Gurit Prototyping Costs

The two questions most frequently asked by customers who bring new projects to us are:

• 'How much will it cost?'
• 'What will it weigh?'

         
What makes these questions so difficult to answer is that they are most often asked before any engineering has been undertaken, and certainly before the selection of a manufacturing method.  Nonetheless, they are often questions to which even approximate answers need to be provided be-fore a project can be taken by the client even to the conceptual design stage.

To be in a position to provide answers, we first need a certain amount of other information.  Here’s a list of questions, ranked in order of importance:

• What are the overall dimensions?
• What is the surface area?
• What is the finish required to be - inside/outside?
• Does it need to be fire retardant?
• Are there any restrictions or limits of deflection or deformation?
• How is it supported?
• What loads are going to be applied to it?
• Where is it going to be located - indoors or out of doors?
• If out of doors - where, exactly?
• Will it be exposed to any special conditions of temperature, or to any particular chemicals?
• What is it’s planned life?
• Is the item subject to any particular design or other codes of practice, or standards?

                
Given at least some of the above information we are able, based on experience and using in-house software, to provide sensible answers to these two key questions. If you need assistance, contact us.