Design is a matter of balance: weight vs. strength, cost vs. quality, speed vs. accuracy, and so on. As development progresses, prototyping is an essential part of the balancing process, and ...

A critical phase during product design and development is verification of your design. Design verification can be attained either by simulation or prototyping. Prototyping is usually the preferred ...

In the previous article on this topic, I stated the importance of prototyping during product design and development to verify your design. I reviewed the many plastic prototyping options available to ...

These prototypes serve as invaluable assets for design verification and testing before full-scale production. Industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical, among others, leverage CNC machining ...

The ZBuilder Ultra makes high-end functional plastic prototypes. The unit is said to rival injection molding’s accuracy, material properties, detail, and surface finish. The machine lets users verify ...

The material is for medical, food, and pharmaceutical prototyping and production applications. ABS-M30i offers mechanical-property improvements over standard ABS including tensile, impact, and ...

Melker of Sweden's new Värmdö kayak. Prototypes are how companies measure if a new product will sink or swim. At Melker of Sweden, a sport kayak maker, they take this product development stage quite ...

create the object can be costly and time-consuming. So, it wasn’t all that far-fetched for Lantz, president of A. Rifkin Co., such as computer-aided design, or CAD, models. He’s taking it a step ...

Barren walls surround a two-room suite at the back end of a factory near downtown. Little else is there besides a table with a scattering of plastic and metal trinkets manufactured by the room’s only ...

The Lego Group is one step closer to reaching its goal of making all its products from sustainable material by 2030. A one-liter plastic PET bottle provides enough raw material for 10 2 x 4 LEGO ...

Welcome to our first issue of August 2024. This week features our 2024 Workplace Safety Report, by Assistant Managing Editor Steve Toloken. One story details the painful death of Todd Shaffer, who was ...