Essential Tips on Prototyping Your New Product

Essential Tips on Prototyping New Product

The most important step that follows after conceiving a brilliant new product idea and creating a viable product design is prototyping your new product. A product prototype is a tangible form, that is, you can see, touch, feel, and sense, your product concept.

Prototyping your new product is the best thing you can do to take your concept further. A product prototype not only gives you an idea of how your product will look and feel, but it serves other important purposes as well. For instance, you can use your prototype to impress potential stakeholders and generate finance to take your product further to the market.

Prototyping your new product also helps you identify design or function flaws and rectify them in the early stages, before bulk manufacturing. Not to forget, a product prototype also serves as an excellent sample or model on which you can try different things to make the final product even better. Overall, prototyping your new product is an essential step that you, as an entrepreneur or innovator, should not overlook.

Here are some tips on prototyping your new product

Determine the type of prototype you require:

It is extremely important to understand the purpose of prototyping your new product.

• Can you evaluate the feasibility of your product design?
• Can you determine whether the product will be practical and/or lucrative for bulk manufacturing?
• Is it to impress potential stakeholders and get funds to take your product further?
• Is it to sell on any crowdfunding platform?

Do not spend too much on prototyping

You do not need to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on product prototype development. Initially, all you have to do is create a simple prototype. Use cardboard or polystyrene foams to make your prototype. You can exclude most aesthetic aspects and functions in the early prototypes. After you achieve what you expected from the prototype, like feasibility for bulk manufacturing or feedback from potential consumers, you can increase your budget for developing a solid prototype with most or all aspects included. For that, you will need to hire a product prototype development company.

Hire a product prototype development company that uses the latest technologies

If you need a solid prototype, that includes most or all functions, find and partner with a product prototype development company. Product prototype development companies use rapid prototyping solutions, such as CAD (computer-aided-design) applications, and additive manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing, in order to develop fully functional and visually beautiful product prototypes, quickly and accurately.

Go for manufacturing of the final product, but keep it in small batches

There is no need to bulk manufacture until you fully understand the market demand and the acceptability of your new product among the consumers. You also need to derive the profitability of your product. If you go for bulk manufacturing from the onset, you might end up with inventory that you cannot move and is unprofitable. To ensure such a thing does not happen, manufacture your product in small batches initially.

If you need assistance with New product prototype development, then GID Development Corporation is here to help. A product prototype development company in California, USA, GID Development Corporation has vast experience in prototyping your new product. They use rapid prototyping solutions, like Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which includes CATIA V6, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, GEOVIA, and other apps, to develop new product prototypes quickly, accurately, and economically. Get in touch with them to learn more about new product design, product prototype development, and overall product development importance.

GID Development Corporation is currently offering a free 15-minute telephonic consultation with one of the product development experts, Jim Grimes. Jim is available at 714-323-1052 between 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST. Call Jim today!