from ever happening. The industrial design engineer accomplishes this during manufacturing by evaluating all aspects of production, from the proper calibration of production machinery to finely detailed measurement comparisons of final production items and physical prototype models.

Provide Rapid Response Engineering Tasks

When a problem is identified, the last thing you want to do is to hold countless meetings to determine an appropriate response. Placing an industrial design engineer at the head of the table will bring a fully scripted, largely automated response that can appropriately resolve almost any issue that arises during production. This minimizes downtime and ensures consistent product quality.

Supervise the Entirety of the Production

While seemingly outside of the technical expertise of an engineer, it will be these analytical viewpoints that can add better efficiency to production. Giving your design engineering team the ability to monitor all aspects of the manufacturing process will allow them to make proactive changes. For example, they may see that a CNC machine may need to be calibrated more frequently, or recommend that its technician has been given additional training.

Building Brand Identity Through Industrial Design Actions

One of the most understated and often misunderstood attributes of industrial design engineering is its ability to create the brand identity of the product. The industrial design engineer typically is involved from the conceptual design of a product’s features and functionalities right on down to the nuances of appearances and tactile responses. Their high level of involvement throughout the various product design stages is perfect for helping to drive its identity in the marketplace.

The contribution made to the marketability of the final product is fairly simple to describe. The attributes that are integrated into the final design will have stemmed from a noted shortfall or gap in the marketplace. This means that a known potential customer base exists, and the features you are presenting are already geared towards catching the attention of this audience to help them solve a problem.

With the product performance already setting itself up for marketing success, the focus turns towards aesthetics, usability, and support. The most effective industrial design engineer will be able to build a product with all three of these in mind. They must also be able to translate tech-speak into documentation that is easily understood by the product’s audience and general laypeople. It is through these basics that a product’s course and success are largely determined.

Outsourcing An Industrial Design Engineering Team Will Yield Efficiencies

The improvements in efficiency and the promise of lowered risk are enough to convince most product teams that an industrial design engineering team is a necessity. But instead of planning for an increased staffing budget and talent recruitment, turn instead to a manufacturing partner that offers engineers as a part of one-stop product development and manufacturing shop.

Pacific Research Laboratories has a variety of talented and experienced engineers to offer for supplementing your product development team. Our team of experts is well-versed in all areas of the manufacturing process, from design to final production, and we specialize in machining and molding small plastic parts. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.
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What Is Value Added Engineering and How Does It Benefit Product Development?

A team demonstrating value added engineering in action.

Value added engineering is a broad term used to describe design options at the start of the new product development process. This method of engineering is meant to introduce a fresh set of eyes to an existing problem and to apply the most efficient solutions possible through the use of applicable pieces from other projects. The use of proven designs and parts to solve issues encountered during the product development process can have a positive impact on costs, timelines, and functionality.

How Does Value Added Engineering Contribute to Product Development?

Ideally, value added engineering is used during the beginning stages of a project to make certain determinations that lead to a design standing out from competing products. This focus:

  • Compares product functionality to its anticipated production costs
  • Takes an in-depth look into the materials and tools being used to provide the ideal spectrum of product features
  • Helps obtain a clearer sense of the viability and profitability of a project

The resulting gains of using value added engineering come about through a process which allows a project team to blend innovative technology into proven product designs. Doing so breathes new life into stalled or seemingly stale project ideas. This is accomplished by addressing common project pain points through the leveraging of lessons learned and process enhancements gleaned from existing product lines, leading to rapid improvements in production processes.

A team demonstrating value added engineering in action.

Identify Pain Points Through Production Analysis

It is always tempting to push through project issues with the intention of resolving issues down the road in an effort to remain aligned to an established timeline. Unfortunately, this far too common approach can lead to inferior products or have the opposite effect on a project timeline. The first part of value added engineering—the identification of pain points through analysis— ensures that all efforts within a project from start to finish are painstakingly detailed and designed with precision. The process looks like this:

  1. The initial concept is compared to similar project efforts as the engineering team seeks simple ways to use established parts and processes for the new design. 
  2. Then, your team develops a strategy to implement the new with the old; even to the point of using parts from existing products as is or with slight modifications within the new product. 
  3. This results in a seamless pairing of known production factors and processes with new, innovative wrinkles to maximize performance and cost-effectiveness.

