No one Olympics athlete can achieve gold medal without hard training. Just like a popular product needs "hard training" ---the repeated design, verification and improvement, before going to market. When it comes to this point, it is extremely crucial to find a qualified and suitable low-volume manufacturer along your product development.
How to choose the most suitable service provider to help you get the real products or prototypes from design work? Here are four key points you should concentrate on and verify when selecting the manu- facturer. |
1. What kind of manufacturing supplier are you looking for? |
Please note that you are choosing manufacturing factory or manufacturer focusing on prototyping as their primary business. Please do not take manufacturing factory as priority, unless you can guarantee that your design is perfect, and can be fabricated without a bit modification.
Therefore, a higher level and capability of prototyping manufacturer would be friendly with your changing requirements and repeated modification on prototype stage.
2. What range of services does your prototyping supplier offer? |
Please take an investigation on your supplier and make clear the range of services they are offering. It’s crucial to make sure that your supplier provides multiple service. Since you don’t want your prototypes to be machined by a few manufacturing suppliers, such as a supplier doesn’t offer CNC machining, injection molding or surface treatment service. Therefore, choosing several manufacturers for one prototyping part will cause more risks and raise communication costs.
RPWORLD, a one-stop service provider would be your perfect choice. You can enjoy a series of service at RPWORLD starting from your primary design work to real products. To realize that, we offer CNC Machining, Injection Molding, Urethane Casting, 3D Printing, Sheet Metal Fabrication, various high-quality surface treatment and free DFMA.
3. Is your low-volume manufacturer able to keep costs down and improve efficiencies? |
4. Is your intellectual property under protection when your project arrives at your low-volume manufa- cturer? |