The prototype worked. Now make a thousand.
The jump from one good part to reliable production is where most products die. It's also where our 30 years count the most — tooling design, supplier vetting, and production launch, managed by the same people who engineered your part.
How we take you to production
- Production in-house — from dozens of parts up to runs in the thousands, all without tooling costs. Perfect for market testing, early orders, and products whose volumes never justify a mold.
- Tooling design — when volume justifies it, we design the injection-mold tooling your part needs, engineered around the part we already know inside out.
- Supplier coordination — we quote, vet, and manage manufacturing partners, and we speak their language, so you don't pay the "new guy" premium.
- Production launch — first-article inspection and quality checks so part #1,000 matches part #1.
What short-run production looks like in-house
From a few dozen parts up to runs in the thousands, parts are produced right here in South Bend on the same equipment that prototyped them — in end-use materials like PETG, ASA, and carbon-fiber nylon (see the materials rundown). No tooling bill, no minimum-order hostage math: you order what the market has actually asked you for, and reorder when it asks again. Alongside product runs we build the jigs and fixtures that keep assembly consistent as your volume grows.
One partner, no handoff gaps
When a design firm hands your product to a separate factory, every problem becomes somebody else's fault. Here the engineer who modeled your part is the one coordinating its production — so when a question comes up, the answer is one phone call away and the accountability never moves.
Honest advice about volume
Sometimes tooling is the right call. Sometimes printing 200 parts on demand beats a $15,000 mold. We'll show you the actual math for your product and recommend what's cheapest for you — because our business is the long relationship, not the biggest invoice.
Manufacturing questions, answered
Do you do injection molding in South Bend?
We design injection-mold tooling in-house and coordinate molding through vetted manufacturing partners, managing quoting, quality, and launch so you deal with one local engineer instead of a factory. For smaller quantities we produce parts in-house without any tooling cost.
What production quantities do you handle?
In-house we run anywhere from dozens to thousands of parts — market tests, early orders, and full production runs, all without tooling costs. When a mold becomes the cheaper path at your volume, we design the tooling and manage production partners to scale beyond that.
Is 3D printing or injection molding cheaper for my part?
It depends on volume. Sometimes printing 200 parts on demand beats paying $15,000 for a mold; sometimes tooling wins clearly. We show you the actual math for your product and recommend whichever is cheapest for you.
My product is already designed — can you just handle manufacturing?
Yes. We review the design for manufacturability, flag anything that will cause problems in production, then run short runs in-house or set up tooling and suppliers for volume.