Industry Feature
Rapid prototyping with 3D printing
Product Development is all about solving hard problems with the tools afforded to you. The combination of aggressive timelines and optimistic budgeting often means cutting more corners, taking fewer risks, and further compromising design intent to make your product a reality. 3D printing enables you to develop better products faster by providing a way to fabricate functional parts on demand. Whether it’s rapid prototyping to iteratively refine designs, or bridge tooling to quickly stand up production, 3D printing will help you develop better products faster.
Brooks specializes in fragile products that require high degrees of precision. The ability to 3D print continuous carbon fiber gave Brooks new rapid prototyping capabilities — the ability to prototype nearly twice as fast — for nearly half the cost. Discover how Brooks and over 100 other industry leaders achieve impressive results with the Markforged platform.
“We’re able to take prototype parts into a meeting and show what the finished parts may look like.”
Mechanical Engineer, Brooks Automation
Centor manufactures custom doors for both commercial and residential applications. Before engaging on a product run, each door required a proof of concept prototype with in-house machinists creating low volume component runs. This product prototyping process was expensive, slow, and led to inconsistent quality.
Adding 3D printing into the workflow, allowed Centor to create an efficient rapid prototyping process that was 93% faster and reduced costs by 99%. Now, the 3D printer runs nearly 24/7, giving the product development process for Centor a huge boost and the ability to redirect resources to large production runs and let the rapid prototyping run smoothly, with a focus on design iteration.
