Innovation First, we identify your target market and explore an exhaustive area of product space around this target. This is an interactive component of 3DM Design's process, in which we work with your team to push into new creative space and challenge any assumptions associated with the product category. In this phase, we map and forecast many possibilities, and conclude with recommendations to help you through the decision-making process. Evolve Once we have a several great ideas on the table, it's time to explore deeper. In this phase, 3DM Design evaluates the concepts against various criteria, we merge, build, and evolve concepts, and we engage in an exploration of the manufacturability and useability of each idea. Concepts emerge from this stage as more refined and complete solutions, each with a clear path to production. Decide Now that we've made decisions and narrowed the field of solutions, we need to communicate the leading options clearly and completely. This will enable your management team, your suppliers, and your focus groups to make better decisions and provide you with more meaningful information. Concept solutions that survive this stage are viable and complete, with clear paths to production and commercialization. Prototyping 3DM Design's skilled model making and prototyping staff can support you at many stages of the product development process. We can provide anything from simple foam models to sophisticated 'looks-like', 'works-like' functional appearance models.

Proof of Concept Prototypes Functional Bread Board Prototypes Aesthetic Appearance Models Functional Appearance Models Models for Trade Shows Models for Focus Groups

Engineering 3DM Design's engineering staff are experts at putting products together. We've developed products to withstand the most grueling environmental conditions, we've created complex mechanisms with several dozen moving parts, and we've optimized products to remove every unnecessary cent from the manufacturing cost.

Design for Manufacture DFMEA CAD Modeling (Solidworks) Critical Design Reviews Cost and Function Optimization Engineering Documentation Material Selection Finite Element Analysis

Manufacturer Relations We work with qualified manufacturers, yours or ours, that provide estimates of tooling capital and production costs so that you can fully evaluate your project from a return-on- investment standpoint. 3DM Design has worked with dozens of manufacturers globally on programs including injection molded plastics, blow-molded plastics, thermoforming, sheet metal, die casting, extrusion, and dozens of other manufacturing processes and secondary operations. We have found that a thorough and professional "Request for Quote" package makes it easier to engage and qualify manufacturers. We either supply the package to your team or we work directly with contract manufacturers to meet your business needs. Furthermore, on commodity products produced in China or Asia, 3DM Design has developed an approach to development release called "Design for China" (DFC). In this method, we take the prototype and design process only up to the point where the engineering direction is clearly set but the final engineering details are executed by an Asian manufacturer. By balancing our design process for these types of programs, we are able to save you significant development costs, while maintaining control of your development program.