Professional Prototype Construction – Planning, Design and Development
Prototype construction is a critical stage on the path to turning an entrepreneurial idea into a real product. A prototype is an advanced stage; before it, an initial model must be manufactured that allows testing if the idea works in practice, understanding how it functions, making improvements, and finally reaching serial production with complete confidence. After the model, a good prototype not only proves technological feasibility but also assists in raising investors and presenting the product to potential customers, as well as obtaining regulatory standards and approvals essential for the production stage.
We at Av Tipus company accompany entrepreneurs and companies at all stages of the way – starting from defining the need and problem the product solves, through prototype planning, moving to prototype design, and up to full prototype development. We perform these processes in our mechanical workshop and electronics laboratory, where we have under one roof all the means for building prototypes and models at the highest standards, including the ability to build and manage complex and multidisciplinary projects. All this with professional support, maintaining complete confidentiality, and providing accurate and complete solutions.
Areas of Expertise in Manufacturing and Building a Model or Prototype
Prototype construction is a multidisciplinary process that connects different areas of knowledge to create a working and accurate model. At Av Tipus company, we operate expert teams from a variety of fields, which enables us to tackle even particularly complex ideas and turn them into existing products.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Plastics and metal – manufacturing parts by injection, 3D printing, or machining, in full adaptation to the product’s needs.
- Instrumentation and control – development of smart control systems and modeling components integrated into the product.
- Automation and mechanics – planning precise engineering mechanisms for various applications.
- Electricity and electronics – building electrical circuits and advanced controls in our electronics laboratory.
- Computers and microcomputers – integration of microcontrollers and miniature computing solutions as an integral part of the product.
- Software and applications – development of dedicated applications integrating user experience with technological functionality.
- Hardware – design and construction of custom hardware components.
- Optics – development of optical systems and planning solutions based on light beams and lenses.
The combination between these and additional fields enables us to offer a complete solution – from initial drawing to manufacturing a working prototype, while maintaining accuracy, innovation, and efficiency.
Manufacturing Process and Building a Model or Prototype
The prototype construction process at our company is performed in combination with multidisciplinary teams – from initial planning and design to delivery to the client.
- Product planning and design – At this stage, we implement creative engineering, examine ideas for different concepts, and prepare accurate drawings and production files.
- Electronics laboratory – We develop electrical circuits, and when necessary also the product’s brain: software, electronics, and dedicated applications.
- Mechanical workshop – Here model parts are manufactured using advanced means such as machining, engraving, and 3D printing for manufacturing plastic parts.
- Assembly and testing – Teams integrate all parts, assemble the model, and test its actual operation.
- Multiple prototypes – Sometimes we develop more than one prototype along the way, to make improvements and refine the solution up to the final model.
- Complete production file – At completion, the client receives a detailed production file including all development stages. Additionally, it’s possible to order model duplicates or make improvements and adjustments as needed.
Integrating Applications in the Model
Today, integrating an application with a prototype has become a common solution. We offer development and integration of dedicated applications for product control and operation, including remote activation capability and additional smart features. Such integration enables reducing production costs (for example, giving up physical buttons or expensive operating systems) while simultaneously providing an advanced user experience.
Production File and 3D Printing Services
After completing model construction and the prototype, we provide the client with a complete production file based on all development stages – from the initial planning stage to completion of model construction.
As part of the service, we offer advanced and efficient solutions:
- 3D printing for patents – manufacturing accurate models at high speed, enabling examination of the invention in practice already in the early stages.
- Rapid prototyping for patents and model building – creating a functional prototype quickly, enabling testing, improvements, and presenting the product to investors or clients.
- Sending file for price quote – simple and convenient option to send a digital file and receive a customized price quote for manufacturing plastic parts in a 3D printer, without unnecessary delays.
Prototype Manufacturing in Israel and Abroad
After completing the development stage and completing construction of the final prototype, we move to the practical stage of preparing the product for serial production. At this stage, we develop the tools and facilities required for manufacturing, perform initial series for testing purposes, and complete a detailed production file including all development and manufacturing stages.
This process is accompanied by our close supervision – whether manufacturing is performed in our factory, the client’s factory, or with subcontractors. We coordinate and supervise manufacturing both in Israel and abroad, including factories in Europe, USA, and China, to ensure high quality, accuracy, and full compliance with product requirements.
