Three years ago, we launched our First Step program at Hobson & Motzer, our project-based rapid precision prototyping and new product development (NPD) platform. It was a natural progression to the work we had been doing with major medical device OEMs for over a century in precision metal components.
Customers in advanced industries have expressed a need for higher level NPD support: prototyping executed to precision tolerances, and greater metrology depth—providing an opportunity for the part and manufacturing process to evolve simultaneously, yielding valuable data and learning that does not occur when the two processes are separate.
Valuing customer input, we spoke with one very experienced Medical Device Development Engineer currently with a company that has worked with us on multiple NPD projects for different products developed with our First Step team. His feedback inspired this article. When directly quoting him, we will refer to him as “DE.…