Implement Changes Into the Design

Having a complete analysis in hand provides a project team with the necessary facts which supply the required design changes. But knowing the full weight that any one of these changes can have on a product is a little more difficult to forecast. Because of this, there may exist some critical design or performance gaps within the project—gaps that can lead to costly overruns or functional mistakes that can threaten the impact of your product on the market.

This is where the experience of an expert manufacturing consultant can be invaluable to a project initiative. They will lend the experience of past engagements to your project team, and work alongside them in a collaborative effort to implement the most crucial and necessary changes into the design. Doing so reduces potential waste points that can further impede the progress of product development instead of lending to its efficiency or a rapid development strategy.

Cost Reduction Through Efficiency

The addition of proven production methods and completing the design puzzle using proven part or system pieces is what ultimately drives cost reductions. Instead of building everything from the ground up, it becomes a matter of adding proven technology and system designs to the design concept to round out the functionality of a product. This hastens the pace of product development, which is only the start of the resulting cost reductions.

The use of established technology within an innovative new product saves time and money, from design and testing and through manufacturing. An engineering consultant will be able to further drive these cost reductions thanks to the volumes of technical resources they have accumulated from previous engagements. This blend of expertise, established best-practice processes, and supplemental technical staff will help your project get to the finish line faster and under budget.

Evaluation and Adjustment Must Follow a Precise Script

As wonderful as it would be to achieve perfection immediately, it is likely that some adjustments will need to be made to your product. Whether it is a flaw uncovered in a prototype, or a color scheme that doesn’t pass muster with your marketing team, you will want to have the ability to make an adjustment rapidly and at a minimum investment of costs and time. The processes used in discovery, remediation, and the execution of both, are of vital importance to minimize risks.

The most effective methodology to adopt for maintaining vigilance over your creation is to create and execute a set of repetitive scripted tasks. The ability to build and utilize a script that provides an efficient way to execute a consistent cycle of evaluation and adjustments becomes even better with the input from an experienced partner. Your partner will have likely been there before, so why not use what they can bring to the table to reduce costs and risks in producing your vision?

Value Added Engineering Gives You a Powerful Partner

Using value added engineering helps your project team compare product functionality to cost of production. From here, you can leverage proven design and production strategies to reduce risks and costs, while adding known components into your innovative design will cut timelines, giving you a powerful partner as you drive your project forward.

Our engineers at Pacific Research Laboratories take the time to learn the multiple paths your product initiative could travel. From here, we work with your team to develop the technical aspects and to build accurate cost and production schedule aspects so no stone is left unturned. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.
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Rapid Prototyping Design Requirements: Top Questions Answered

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Entering the world of rapid prototyping often invokes more questions than it seems to answer. Aligning your product design process to the strengths of rapid prototyping design to get a better product to market faster does not necessarily mean that you must reinvent the wheel. By developing an understanding through the review of the most common questions asked of manufacturing consultants, you will be in a better position to leverage rapid prototyping for your project initiatives.

What Does the Term Rapid Prototyping Mean?

Rapid prototyping is a term that is used to describe a design process that is built with the goal of getting a product ready for manufacturing—fast. This involves more than just creating a prototype of a design to ensure that it is ready for the public; it is, in fact, a larger container for a variety of design tasks that ensure quality and consistency is maintained throughout the process. It is expected that by the end of the project you will have a prototype that can be used for testing or demonstration.

Typically, rapid prototypes are created using a process called additive manufacturing. This is a process in which a product is created, layer by layer, using the design specifications from a CAD design. CNC rapid prototyping can also be employed, which allows for a more realistic representation of the product, both in terms of overall functionality and the use of the actual materials to be used in the final product.