Manufacturing in China and Protection Against Copying
Many entrepreneurs seek to manufacture in China due to price advantage, but the concern about copying always exists. We offer practical solutions to reduce risk: patent registration also in the manufacturing country, signing confidentiality agreements, splitting manufacturing between several suppliers (circuits, molds, assembly with different parties), and sometimes starting initial production in Israel. These steps enable our clients to enjoy the low costs of manufacturing in China alongside significant protection of intellectual property.
Basic Concept Planning
Before approaching prototype construction or patent application submission, we perform basic concept planning. This stage includes drawings, simulations, and defining possible engineering solutions. The concept enables receiving a more accurate price quote, choosing the development direction, and preparing the necessary basis for the patent attorney for application submission. In fact, this is the stage from which we begin turning an abstract idea into a real product. Sometimes more than one concept is chosen, several patents are submitted, and several models are developed to examine different alternatives and offer several possible products.
Prototype Construction Costs
When examining the issue of prototype construction – price, the process varies according to the complexity and requirements of each project. Prototype construction costs are determined first and foremost according to the model type. For example, a complex prototype including advanced mechanisms, electronics integration, or control systems will naturally cost more than a basic and simple prototype.
Also, the finishing and design level affect the final price: a carefully designed prototype, with a user-friendly appearance, will require higher investment but will provide a much more accurate and convincing result for investors and potential clients. In any case, it’s important to remember that despite the higher investment in building a quality initial model, it saves expensive mistakes later and enables reaching the serial production stage with a consolidated and ready product.
Confidentiality Agreement (NDA)
Preserving the confidentiality of our clients’ ideas is a supreme value and fundamental condition in working with us. Already from the first meeting, we sign with the client a binding confidentiality agreement (NDA), which ensures that all information, documents, or ideas you present will remain completely confidential according to the agreement terms – even if you don’t choose to continue with us in the project.
This way you can share with us freely and without concern, knowing your idea is legally and professionally protected. The first meeting is at no cost, and it’s designed to get to know our team and understand the work process. As an established and veteran company, with an office and permanent professional team, we’re not “intermediaries” or occasional subcontractors – and therefore you can rely on us for reliable and complete preservation of your invention.
Summary – Experience and Knowledge are the Key to Successful Prototype Development
Our company has experience of over 25 years in product and patent development in Israel and worldwide. Over the years, we’ve accompanied hundreds of entrepreneurs and companies, from young startups to international companies, in establishing an initial model that became a successful commercial product.
The combination between different areas of expertise – plastics, metal, software, automation, electronics, and more – gives our clients a significant advantage: a complete solution under one roof, with significant savings in time and costs.
Ultimately, developing a quality prototype is the key to a smooth and safe transition from idea to product. At Av Tipus company, you’ll receive professional and close support from the planning stage to model manufacturing, including support in business development and legal processes as needed.
Want to know how we can help you too turn an idea into a successful product? Contact Av Tipus company today at 03-9711011 or by email info@avtipus.com
Questions and Answers on Prototype
1. What’s correct – developing prototype or developing av tipus?
The standard term in Hebrew is אַב־טִיפּוּס (plural: אבות־טיפוס or אבות־טיפוסים). In English, the term is Prototype.
2. Product design from idea to serial production – when is it right to start?
Usually, it’s possible to start with basic sketches for design already in the early stages, but it’s important to understand that design must also suit the product’s technical requirements. Often entrepreneurs come with ready design, and we’re required to clarify that its implementation will result in high costs or impractical size. Therefore, at our company, the technical team first develops the engineering components (such as printed circuits and mechanical parts), and then the industrial designer joins to create a product combining functionality with external appearance. After manufacturing a designed model and prototype, it’s possible to move to the serial production stage in Israel or abroad.
3. Finding creative boundary-breaking solutions – how is it done?
Sometimes a creative solution is required that will distinguish the product from existing competitors in the market. We hold multidisciplinary brainstorming already from the idea stage, and integrate accumulated knowledge of an expert team with experience of over 30 years. Alongside engineering aspects, our consulting patent attorneys draft registration as broadly as possible – so additional unique elements can be protected and potential competitors blocked. This approach enables us to offer entrepreneurs original, boundary-breaking, and legally defensible solutions.
