Big distribution allows companies to bring in all the homes a wide range of essential household appliances: TVs, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and polishers are essential in our daily routine since decades. Moreover, items that used to be considered a luxury are more and more present in every home, such as microwave ovens, dishwashers and coffee makers.
Every single item cited before is realised thanks to the union of a big number of components, which allow its proper functioning. Consumers expect to buy long-lasting appliances, so a fundamental thing to remember is that every single element has to be adequately tested to check how it can be assembled, if defects are present and it is time resistant.
Rapid prototyping allows testing these components functionalities rapidly: time and design costs are reduced, but also test are much more efficiently performed. Consequently, the final product has a higher quality, satisfies consumers and increases brand reputation.
Depending on the material, the dimensions and the complexity the client requires, rapid prototyping offers different technologies, among which stereolithography, sintering, vacuum casting and FDM. Prototyping is used to build small amounts of prototypes i.e. preproduction.
Prototypes are used during the design and test phases to reduce dimensions, shapes and physical characteristics that the final product should have, so that test to identify defects can be run, the life cycle can be assessed and improvements can be implemented.
Pre-series allow creating indicative productions to evaluate the real productive process capacity before series production starts.
In both cases, prototyping companies use less expensive materials and implement much more rapid processes. However, they are able to obtain similar results in terms of both quality and dimensional precision.
Thanks to a 20-year experience, PARTEC offers a huge range of solutions in terms of rapid prototyping for the big household appliances distribution. This service involves pre-production consultancy, prototypes realisation, post-working processes, quality control and products shipping.
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