UF’s CED integrates the nation’s best engineering designers with unparalleled small batch manufacturing and testing capabilities to provide new product evaluation and fabrication services while minimizing development costs for our customers.
Start-ups and established businesses that sell tangible products require rapid prototype fabrication, testing, and iteration to advance the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of new ideas with rapid conversion to Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for market. The CED provides the world’s top integrated product design, fabrication, testing, feedback, and optimization process. We are faster and more affordable than any other pathway to getting MVPs to customers. Current job shop fabrication options are expensive, slow, and lack integrated product design feedback or testing. The CED empowers companies to take product ideas from prototype to MVP more rapidly, less expensively, and with superior outcomes than performing this work in-house or outsourcing to a conventional job shop.
Services Offered
- Creative solution ideation for difficult design problems
- Design process improvement
- Product design reviews
- CAD model and drawing reviews
- CAD-to-artifact 3D printing (single part to full assembly)
- CAD-to-artifact metal machining (single part to full assembly)
- Design for Manufacturing consultation
- Design for Manual Assembly consultations (Boothroyd & Dewhurst)
- Standard and customized product testing (IP-XX, fatigue life, temperature)
- Small batch manufacturing runs
Contact
Dr. Matthew J. Traum, CED Associate Director – Consultancy
mtraum@mtraum