The 5 Must-Haves in a Prototyping Company

by Taylor Markk1 Writer

Multiple industries need high quality, precise, and safe parts and components for the items they manufacture. That includes children’s toys, medical equipment, automobiles, airplanes, and more. To feel 100 percent confident in what they use, it all starts with professional prototyping services.

 Most industries need custom prototypes, to ensure they end up with a profile or model  of a particular part or component which matches their design criteria perfectly. However, the advantage of a prototype is it allows for change, even a small design flaw or omission could prove disastrous. Fortunately, the designer and engineer can make appropriate modifications before having thousands of incorrect products manufactured.

The Key to Success – Hiring the Right Product Prototype Company

Considering the quality of a finished product depends on the quality of a prototype, it’s important to hire the right company for prototyping services. Here are five things to look for in a company.

1. Understands the Customer’s Needs

 The best product prototype company spends the necessary time with customers to understand their specific needs. After all, some prototypes are simple while others are complex. Without some knowledge of the customer, a fabricator could struggle to make a quality prototype.

2.  Learns About the Customer’s Industry

Especially for custom prototypes, it helps fabricators to learn about every customer’s industry. Although they don’t need to become experts, they should have a good idea of the types of parts and components used to make the products. Also getting familiar with the machines used by customers to help a fabrication company make better prototypes.

By understanding the industry, a product prototype company can seamlessly guide the customer through each step of the prototyping process. Long-term, this helps build trust and solid business relationships. 

3. Provides Full-Scale Services

 Without question, a full-scale fabrication company is the best choice, along with prototyping services, allowing customers to turn to one trusted source for all their fabrication needs, saving a customer valuable time by not going all over the city for different services and custom prototypes. Some examples include tool and die, cutting, CNC machining, metal stamping, mechanical assembly, and more.

This  Working with one reputable source also improves communication, which can eliminate costly risks.

4. Rapidly Adapts to Change

Especially when it comes to the services provided by a product prototype company, things can change fast. A great source for prototyping understands this and, in response, has a team of designers, engineers, and project managers who can make appropriate decisions in real-time. The goal is to keep the customer’s prototyping project moving forward regardless of challenges that arise.

5.  Offers Versatility

This comes in two ways. First, versatility is in the types of services available. Beyond custom prototypes, a full-service company can assist customers in many ways. Second, versatility has to do with the quantity or volume of parts or components produced. Often, smaller businesses only need a few finished products. However, some fabrication companies handle nothing but large production runs.

There are two advantages to using a fabrication company which can accommodate both small and large production needs. First, they can work with businesses of all sizes. Second, even big organizations that typically order mass-produced products can have one-offs made.

Promark Does It All

For all the custom prototypes and other fabrication projects, customers can count on us at Promark Tool and Manufacturing, Inc. Give us a call to discuss any specific project.

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