Prototype

"To prototype or not to prototype..." Advanced technology has created an environment that provides professional prototyping as an affordable option. Harshaw Research has assembled a rapid prototype development team to provide fast, efficient prototype services to our clients. This carefully structured team utilizes cutting edge technology to furnish our clients with the most accurate and timely services possible. Our Concept Design Engineering staff utilizes state of the art CAD systems to create a 3-D database file, which is then used to produce accurate models or prototypes from a wide variety of materials.

There is a vast array of methods available to produce prototypes. Add to this the fact that technology changes daily, and one can easily see that not all prototypes are created equal. At Harshaw Research, we are constantly monitoring and fine tuning every phase of our prototyping process to assure our clients of not just quality you can see, but quality you can't.

Harshaw Research has the experience, expertise, and a professional team to provide prototype requirements when overcoming "Emotional Inertia" is required to expedite commercial investment.

Today’s new product development environment provides numerous opportunities for communicating concepts and ideas. A unique new Phototype® process has been developed to provide a virtual prototype in a three-dimensional graphic format.

In 1800 Gaspard Monge completed a dissertation entitled La Geometrie Descriptive that provided a significant impact on the new product development environment we know today. His writings helped to trigger a shift from physical models to mechanical drawings driving the historical industrial revolution. Over time, manufacturing processes and practices evolved to rely more and more on engineered drawings. Computer-aided tools have emerged and grown in sophistication, providing a new standard in virtual prototyping uniquely presented through the HRI Phototype® process.

The HRI Phototype® provides a leading edge communication tool in the commercialization process. Additionally, animation may be introduced to demonstrate functional utility principles. Should an actual prototype become advisable the HRI Phototype® stereolithography file can provide the foundation for physical prototype production.

The Concept Design Engineering team at Harshaw Research utilizes powerful state of the art Computer Aided Innovation Technology. This unique methodology is comprised of interrelated software modules that enable Harshaw Research to define, optimize, and improve new product ideas and concepts. Access to a large database of engineering and scientific principles, theorems, laws, and phenomena provide the Harshaw Research team with the capability of solving complex engineering contradictions. The results produce the most appropriate inventive principles applicable for a particular or specific innovative problem. In addition, the Harshaw Research team reviews key evolutionary trends of technology and clearly identifies future directions of innovation within the scope of our client's project. This unique methodology provides a powerful mechanism to combine various beneficial engineering subsystems into a single, innovative solution. The pre-eminent goal of these applications is to produce efficient and patentable engineering and manufacturing solutions. This process is universally applicable and can be used effectively in any domain of engineering and technology dealing with materials, substances, and energy fields. Computer Aided Innovation is based on the theory of inventive problem solving which was created by accumulating and generalizing the inventive ideas from the world's patent collection. It has been established that the best inventive ideas comply with a relatively small number of objective principles and rules. Their understanding makes the process of problem solving much more efficient and predicts the development of engineering systems and technological processes. This "World Class Think Tank" puts HRI's clients at the cutting edge of technology, patentability, and market utility.