Rapid Prototyping Hardware Machining

With the improvement of hardware processing technology, it becomes very logical to start many new product projects. When choosing the right metal fabricator, it's a good time to remember not only good prototypes and demonstration samples, but also the importance of suppliers' strong prototypes and demonstration samples to your product processing.

You might be at an outside sales meeting or an internal project meeting, or show at a trade show, or talk to investors, wherever you are, if you're showing your new part or product, make sure it doesn't let you are disappointed. When you take out a functional rapid prototyping metal processing product for test rotation, it is guaranteed that many partners will have eyes lit up.

The beauty of hardware work, finish your part/product before going to the meeting, make it beautiful. It needs to look done, even if you're not sure what the final finish will look like, to complete your part/product. If possible, your rapid prototyping product should look, feel and work like one product. Don't tell people at a meeting that you're showing them a prototype unless they ask to make them think it's the real deal. That's how good your prototype should be, and it should pass as a finished product as much as possible.

Robustness of hardware processing - beautiful product is great, but not enough to win an order. If your part/product isn't strong enough, someone will break it, or you might inadvertently break it during a demo. If your rapid prototype is broken, it's usually at this point that the meeting is over, even if you keep saying 30 minutes. Make your part/product strong, slightly over-manufacturing early rapid prototyping samples to prevent breakage.

Manufacturability of Hardware - You can pretend until you succeed, but don't pretend too much. When it comes to mass production and price points, the parts/products you present at the meeting must be based on reality. With 3D printing, we can now design almost anything, but that doesn't mean your design will necessarily be mass-produced and hit a market price point. Fight for the stars with your designs, but don't promise the world if you can't make it happen. Show a product based on manufacturing reality, because if you win an order, you don't have a lot of time to solve manufacturing problems.

If I could only choose one of the above, I would choose the robustness of the hardware. A product that fails at a sales meeting or trade show, trust me, won't even take the risk.