Rapid Prototyping Services
Conceptualize and Realize
Have a product design, idea or invention? With our rapid prototyping and manufacturing services, you can make your concept a reality!
As your rapid prototyping company, our services have you covered from the beginning of product design to full-scale manufacturing. We are prototype parts manufacturers with the capabilities and expertise to assist you at every step of your development process.
Completed Solutions For Rapid Prototyping And Manufacturing Protytypes
Your competitive advantage depends on time in today’s market. You need to balance speed with quality because the market waits for no one and forgives nothing. Count on Elimold’s rapid prototyping capabilities to help you get more done in less time, cruising through your speed to market objectives, building your competitive advantage, and saving your team’s Friday night.
Move fast from design to manufacturing with our rapid prototyping services. Your product will be in your hands promptly, letting you quickly test and adjust the design as necessary. Then Elimold can move seamlessly into manufacturing production quantities.
As a full-service rapid prototyping company, Elimold also offers design, development, and engineering services to assist our customers in guiding their prototype from Concept, to CAD model, to Prototype, to Product.
Elimold’s rapid prototyping capabilities and deep technical knowledge provide the competitive edge customers need when undergoing the product development process, in order to assist in validating products and expediting them to market. Elimold’s rapid prototyping approach uses the latest technologies and most advanced materials to achieve our customers’ prototyping goals. We specialize in quick turnaround, but also provide the rapid prototyping engineering experience to save our customers time and money.
From concept to prototype to production
Elimold can support your design and manufacturing of prototypes, tooling, test jigs and fixtures. We have the engineering expertise and experience to assist in the design of refractory metal components. This is one of our specialties, and customers tell us it dramatically shortens the time from prototype concept to finished design.
Design
Our 3D design capabilities allow us to provide you with many file formats of your work.
Prototype
Experienced professionals can assist in your ideas for better machining and manufacturing.
Production
Our production equipment turns out highly toleranced parts in production quantities.
Get Started with our services
If you are working on a new product or refining an existing one, rapid prototyping is ideal to test, iterate and adjust your concept. This is a way to speed up your designing process and bring your ideas and product to market faster.Do you need parts as quickly as possible to validate a project? Select a service below and we’ll produce your part in no time at our ISO 9001 certified facility.
3D Printing
CNC Machining
Injection Molding
Sheet Metal Fabrication
Rapid Prototyping Applications
Because of its utility and versatility, rapid prototyping has been widely adopted for these and other common applications:
- Visual prototypes and concept models
- Functional prototypes
- Pre-production prototypes
- Validate form, fit and function prior to production of tooling
- Test jigs and fixtures for accuracy
- Building molds for prototypes
- Marketing mockups for trade shows
Rapid Prototyping Materials
Among each of our service lines you’ll find several thermoplastic, thermoset, elastomeric, and metal options, so you can prototype and test in actual production-grade materials.
Custom Rapid Prototypes Surface Finishes
After rapid prototypes are completed, most parts need surface finishes. The purpose of surface treatment is to meet the product’s corrosion resistance, wear resistance, decoration or other special functional requirements.
Common surface finish processes include grinding, polishing, electroplating, anodizing, blackening passivation, brushing, sandblasting, painting, powder spraying, printing (silk printing, pad printing), laser carving, and phosphating.
Start your rapid prototyping process today with Elimold
Choose a prototyping partner with short lead times and experienced advice using our innovation-oriented point of view. Elimold is dedicated to helping you succeed and using additive manufacturing in a way adapted to your business’s needs.
With 10+ years of expertise in manufacturing for production and prototyping, Elimold also offers rigorous quality control. you get professional rapid prototyping at your fingertips. upload your 3D files,We’ll take care of the rest in our industrial ISO 9001 factory.
What is Rapid Prototyping?
Rapid prototyping services are widely used product development methods and are an important stage in the part and product development process. Often used to create product models, they are fast and affordable manufacturing methods that can easily generate multiple iterations of a part or product for testing and analysis.
