How do you close the gap between I wonder and I know? You make a prototype. A prototype is a tool that gives you a chance to investigate your ideas and explore what could, should, or would come next, ...

How to work out a prototyping strategy that eases the transition to mass production. The advantages of using data from devices in the field to improve designs over time. How to make products more ...

Model early, model often, and pass the prototype around. Despite the lifelike renderings of 3D CAD models, there are intangibles in designs that cannot be conveyed through a computer monitor. Just ...

Prototyping is ubiquitous in the product development world these days. Rapid prototyping methods, tools, and techniques are widely applied in the process of creating products. With proper ...

Anaheim, Calif. — Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical launched its new Rapid Development Center in Delano, Minn., to create a single source of design, rapid prototyping, development and serial production ...

The more latitude designers have defining a part's final form, the greater the strength and quality available without increasing cost. So says Claude Gidman, an industrial designer at Gidman Design ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

The Dimension (above) from Stratasys creates prototypes in ABS. The Dimension is used primarily in the design stage, while the FDM Maxum?also by Stratasys?is used to create higher-resolution ...

Abstract: Prototyping is an essential part of product development in companies, and yet it is one of the least explored areas of design practice. There are limited ethnographic studies conducted ...

If your department is in a high-growth area or in need of replacing numerous fire stations, one approach to developing multiple fire stations is using a prototype fire station design process. Often, ...

How advances in semiconductor prototyping are helping optimize and create efficiencies in semiconductor chip manufacturing and development. Why semiconductor prototyping is a crucial step in the ...