Low Volume Prototyping & Production

The advantage of prototyping your design with RP is that we know how to mass produce your product as well. We can offer design for manufacture advice early in the product development to help reduce costs and lead times to market.

3D Printing

Great for 1 off prototypes for the purpose of proving your design. There are some limitations with material selection although high detail and complexity can be acheived with the quickest lead time.

CNC Machining

CNC machining uses real production representative material rather than simulant material used by alternate prototyping methods. High precision and repeatability can be achieved with fast lead times.

Vacuum Casting

Vacuum Casting using silicone molds are perfect for short run production and is a lower cost method of producing higher prototype volumes. In-molded textures and colors, over-molding of rubber simulants. RoHS certified materials.

Sheet Metal

RP has the ability to produce prototype and low volume stamped parts with very fast lead times. The blanks are usually produced via CNC or laser cutting to reduce the lead time.

Injection Molding

When the correct grade of plastic or a low volume build is required, prototype injection molding is ideal. We can produce a low-cost mold in as fast as 4 days!

Functional Prototyping

We are able to produce fully functional working electronic prototypes. Contact us about your project.

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Process Suitability Vs Price

Process	1 to 10 parts	10 to 100 parts	100 to 10k parts
SLA	Good	poor	poor
SLS	Good	Poor	Poor
CNC	Excellent	Good	Fair
Vacuum Casting	Good	Good	Poor
Injection Molding	Poor	Good	Excellent

6000

Prototype/year

happy clients

hour operation

300

molds/year

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Cross bow arrow – Vacuum cast and CNC machined

Aluminium and ABS housing – CNC machined

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Dedicated 24/6 Support

Our factories run 24 hours, 6 days per week (7 days when needed). Schedule a meeting today in your time zone.

Free DFM

Don’t wait until you are ready to start production to find out your design cannot be manufactured. Problems can be identified early in the product development process with RP’s DFM (Design for Manufacture) analysis. This can not only save time it will also save money.