Large corporations often have research and development departments where they define new strategies, and prototypes which their company can sell in the market place to consumers. This is how they come up with new services and products to appease their clientele and customers. Without innovation, a large Corporation can become stodgy, slow, and uncompetitive amongst their competition.
Although customers and clients say they want change, the reality is that humans do not want too much change, but they like to have new features, designs, and occasional changes. Of course, once a corporation has gotten too large, often they can no longer do the research and development in-house and feel the need to outsource.
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Imagine creating a part inside of a computer and then being able to hold and evaluate that part 45 minutes later. What would have been inconceivable 20 years ago is now well established technology. Three-dimensional printers make it possible.
The old school method of creating prototypes involved first creating two-dimensional drawings of a part and then taking those drawings to a model maker to create the prototype. The model maker would first have to correctly interpret the drawings (assuming that all of the necessary information was shown), and then a process for creating the prototype was identified. This process could be as simple as cutting metal with a band saw to as complicated as creating an injection mold. After the part was created, the smart engineer would have the part carefully inspected and measured to make sure that it fell within the specifications on the drawings. If it didn’t pass inspection, the part would need to be modified or, worse yet, scrapped and the entire process would start all over again.
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In this article I will discuss the three most popular questions I receive when it comes to a prototype. What is a prototype? Should I develop a prototype? Reasons to develop a prototype.
What is a prototype?
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