Product category:
Rapid Prototyping
News Release from: Quickparts
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 January 2000
Website speeds quotes for rapid
prototypes
Quickparts.com has launched the prototyping industry's first business-to-business e-commerce website for quoting and purchasing custom manufactured prototype parts.
Quickparts.com has launched the prototyping industry's first business-to-business e-commerce website for quoting and purchasing custom manufactured prototype parts Quickparts.com provides the product development community a fully automated e-commerce approach to dramatically simplify and speed up the traditional process of quoting and purchasing custom prototyped parts, more specifically known as "rapid prototyping"
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rapid prototyping is a term used to describe the manufacture of plastic parts using a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process, as opposed to the more commonly known subtractive methods of milling and machining.
Rapid prototyping enables the rapid production of small quantities of plastic prototype parts, a critical capability for product development companies.
At the heart of the Quickparts.com website is QuickQuote, a revolutionary breakthrough in automatically and instantly analysing a user's 3D CAD custom geometry right on the website.
QuickQuote will read the customers 3D CAD solid model, automatically orient the part geometry for the best quality output for the chosen rapid prototyping technology (SLA, SLS, FDM), and instantly produce a price quotation and lead-time estimate.
The user then simply clicks the order button, and the job of producing the custom manufactured prototype in the chosen rapid prototyping technology is instantly started.
This breakthrough approach to enable e-commerce for the rapid prototyping industry will shave precious time off of the traditional process of outsourcing rapid prototyped parts.
Engineering time required to obtain various quotes for custom manufactured prototypes is virtually eliminated, and access to the instant quoting and ordering system is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In today's competitive product development environments, time saved is directly related to dollars saved.
"We are simply responding to what the product development market has been asking for, for quite some time now", stated Ronald L Hollis PE, President of Quickparts.com.
"Our customer-centred market research indicated that the top two needs of the RP outsourcing industry are first, low prices for rapid prototyped parts, and second, fast turnaround time for quotes".
"Quickparts.com directly addresses both of those needs".
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