4. What products were developed at your company – development fields?
Over the years, we’ve developed hundreds of products in a wide variety of fields – from small products for private consumers to complex engineering systems for industry, medicine, and security. Many of the products that came from our hands are successfully sold in Israel and worldwide. It’s possible to see some of the projects on our website, and in a meeting at our office, you can see dozens of additional examples of successful development solutions.
Rapid prototyping is building a model using technological means enabling fast model construction, for example by manufacturing a model using a 3D printer that prints the model and saves machining and engraving costs. At our place, it’s possible to receive a proposal for model building. We have 3D printing machines, and we even designed a 3D printing machine and manufactured it using 3D printing. Call now for a price quote 03-9711011.
Our team is composed of professionals from different fields. We integrate in our work application development and physical model manufacturing. In many cases, it’s possible to operate the model using an application and add remote activation and many other features. It’s possible and advisable to integrate between an application and model if there’s a need. This way development expenses and mass production costs are saved. For example, instead of an operating system on the model, they use an application through a mobile phone and save an operating system and buttons in the model.
There are several stages from the idea stage to the product. We integrate a team from different fields to accompany the inventor and entrepreneur. In the first stage, you need a good idea, then basic concept planning is performed that defines the invention. It’s possible after or in parallel to submit a patent application through our consulting patent attorney. In the next stage, model planning and manufacturing is performed for feasibility testing, and then prototype planning and manufacturing and tools for mass production, molds, etc. In the next stage, it’s possible to start mass production in Israel or abroad, usually in China. But this process sometimes changes according to product and invention type, complexity and simplicity, whether it’s about research or development.
Printing is relatively inexpensive. The printer prints non-complex parts within a few hours. The relatively higher cost is the planning cost. Sometimes part planning is complex. Contact us at 03-9711011 and receive a price quote.
The concern about copying by Chinese manufacturers exists. There are several solutions designed to make it difficult, for example first manufacturing initial series in Israel – a bit more expensive but sometimes worthwhile. Patent and design registration in China – although China isn’t the USA and Europe, but today the most patent applications are submitted in China because that’s where they manufacture in many cases. In our team, there are consulting patent attorneys who during development submit a patent registration application. Manufacturing in China with several factories, for example the software and microcontroller are received from one supplier, the electronic circuit from another supplier, the plastic mold and plastic injections from another manufacturer, assembly can be done with a manufacturer who only deals with assembly in China or in Israel. Sometimes the effort is worthwhile, but in most cases, due to lower cost with one supplier, they manufacture with one supplier and submit a patent application in China. Additionally, they sign confidentiality documents.
In Hebrew developing אַב טִיפּוּס according to the Academy of the Hebrew Language and in plural אבות-טיפוס or אבות-טיפוסים. In English prototype.
First, it’s possible to perform basic sketches for design, but it’s important to note that sometimes designers and entrepreneurs want a certain design that’s technically difficult to execute because the technical parameters are different. Sometimes they approach us after there’s design, but we tell the client that it’s possible to execute the proposed design but costs and product size will be larger and more expensive. Therefore, we integrate in our team a technical development team first that develops the technical components, for example a printed circuit and mechanical parts, and in combination with a designer we offer the client a product combining internal parts and the designed external part. After manufacturing a designed model and prototype, it’s possible to move to serial production in Israel or abroad.
We develop products in simple and complex fields. Sometimes in development, you need to find special solutions that will distinguish the invention and product from other competitors. Our multidisciplinary team performs brainstorming with the client already from the idea stage and finds special and boundary-breaking solutions in many cases. We have a team with experience of more than 30 years from different fields, while integrating patent attorneys for patent rights registration in the inventor’s name. Sometimes there’s more than one way to develop a prototype and product, but in patent registration, it’s possible to include registration on additional details to block potential competitors.
Our office executed hundreds of projects from the idea stage with a team with experience of over 25 years in development, design, and product manufacturing. We’re known as finders of creative solutions from the conceptual stage to product manufacturing by an expert team in many and varied fields. It’s possible to see at our place hundreds of projects with designs for different fields made for private inventors and for leading companies in their fields.
Model planning – In many cases, before final manufacturing, model planning is performed for feasibility testing and technology purposes. Before model manufacturing, we provide the client with drawings for his examination. At this stage, it’s easy to make changes and improvements on the computerized file. Once planning was done on paper, but today we perform computerized 3D planning in a way that illustrates to the client the model that will be built at a later stage. At the planning stage, we also perform basic development of the product’s brain, for example application, electronics, electricity, to perform feasibility testing.
