How We Streamline Product Development Your brilliant idea can't become the next Tickle-Me-Elmo if your product development partners can't bring it to life in time for the holidays. And your new feat of automotive engineering won't have a leg to stand on if you don't muster internal support. To help transform your ideas into reality and speed them to market, MOD offers a range of in-house services and expertise proven to streamline the product development process by weeks or more. Engineering Expertise Prototyping Visualization Setup for communication with design engineers, the MOD Custom OEM Division features a slate of high-tech tools and equipment rarely offered by plastics industry suppliers to the OEM. In the hands of MOD's skilled engineers, these tools become the weapons of war you need to battle the competition. Headed by General Manager Bob Dunne, the MOD engineering team takes your idea by email or fax, evaluates the project possibilities and promptly provides an estimate, often in a matter of hours. Only with 15+ years of rotomolding experience could Bob provide such insight so quickly. And as an attorney and CPA, Bob understands budgets and confidentiality agreements. With your idea in hand, Bob and his staff may offer design enhancements to save you money, speed production and/or deliver a stronger, more durable product. Via advanced SolidWorks 2000 3-d modeling software, these enhancements may be shown directly on the original drawings with surface area and other elements and returned by email, shaving days off of the traditional process. In addition, once you approve the final drawing, Bob and his staff work directly with their tooling manufacturer to cut a pattern directly from the part file, eliminating the time and energy needed for hand-built patterns. With quality tooling demanding 4 to 8 weeks as well as a fair portion of the initial investment, it is critical to be sure your internal support network is in place. To help executives in accounting, finance and other disciplines understand the drama of your project, we apply our 3-d modeling expertise to help develop the visual presentation you may need to keep your project moving forward. With the 360-degree, full color, animated imagery and visual appeal of a NASA video for Congress, our presentations enable you to demonstrate individual parts or complete assemblies in multiple layers - or virtually anything else you need to demonstrate the value of your project. We even tailor multiple versions for project meetings with engineering, marketing and finance personnel. With your final approval secured, we move fast forward to prototyping and then to the initial production run. With our exceptional quality rating (link to QA page), we not only produce high quality parts and products, but we also deliver them on time. We will even work with you to develop a program to meet your just-in-time requirements. And although we've cut at least two weeks off of a typical project while adding a slate of other benefits, we're always looking for new ways to do even better and would be happy to listen to your needs and ideas.