This episode is Part 1 of a 2-Part series addressing a steel casting producer’s challenge of launching new business… the launch of a customer’s new design.  These two episodes profess the rarely used, but undeniably efficient use of “Immediate Prototyping.”

In the zeal to realize the new business from a new design’s launch, it is tempting to assume a new steel casting is similar to what is done every day… business as usual.  But, business as usual today came with a lot of grief, cost, and delays yesterday, and those difficulties have faded from memory over time.

Instead, tooling up quickly and temporarily for “Immediate Prototypes” with today’s solid model-based technologies enables discovery of all the new casting’s manufacturing issues.  Then, those issues don’t get wrapped up in production tooling that was built too soon and expensive and time-consuming to fix.

The next episode, Webinar 12, explains how existing and emerging Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing technologies enable the “quick” and enable the manufacturing engineering insights that underlie an on-time, cost-effective, new steel casting production launch.