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Prototypes as a risk
insurance. Function and design models
are an essential intermediate state in developing new products and
validating product ideas. Prototypes make product
ideas tangible and put them to the test with respect to function,
ergonomics and marketing-acceptance. Votronic’s Perfect Prototyping
method provides many advantages for this: The representation of the
product in a physical and understandable form not only avoids
misinterpretations due to people unpractised in reading drawings, it
also reduces the possibility of mistakes during development and
manufacture. The coordination in
interdisciplinary co-operation between development, design and
marketing is considerably improved and speeded up. In the preliminary stages
of series production, prototypes provide the tool makers and the
process engineers with important revelations for planning and
preparation of an efficient assembly line. And last but not least
prototypes are essential exhibits for presentation, demonstration,
market studies and photo shooting.
We are also big in small
series. Aided by
stereo-lithographic models we produce negative moulds made of
silicon, that can be used in the production of small series in vacuum
moulding. The synthetic materials moulded via “cloning” give an
astoundingly real appearance in look and touch to practically any
model. The possibilities are
virtually unlimited. We can produce high-temperature-restistant parts
with properties corresponding to those of PVC, Polypropylene,
Polyethylene, or ABS: hard, soft, smooth, silky, matt, opaque, or
high-transparent, and in nearly any colour you wish. The components need not
necessarily be demoulded according to injection moulding rules. With
Votronic’s Perfect Prototyping demoulding is possible via undercut
without slider. Insert components can also be used without any
problems. An advantage of this
duplicating method is the independence of the pattern production from
remoldability requirements. Votronic’s Perfect
Prototyping simplifies and quickens the manufacture of prototypes,
diminishes production times, reduces cost and on top of that gives
maximum quality.
The narrow tolerances are
convincing: only 0.05 mm in layer thicknesses from 0.075 mm to
0.15mm. With this and the available 350 mm x 350 mm x 400 mm
work-space of the plant, delicate objects as well as large or
multi-part objects can be produced - e.g. by three-dimensional
jig-saw processes.
Products for the demands
of a modern world.
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