How Can My Design Project Benefit from Using Rapid Prototyping?

Example of rapid prototyping design in action

Using rapid prototyping in your projects will present you with a number of benefits, all of which stem from the proactive controls built into each task. It is these controls that make the speedy creation of high-quality products possible through the use of consistency in tasks, review points, and a deeper involvement of project teams, providing deeper levels of precision at all stages of the project. This high level of collaboration means that most defects are caught early, further saving time and cutting costs.

The early establishment of product design specifics, as well as the ability to make digital alterations quicker means that the first prototypes are more likely to be the only ones needed. Getting it right the first time further contributes to cost and time savings, and gives you a perfected model of your product that can be tested, or used as a presentation tool in front of customers or investors. Also, this adds another dimension to a patent application as well, improving its chances for approval.

Are There Specific Methods Used in Rapid Prototyping?

Although 3D-printing is commonly associated with the rapid prototyping design process, several strong choices are available:

  • 3D-Printing. This additive prototyping process relies on sending a design into a computer-connected printing device to build the product one layer at a time. Most easily meltable materials can be used in this process, including plastic, epoxy, and even wax.
  • CNC Machining. Like 3D-printing, CNC machining relies on sending computer-generated instructions into the tools building the prototype. The differences come in two parts. First, CNC machining can use the same materials as the final product, such as metals. Second, CNC machined prototypes can be almost as good as the products rolling off of the line.
  • Molding and Casting. This process can incorporate elements of the previous two processes. Molds and casts can be cut and shaped using CNC machining. Then, these casts and molds can have layers of melted materials to create a solid part. This process typically uses urethane or silicon-based materials.

Although other rapid prototyping methods, such as powder bed fusions, do exist, these are the most common examples of processes used to build rapid prototypes. Each of these methods come with their own set of pros and cons, as well as their own best-suited set of applications.

Where in Rapid Prototyping Does Prototype Fidelity Play a Role?

Determining the fidelity in your prototype simply means that you are choosing just how accurate your model is to the final product. For example, if you were building a solar-powered lawnmower engine, your best prototyping choice would be to use a CNC machined prototype. However, for that innovative twist on left-handed scissors, 3D-printing would be a perfect choice. The levels of fidelity available to a rapid prototype model are low, medium, and high.

Describing these is fairly intuitive, with low fidelity products being rough caricatures of the final product, and high fidelity prototypes being nearly identical to the final product. It is a common practice to choose a combination of these three to develop a prototype, as you may only need one portion of the product to be a high fidelity representation, with the rest of the product built using medium or low fidelity.

Do I Need a Consultant to Help With My Rapid Prototyping Design?

Designing a product, from the birth of the idea through the completion of testing, involves a number of key pillars within the rapid prototyping process. Starting off on the right foot is critical from the start, as is building a concise set of controls and knowing what digital fabrication tools or methods are needed to get your rapid prototyping strategy off the ground. When choosing the best rapid prototyping design strategy for your project, reaching out to an experienced manufacturing consultant will get you started on the right path.

Need more answers to your rapid prototyping design questions? The engineers and design consultants at Pacific Research Laboratories work with clients to develop a rapid prototyping strategy that fits your project perfectly. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.
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Lean Manufacturing Tips for Solving Manufacturing Challenges

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The development of manufacturing strategies that ingrain quality and speed each step of the way is driven by customers and their needs. Lean manufacturing gives producers of goods a proven strategy to satiate customer demands while protecting themselves from cost overruns or production delays. These pillars of manufacturing success are only achievable using proven lean manufacturing tips that have emerged over the past decade.

Solving manufacturing challenges for smaller run production facilities doesn’t have to mean stretching already-thin budgets. The creation of a lean production blueprint that contains the most common principles of lean manufacturing can become a powerful tool, helping to maintain product quality while reducing wasteful operational steps. Applying these core principles to your design and production processes will enable you to go toe-to-toe with larger, more established competitors.

