Renaud Anjoran, Sofeast's CEO, joins Adrian from the team to talk about rapid prototyping and rapid tooling methods to make prototypes a lot faster than production tooling, with a focus on electromechanical products and plastic injection molding.
You'll get answers to the following questions: What are rapid prototyping and rapid tooling? What do we discover from different rounds of prototyping? What are the features of hard tooling? What are the pros and cons of the different technologies used for rapid prototyping? And much more...
Ultimately, you'll see why rushing into production without utilizing prototypes to test and validate your product design is a big risk.
Show Notes
00:00 - Introducing the episode
01:01 - What is rapid prototyping?
04:37 - Why to perform rounds of prototyping to get to a minimum viable prototype
06:33 - The difference between additive and subtractive manufacturing for prototypes
08:55 - Rapid prototyping rounds and PP samples and making the distinction between rapid prototyping and rapid tooling
Read our Guide To Rapid Tooling Prototyping for more details and a handy table that compares the different methods.
13:30 - Discussing hard tooling and its pros & cons
18:32 - The benefits of doing iterations of prototypes during pre-production - based on this blog post: Prototesting: Reap All the Value of Proof of Concept Prototypes.
21:57 - The pros & cons of the different technologies for typically making plastic parts - Renaud talks through the different technologies that may be used for rapid prototyping:
37:57 - Renaud's key points to take away if you're an importer who is looking into doing rapid prototyping - here are the takeaways that will be helpful:
41:24 - Wrapping up
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