Revolutionise Your Production with RAD Additive’s Services
Here at RAD Additive we offer four main services:
Design, Development, Production and Fulfilment.
Because we like to make things happen, we offer an end-to-end service. From initial designs, through to production-ready plans, then into production and fulfilment. Clients join or leave the process at any point, making use of the service, or services, that they need. We always offer clients honest advice, so that they can select the services that are right for them.
The right service for you will vary depending on your sector and your needs. You can read more about who we work with here. Contact us and let’s discuss how we can help.
- Conception
- Consulting
- Modelling/prototyping/scanning
- Iteratively with customer involvement
- Colour/finish selections
- Environmental assessment
- Rapid preparation of a design for manufacture
- Rapid design approval
- Select appropriate materials
- Work to appropriate standards
- Ancillary/holistic design
- Case design for individual or sets of products
- Design for sustainability
- Design for spares replacement
- Plastic extrusion
- Resin printing
- Product individual customisation
- Surface finishing
- Vibro-polishing
- Painting
- Assembly of components to the final product
- Relationship management with external suppliers
- Quality control
- Packaging
- Blister packs
- Boxes
- Packing/shipping
- Amazon and other fulfilment routes
- Design
- Development
- Production
- Fulfilment
- Supplier
- Materials
- Research
- Brainstorming
- Design Review
- Design Advise
Typical Example Products
- Prototypes
- Functional
- Space model
- Design visualisation
- Enclosures and housings for
- Electronics
- Tool boxes/holders
- Jigs
- Fixtures
- Supporting automation
- Tools
- Hand-held
- Grippers
- For lifting objects
- Customised items
- Models
- Parts
- Stock or
- Out of stock
- Reverse engineering
- Marketing merchandise
- Pens
- Key fobs
Advantages of 3D Printing
- Rapid development
- Minimising stockholding/On demand production/Virtual marketplace
- Specialised tools
- Product customisation
- Cost reduction
- Materials
- Time
- Weight reduction compared to injection moulding or machining
- Design flexibility
- Parts that would be practically impossible by other manufacturing processes due to the part complexity
- Reducing part count by merging them together
- New materials are constantly being added
- Hard
- Soft
- Clear
- Heat resistant or flame retardant