Due to their cost-effectiveness and extremely short lead times, various types of 3D printing processes are often used for rapid prototyping. In addition to 3D printing, other types of rapid prototyping processes include sheet metal processing, CNC machining, and rapid injection molding.
In terms of rapid prototyping strategies, engineers often need to manufacture multiple prototypes at the same time, or quickly produce and modify a prototype until the prototype meets the expected specifications. Rapid prototyping provides engineers with key data points to help them decide on any design modifications before generating more expensive models for further analysis or final production. Rapid prototyping can reduce the risk of rushing into production without sufficient quantity to confirm the data.
Once you have created a product prototype and made the necessary design adjustments, you can verify whether your product is suitable for the market. After the prototype has been tested and verified, you can move into high-volume production.
Types of rapid prototype
Used by customers across many industries, rapid prototyping encompasses different technologies and materials. It also covers different kinds of prototypes, including visual-only prototypes and functional prototypes used for testing a part’s performance.
A proof-of-concept prototype is the earliest and simplest prototype used to convey the basic idea of the part. Concept models are typically kept internal and may go through several iterations.
A display prototype (or looks-like prototype) is a more developed prototype focusing on its cosmetic aspects. The prototype should resemble the final part as much as possible, though it may not function fully.
A functional prototype is built to behave like the end-use part. This enables the designer to conduct mechanical testing on the prototype to ensure its correct function.
A pre-production prototype or factory sample is the last prototype used before production. It is typically used to validate the chosen mass manufacturing process, ensuring that the manufactured part will perform as expected.
Why get rapid prototypes?
Whether you are an engineer, industrial designer, or part of a product development team, rapid prototyping services can offer you distinct advantages such as:
- The ability to explore and realize concepts quickly and cost-effectively. Quick turnaround times and low costs allow teams to move far beyond the visualization of an idea, making it easier to grasp the properties and design of a product in the physical world.
- Reiterate designs and incorporate changes that allow for improved product evaluation and functional testing. This iterative rapid prototyping process provides a roadmap to developing and refining the final product before taking it to the market, ensuring that your design is optimized and foolproof.
- The ability to physically showcase concepts concisely and effectively. Rapid prototyping takes ideas, images, and concepts from an idea or two-dimensional visual into hands-on products that clients, colleagues, and collaborators can hold in their hands and see in action.
- The ability to thoroughly test and refine a concept. Minimizing design flaws with a small-volume rapid prototype run helps eliminate costly design flaws that might not be evident during an early assessment.
- Using a rapid prototyping service can save time and money by eliminating the need for setup and tooling. Since Elimold can use the same equipment to produce various prototypes with different properties and materials, our rapid prototyping services’ overall costs and turnaround time are kept to a minimum.
Advantages of Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping provides significant advantages to part designers. You can use it to:
- Reduced design & development time
- Reduced overall product development cost
- Elimination or reduction of risk
- Allows functionality testing at a fraction of the cost
- Improved and increased user involvement during design stages of NPD
- Ability to evaluate human factors and ergonomics
Industries We Serve
- Medical
- Electronic (IOT)
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Consumer
- Appliance
- Industrial
- Space
How To Choose The Right Rapid Prototyping Technique
The right prototyping method is the one that best fits your budget, the complexity of the part, what you want the prototype to do, and your development timeline. Better prototypes cost more money and take longer to make, but they also more faithfully represent the form, fit, and function of a production part.
The basic questions to ask are these:(There are many variables to consider and we cannot cover them all here.)
- Will the prototype be a static display model?
- Does it need to be fully functional?
- Are there multiple, interconnected parts?
- What is the surface texture and finish?
- What is it made from?
- How important is strength and durability?
- How closely should it match the final production version?
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Super Quality China Rapid Prototyping Service. Now matter how complex the job is, we make it simple and perfect for you. If you are looking for Rapid Prototyping Service from China for your new design, all you need to do is email to us, we will provide you our most favorable price and highest quality rapid prototypes/models on time.
Consult with Elimold’s experienced rapid prototyping engineering team today.