Summary:
A German manufacturer of prototypes and small series for testing purposes offers its services to manufacturing enterprises from the industrial sector with the aim of concluding a manufacturing agreement and developing a long-lasting and mutually fruitful cooperation in the design, development, testing, manufacturing and supply of tools, moulds and techniques.
Description:
Founded in 1991, the German SME is specialized in the manufacturing of prototypes for several industrial sectors, ranging from high-precision micro parts to large-volume parts with free form surfaces.
The company masters and offers the following techniques and procedures for the manufacture of high quality products:
• 3D printing/rapid prototyping: used to generate high quality master patterns for vacuum moulding and individual prototypes as finished parts;
• Stereolithography (STL): procedure to manufacture prototypes quickly and cheaply;
• Selective Laser Sintering (SLS): quick and cheap way to manufacture functional prototypes made of technical plastics;
• Vacuum moulding: second cast technique to manufacture small series of plastic parts in polyurethane (PUR) and polyamid (PA6);
• Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM): low price, quick procedure to manufacture models out of original thermoplastic materials;
• Metal precision casting: used for the manufacture of small and pre-series made of metal.
The company wants to sign manufacturing agreements with enterprises from various industrial sectors which use rapid prototyping techniques and added manufacturing for their production processes, which need a manufacturer/supplier of prototypes and which are interested in cooperating on the design, development, testing and manufacture of respective tools, techniques and moulds.
Hence, the cooperation will concentrate on the customized manufacture of prototypes, covering all the respective steps in the production process.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
Being a contract manufacturer of prototypes and small series, the enterprise is looking for appropriate manufacturers from the automotive/industrial sector who need such prototypes for test purposes or the production of small series.
Possible forms of cooperation can be in the fields of
design, research and development, testing, manufacturing and supply of tools, moulds and techniques.
● Cooperation on design:
Agreement on the designing of tools and moulds for the manufacturing process;
● Cooperation on development:
Agreement on research and development of the material for the prototypes;
● Cooperation on testing:
Agreement on the testing of the developed prototypes of tools and moulds in order to further optimise the tools, moulds and techniques;
● Cooperation on the manufacturing:
Agreement on the manufacture and supply of protoypes according to clients' specifications;
The enterprise expects from potential partners:
- to send orders for manufacturing of protoypes;
- with comprehensive, clear, complete and technically correct instructions;
- to provide a clear catalogue of criteria which the prototypes will have to fulfill and meet;
- to define the test criteria and methods for the testing of its prototypes;
- to respectively test the protoypes;
- to give a clear feedback on possible errors, inadequacies, incorrect implementation.
So, in order to be able to start a fruitful cooperation, the enterprise expects potential partners to be experienced in the prototyping business and to have and respect clear working methods.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
External code:
BODE20200713001