Solve Performance Tracking Issues Through Modernized Metrics and Objectives

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How do you know there is a problem if no one tells you that there is a problem? This has been a question asked by manufacturers for decades, and yet no one seems to have a conclusive answer. Fortunately, there are ways to gain the kinds of valuable insights needed to make the appropriate changes that can help you avoid wasteful practices like production idle time or ineffective quality control standards.

First, ask yourself what your objectives are; for example, what are you trying to accomplish in production? Using production pilots is an accepted lean manufacturing method used to accurately establish objectives and goals. Pilots allow you to isolate consistent behaviors in production and to weigh these against notable areas of improvement. 

You can then use these manufacturing results as baselines for measuring goals and for the establishment of metrics. You’ll next need to examine how you are measuring and tracking metrics. Metrics give you accountability and visibility into each process and task from start to finish. Although the field of metrics can vary wildly, some notable ones to include in your measurements are:

  • Labor hours per production unit
  • Cost of quality
  • Supplier defect rate
  • First Pass Yield
  • Customer complaints and service requests

These work together to provide you with a winning combination of realistic production targets and powerful tools to properly measure the success of each production run. Building these items will help you to recognize potential defects, areas that need to be targeted for a redesign, and even if your product would be better served by outsourcing all or part of your project to an experienced manufacturing consultant.

Create Consistent Design and Production Tasks

Nothing will derail a project faster than having a lack of consistency lead to severe flaws or missed production timelines. Standards are established because of their ability to define a precise list of tasks that are vital for driving projects forward. Standards are a critical component of lean manufacturing, as they govern task hand-offs, establish measurements used to define success, and set the proper configuration for timelines.

Having a consistent playbook for the product design process, from the earliest brainstorming session to the end of the production line, keeps things on track. Lean production becomes viable, as the integration of well-defined metrics and objectives work with clear-cut standards to make cost overruns and production delays things of the past. The process of getting a product out of a CAD design and putting it onto a delivery truck happens faster and with better quality.

Aligning design and production tasks through the use of a set of agile manufacturing standards can be accomplished by keeping your focus on these few areas:

  • Define tasks that are smaller in ambition and thus can be executed with greater focus and attention to detail. This has the benefit of eliminating unnecessary or redundant steps within larger tasks.
  • Establish continuous monitoring of metrics and timelines to keep tabs on everything in real-time.
  • Use the results of your monitoring to make proactive changes that introduce gains in quality and production speed.
  • Hold a regular review of how project members, from the design team to the line worker, are trained and held accountable to meet your defined lean manufacturing criteria for success.
  • Add automation into any processes possible.

These are just a handful of ways in which your project team can realize the maximum potential of the lean manufacturing controls you put into effect. These will help you to achieve a nonstop cycle of checks and balances that places you on the path of continuous process improvement. Properly executing all of this will yield a solid framework for a lean manufacturing strategy that will evolve alongside your products and processes.

A Manufacturing Partner Will Provide Additional Lean Manufacturing Tips

Lean manufacturing is a set of methods that are focused on the maximization of manufacturing production while minimizing costly practices. Although this can mean different things to different manufacturers, the goal remains the same regardless of the production setting or the product. On-boarding an experienced manufacturing consultant will help you to determine which lean manufacturing tips best apply to your situation, and which you can confidently take a pass on.

Do you need your questions answered about which lean manufacturing principle applies best to your situation? The experienced engineers at Pacific Research Laboratories are standing by to do that and more for your manufacturing project. From design and development through prototyping and manufacturing, we are here to help you bring your products to market. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.
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4 Advantages of Composite Materials for Final Production

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Composite materials are present in almost every item we use today. From the shoes and clothing we wear to the gym, to the cars and bikes we ride. Our lives would be significantly different without the presence of composite materials. The cutting-edge engineering processes that stem from the innovative blending of multiple materials and chemical compounds into the final product results in five significant advantages that give composites a permanent place in today’s manufacturing.

