{"id":45865,"date":"2021-02-26T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=45865"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:46:01","slug":"affordable-product-development-services-for-inventors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2021\/02\/affordable-product-development-services-for-inventors.html","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Product Development Services for Inventors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way ahead of the current \u201cmaker\u201d and tech incubator trends, MAKO Design + Invent<\/a> hit the ground running back in 1999 with the mission to enable inventors, startups, and small businesses to take their ideas from concept to store shelves.<\/p>\n

In addition to more than a dozen awards, MAKO recently won the 2020 Red Dot Award, recognition by an eminent panel of judges for distinguished product design, for the design of the ROVER Packhopper, an innovative tool for tennis players.<\/p>\n

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CEO Kevin Mako was still in high school in 1999 when he founded his company that has flourished and grown\u2014without financing or debt\u2014since its inception. The company started in Toronto, but today has U.S. offices in Austin, Miami, and San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Quality Design Modest Price<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAKO must leverage operational efficiencies to a larger degree than most design consultancies to keep its services affordable for its clients. The company offers in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing including strategic marketing, sales, and distribution services.<\/p>\n

Kevin Mako attributes his company\u2019s success and growth to its philosophy of leveraging technology in the most efficient ways possible. \u201cI knew that if we leveraged integrated software tools that are either networked across our offices or based in the cloud, our top talent could achieve the operational and product development efficiencies that would make our services significantly less expensive than conventional design firms and more attractive and affordable to our targeted portion of the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Seamless Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n

To perfect the mechanics from a napkin-sketch concept in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner, MAKO implements the integrated SOLIDWORKS<\/a>\u00ae 3D product development and 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE\u00ae Works<\/a> tools.<\/p>\n

According to Mako, \u201cThe fact that SOLIDWORKS solutions are integrated and work seamlessly with each other is very valuable to us, because it enables us to consistently deliver quality, innovative products faster and at lower cost than previously possible,\u201d stresses Mako.<\/p>\n

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Saving Time, Money, and Rework by 50 Percent<\/strong><\/p>\n

With integrated SOLIDWORKS solutions, MAKO is able to cut both time to market and development costs by 50 percent. Helping clients launch quality products in half the time is critical to nabbing market share and becoming an attractive target for acquisition by large, international manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Quality, however, is not sacrificed as time and money are saved: MAKO has improved quality while reducing prototyping requirements. Since designers can reduce the number of prototypes with digital validation in SOLIDWORKS, prototypes have been reduced from five or six rounds to two or three rounds.<\/p>\n

More recently, SOLIDWORKS Simulation tools have enabled MAKO to improve quality across the board by cutting the incidence of defects and related rework by 50 percent.<\/p>\n

To read the complete case study, click here<\/a>. If you have more questions or would like to see a live demonstration, please\u00a0contact your local reseller<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See how MAKO Design + Invent provides startups and small businesses affordable end-to-end product development services.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":45861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3285,18,63],"tags":[3041,3145,2409,191,3457,19,2254],"class_list":["post-45865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dexperienceworks","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-simulation","tag-3dexperience-works","tag-digital-prototypes","tag-diy","tag-industrial-design","tag-invent","tag-solidworks-2","tag-startups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45865\/revisions\/45910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}