The TriMech Design Solutions team understands that bringing an idea to life is a complex journey. Many visionaries get caught in the gap between ideation and implementation, turning a product into a reality. Our objective at TriMech Group is to provide engineering design services and guide innovators, creators, and entrepreneurs through the design and initial prototyping process, turning concepts into reality.
TriMech Design Solutions’ expertise can seamlessly integrate at any stage of the process, no prerequisites needed! Our team has experience helping clients navigate this tricky process, and with our design services, you can trust that you’re in the right hands. In this post, we will guide you through the typical stages of the product development process and explain how leveraging our design services can provide the assurance you need at every stage.
Stage 1: Ideation Process
The journey begins with an idea, a problem that needs a solution. Let’s imagine a scenario: You have a new design for a smart speaker. Amazing! But how do you turn this idea into something real? Great ideas are just the beginning but turning them into something tangible requires the right implementation tools and guidance.
Smart speaker digital prototype
This is where TriMech Design Solutions comes in. We provide the expertise and support required to shapeshift your vision into a tangible concept. We facilitate back-and-forth collaboration to refine your idea and provide CAD work based on sketches and descriptions to build new ideas. At this stage, you might have a general problem definition but lack concrete refinement. At this stage, it can be difficult to determine the best course of action. Approximately 30% of our interactions lead our team to identify alternative solutions more suitable for the client rather than working directly with our team. However, in cases where TriMech Design Solutions is the optimal choice, our engineers enjoy working with clients early in the ideation phase.
The duration of the ideation phase varies upon several factors, including the number of collaborators looking to provide input and the level of resource allocation. One benefit of working with TriMech Design Solutions is the flexibility to tailor our services to the direct requirements and desires of each project or client rather than trying to fit each project into a box with certain parameters for each stage.
Stage 2: Initial Prototyping
With a clearer concept in hand, we move on to the innovative stage of initial prototyping. Here, we dive into a specific idea that you and your client favor. Offering product design services at the forefront of our business, we refine the general concept, making critical decisions about the size of the hardware and the required sturdiness of the design.
3D printed prototypes
TriMech Design Solutions can create prototypes both through CAD and 3D printing, allowing us to evaluate and test the viability of your design. This stage may involve creating an alpha prototype, which serves as an early version of your product. This initial prototyping stage can act as a launchpad for further refinement to create more advanced prototypes to shape your idea into a tangible reality.
Stage 3: Further Refining
After the initial prototyping, it’s common to discover areas that require improvement. Our team goes back to the CAD models to modify components and create new pieces. The iterative process continues with further prototyping, getting you closer to your goal. Our TriMech Design Solutions Team has the expertise to guide you through each change along the way, helping your product or idea evolve beyond what you originally imagined.
Testing physical design elements
Beyond Engineering Design Services at TriMech
Our team at TriMech Design Solutions understands that designing and turning an idea into reality can be part of a broader scope. We can provide a boost of manpower and supplemental support that you need to boost your project in a timely fashion. We’ll collaborate with you to rekindle your design to meet engineering design services and manufacturing requirements.
We adapt to what the manufacturer needs, whether it’s a 3D model or a full drawing package with dimensions and tolerances. With flexible options like fixed-cost quoting and hourly block quotes, we tailor our services to fit your specific project. TriMech Design Solutions’ expertise can seamlessly integrate into any stage of the design process. This versatility makes TriMech Design Solutions an indispensable partner for prototyping and refinement at any level.
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