#1 Strength Without the Weight

Composites have a well-earned reputation for being lightweight and robust, making them ideal materials to be used in multiple ways. Developing an understanding of the various strength aspects within a composite will help you choose your project better. Some of these aspects include:

  • The high comprehensive strength of composites, which measures material performance when under pressure, gives these materials a natural edge. However, this also means that matching the right composite material to your product specs is crucial.
  • Shear strength, or how resilient material is to shifting layers, indicates overall weight load. A composite can be designed to control shear properties in many ways without adding weight to the material, resulting in additional product strength.
  • Specific strength, the measurement of a material’s strength-to-weight ratio, tells you just how capable a material is. Composites are at the higher end of these ratio numbers.
  • Tensile strength is how much stress a material can undergo before failing. Although composites are typically twice as strong as non-composites, this is vital to consider when selecting the right composites for your project.

The above attributes of composites give you a more comprehensive range of material choices that will endure far longer than non-composites. And although these can be used in an almost endless amount of manufacturing applications, each composite will have its pluses and minuses and may require the guidance of an outside consultant to select the best mix of strength and durability for your specific application.

#2 Resistance to External Elements and Environmental Factors

measuring composite materials

Material degradation is an important area when trying to build a superior product. Composites can be designed to resist multiple environmental factors or exposure to chemical elements that would cause seemingly strong materials such as steel to disintegrate. Some of the most notable external causes of material breakdown that a correctly designed composite can resist are:

  • Chemical resistances to items known to cause deterioration, such as paints, adhesives, or exposure to daily chemical elements, leads to reduced maintenance and adds to the product’s lifespan.
  • Improved thermal properties, such as long-term exposure to U.V. rays, higher melting points, or holding strength in frigid temperatures or broad temperature shifts.
  • Composites bring improved resilience to regular usage wear and tear and will hold up better when placed under sudden, unexpected stresses.

The improved resistance to both anticipated and unexpected exposures to chemical agents or extreme temperature shifts is one of the most sought after advantages of composite materials. These serve to give composite materials improved versatility in any application.

#3 Durability Equals Reliability

Manufacturers value composite materials for their fortitude. A reliable product aids in building a strong reputation and an equally strong customer base. The high durability among composites reduces wear and tear maintenance and significantly reduces the risk of unexpected product failure.

The attributes of composite materials, as discussed above, helps designers build products that are resistant to weather or material fatigue caused by long-term stress or heavy usage. However, obtaining the knowledge and specifications of all possible composite materials that could apply to your project requires expertise. Utilizing a manufacturing consultant will free you from those concerns to focus on building the perfectly designed product.

#4 Composites Add Enhanced Design Flexibility

To say that composites provide a high degree of design flexibility would be a disservice to composites. One of the most significant advantages of using composites is their application to a  limitless assortment of products. Product designers aren’t limited by the composites’ structural specifications, which can be molded and redesigned to create the perfect mixture of materials to make any project possible.

A design team can expand the breadth of their visions to include complex shapes and contours. Aesthetically pleasing, eye-catching products will endure the test of time and the customer’s regular use and are both cost-effective and straightforward. The use of powerful CAD tools and low-cost and production-ready prototypes allow for practical testing and accelerates the speed to market.

Use the Advantages of Composite Materials in Your Projects

The overall attributes of composite materials result in greater design freedom and high-quality products. When properly designed and used, composites accelerate prototyping phases and production runs. With these advantages in place, you can achieve significant cost savings in production and post-production while still building affordable, durable products. An experienced manufacturing consultant can help you choose the right composite materials for your next project.

Determining the most effective use of composite materials in your projects starts with understanding what they bring to the production table. The product design experts at Pacific Research Laboratories will thoroughly examine your design. They will guide you through your composite material choices to help you create an ideal production model. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.
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Digital Fabrication Process: Tools to Get You to Your Final Product

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Leveraging efficiency gains of the digital fabrication process brings some exciting and game-changing benefits to manufacturing. This computer-driven manufacturing process introduces higher accuracy levels in production and gives businesses a keener eye for quality controls. Products created using digital fabrication use three procedural classifications: additive, formative, and subtractive.

