Walk the floor at an additive manufacturing trade show and one will find companies pitching their solutions for the design and prototyping of a product, the manufacture and measurement of the parts, and everything in between.
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What happens in between often requires a lot of thought, even more action, and more time than anybody would like to spend.
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It’s likely that prototypes are 3D printed in one material and the subsequent end-use components injection moulded or machined in another. “That is a risky process because it entails new validations, it entails new materials, it entails extra time, extra costs,” Lasse G Staal, Co-founder and CEO of AddiFab , said for possibly the umpteenth time on the third afternoon of TCT Show. AddiFab is a company positioning itself in the in-between, hoping to relieve manufactures of the above considerations: “I see a gap […]
Texas Prototype is a full-service concept to production service company offering concept review, design consultancy, material selection, prototyping, and low volume production.
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A division of Texas Injection Molding, we understand the requirements of high-volume manufacturing and offer design for manufacturing experience to ensure cost-effective manufacturable products as product designs are delivered from prototype to high volume production.
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