Model construction and manufacturing – After the client’s approval of the planning, our team manufactures and builds the model using a 3D printer if it’s plastic or using other manufacturing means, for example machining such as engraving or CNC. In addition to external hardware, if there’s a brain in the invention, namely electronics, detectors, etc., we manufacture printed circuits and electronic components in the electronics laboratory. Additionally, we integrate in many cases an application for product operation.
Product design – Already in early stages, starting from model planning, we address product design, but in many cases, final product design is performed after model testing. Sometimes during model testing, they find there’s a need to reduce or enlarge, round or square. Industrial design of the product can be finally performed when integrating our development and design people after testing the basic model.
Prototype planning – After product design, it’s possible to move to prototype planning stage, namely prototype is first in series. It will be one-to-one like in the serial product. In many cases, at this stage, you actually need to start dealing also with tools for serial production. For example, if you want to manufacture certain plastic, you need to plan a plastic injection mold, and only after there’s a mold can you inject the first prototype from the desired material. When planning a prototype, production processes must already be addressed after product design, to save production costs. For example, using reinforcements in plastic, namely performing ribbing to save plastic thickness and material in mass production, and also to shorten production time for each unit.
Prototype construction is the final stage. If the final prototype which is first in production series, it’s already possible to move to the industrial mass production stage.
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Our team treats manufacturing in Israel or China. There are advantages compared to disadvantages in manufacturing in Israel compared to China and vice versa. In many cases, entrepreneurs want to save time and move as quickly as possible from development stage to production stage. In Israel, usually time schedules are shorter compared to China. For example, a plastic injection mold that can take about a month in Israel can take about three months in China.
But it’s important to remember that in China, manufacturing cost is much cheaper compared to manufacturing in Israel, and therefore in most cases with products intensive in manual labor, it’s more worthwhile to manufacture in China. But we have clients who prefer to pay more in Israel also for blue-and-white manufacturing reasons, but mainly to preserve technology, especially for example in security and medical products and fields with patents and they want to avoid transferring information to a Chinese manufacturer.
Despite most projects being performed today in China, it’s therefore very important to protect the invention through patent registration in target market countries, for example USA, Europe, and Israel, and also in the manufacturing country, namely China.
Our team can give the entrepreneur a proposal for serial manufacturing both in China and in Israel to examine what’s strategically preferable for the project and entrepreneur. Call now for additional details 03-9711011.
Product development cost and prototype planning and construction process can vary from case to case. There’s no uniform price since the answer to how much it costs to develop a product is what you want to develop. Is it about developing and building a simple prototype like a bowl or a complex product, for example a building escape sleeve from burning buildings that we developed for a company that integrated Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister, in the project.
Development time and development field affect prototype development, planning, and construction cost. For example, if it’s about mechanical development only or combined development with software, for example an application or microcomputer located in a printed circuit. Sometimes there’s prototype construction lasting a few days and sometimes it’s about months of work by several planning and manufacturing people.
In many cases, to give a price quote for later stages, basic concept planning must first be performed. When there’s basic concept planning, it’s possible to give a more accurate proposal for the process. Also, through concept planning, the information is already sufficient for our patent attorney to prepare editing and submit a patent registration application.
Our office developed hundreds of products in many varied fields. In our office, it’s possible to see products that came out in Israel and worldwide. Many of them sold with great success. See product development link for some of the projects we executed. In a meeting at our office, you can see hundreds of products from small products to large and complex systems including manufacturing tools and facilities.
It’s important for inventors and entrepreneurs to be careful to sign a confidentiality agreement before presenting the invention. We sign a confidentiality agreement already at the first meeting. The meeting is at no cost, and confidentiality is preserved according to the confidentiality agreement even if the inventor doesn’t order work from us.
It’s important to sign a confidentiality agreement with a veteran company in the field. Companies and consultants regularly appear and disappear. Even when signing a confidentiality agreement, it’s advisable to come to our office and meet our team. There are many offices that have a nice website but have no office at all and they work with all kinds of subcontractors of subcontractors who disappear.
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Contact now at 03-9711011 for additional details. The introductory meeting is at no cost, and our team will give you a proposal and help you advance the invention and idea in model development and patent registration.