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With its Consultative Design Service for Injection Moulding, Protolabs is offering engineers a critical missing link that will help them find the best manufacturable solution for their parts.

Protolabs has launched a new injection moulding Consultative Design Service that will tap into the critical thinking and problem solving of its 200-strong team of engineers.

Already known for its automated design for manufacturing analysis via its digital quoting platform, the new offer has the potential to help clients across numerous industries optimise performance of its components, reduce manufacturing costs and shorten lead times.

Samuel Guest, Protolabs Product Manager for Injection Moulding, commented: “Our quoting platform is well-known in industry and allows you to upload your CAD and check whether it can be injection moulded — it even suggests alterations that would make it better and save money. The advantage is that you will receive your report and quote back within a couple of hours. It’s a really fast way of checking that your design is practical for production.”

The new complementary service allows clients to take advantage of Protolabs’ engineering experience in injection moulding to help optimise their solution. Whilst the quoting platform will check that a specific design is possible, customers may also need the critical thinking of a person to find the best solution. There may be other alternatives that save money or provide better functionality. “By understanding what it is that you hope to achieve, we can become part of your team to provide that link between design and manufacturing. We are not a design engineering consultancy but can offer design for manufacturing advice. And that’s the link that is often missing”, says Guest.

The Consultative Design Service allows companies to choose what sort of advice they need. They can continue to use the digital quoting platform by uploading their CAD as many times as they like to check and recheck their designs.

Alternatively, they can take advantage of the company’s extended offer by contacting their account manager after they have uploaded their CAD and received their first automated design for manufacturability analysis and quote.

According to Samuel Guest, Protolabs makes full use of the digital thread provided by CAD to help automate product development and manufacturing. “This makes it faster, more responsive, and repeatable. When you combine the advantages of automation with the critical thinking of humans you have a really powerful proposition. Our new service enables industry to blend the benefits of both to better match their needs”, Guest adds.

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