The process that drives your project to completion is consistent regardless of the chosen manufacturing method, meaning tools for each step in the digital fabrication process will also be consistent. The compatibility of tools and procedures allows you to develop a production strategy that can be effectively applied to all of your projects with little or no modification, allowing you to develop and manufacture high-quality items quickly.

Design Tools to Drive Your Digital Fabrication Process

You cannot start the digital fabrication process without first developing inclusive and efficient design procedures. A successful design stage will involve performing several fundamental tasks that must be well-thought-out to ensure the remaining steps’ success. At the core of your design strategy, these tasks must include:

  • Brainstorming design includes all stakeholders, especially engineers, CAD designers, sales teams, and product management teams
  • Encouraging an open forum when it comes to product feedback throughout the design stage
  • Choosing the right tools to create virtual representations and measurements of the product
  • Ensuring those tools can also be used for any future product development projects

The tools required to drive the design activities for digital fabrication revolve around the CAD drafting software you select. The most effective CAD drafting tool will provide the ability to test complex calculations in a virtualized environment, streamlining the next two steps in the digital fabrication process. A powerful CAD drafting toolset will also present you with the ability to create design templates and in-program design management to reduce errors and time.

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Prepare Your Product for Prototyping and Validation

With a precise virtual model of the product completed, you can focus on making a physical representation of your design. Creating a prototype of your design brings digital testing and validation to life. It presents customers with something that can be touched and interacted with to improve their feedback quality. This extra layer of scrutiny in the development process shortens the testing time and lowers overall design costs.

The tools required to accomplish this takes on an additional physical form through the use of necessary machinery and materials to build a rapid prototype. Digital renderings of the product and selection of materials will help your project team determine the most effective way to generate a physical prototype. In digital fabrication, the most common of these options will be through the subtractive CNC machining technique or the additive methodology of 3D-printing.

These options will give the same CAD software used in the first step of the process a new vital role. The ability to send a design directly to the manufacturing output method of choice via CAM data, and with very little need for human interaction, presents you with an almost “set it and forget it” approach when creating a prototype. Blending digital fabrication production tools with CAD technologies will have you ready to move into full-scale production faster.

Using Your Digital Tools to Ramp Up Production

The last stage of the digital fabrication process is suited to outsourcing to an experienced manufacturing partner. Taking this approach helps you avoid the common mistakes of scaling up production before there is a demand for the product or producing too high a volume to allow for in-flight product refinement. With your designs already tucked away in a digital file, transitioning projects to an innovative-minded third party can be efficiently accomplished.

Adding a valued team of engineering and manufacturing consultants to your project is simplified when using a digital fabrication process. In addition to the ability to send projects to your manufacturing partner without location limitations, the consulting team will likely possess a comprehensive digital design library at their fingertips. Such resources will provide an experienced and well-versed set of third eyes analyzing your project designs’ innermost complexities.

Some of the manufacturing options that you will gain when you leverage the skills and flexibility of a manufacturing consultant are:

  • 3D-laser scanning to ensure the utmost in product precision
  • The opportunity to utilize prismatic or non-prismatic geometry
  • Data-driven strictness in surface modeling and shaping
  • The ability to reverse engineer any part or product for reproductions or troubleshooting
  • Easy use of custom models or casts

These options provide a lot of insights into how you can utilize state-of-the-art manufacturing tools without investing in them yourself. You gain the advantages of low overhead costs, maximized flexibility in design and modification turnarounds, and getting your product into the marketplace fast, all without worrying about cutting corners on quality or intended features. It makes sense to consider an engineering and manufacturing partner as the best tool for creating your product.

Pacific Research Laboratories are waiting to bring your great ideas to life through the flexibility and power of digital fabrication. Our engineering and design teams are ready to collaborate with you to produce a product effectively using our ability to facilitate your manufacturing goals from start to finish. To learn more about our services, please visit our contact page or call (206) 408-7603.