SERVICES
Prototype Tooling and Consulting
We provide design and consulting services for customers looking to take their concepts from 3D model to a fully functioning prototype that is easy to manufacture and scale-able. Our expertise in manufacturing makes us uniquely qualified to assist customers during the assembly stage of the product development cycle by providing prototype assembly tooling solutions. Our particular fortitude lies with plastic vibration and laser weld tooling as well as support fixtures for sonic and spin welding processes.
Schedule Appointment
All estimates are free and flexible according to materials and scheduling.
About Us
Our vision
We want Good Proto, LLC to one day become a one stop shop for consumers that have an idea, but need help bringing that into reality. We want to help customers all the way from initial CAD models, all the way through fully functioning prototypes and assembly tooling.
It all started when…
I am a mechanical engineer that's been working in manufacturing for the last 7 years since I started out as an manufacturing engineering intern for an automotive supplier in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I joined that very same company straight out of college in 2013 and have been there since.
For the first three and a half years I worked with the assembly lines. Here is where I got my foundation in manufacturing and automation. The company I worked for was relatively small and forced me to wear a lot of hats. I performed tasks like writing operator work instructions, improving machine quality detection, PLC programming, launching new production molds, implementing process improvement, and designed small scale semi-automated work cells.
For the last year and a half I have been working in the prototyping department. I currently still work in this role full time leading a team of two to consistently bring our new product designs from 3D CAD model to real world prototype. In this role I have worked with building 3D printed assemblies, CNC aluminum assemblies for the more rigorous testing circumstances, and all the way up to soft tool assemblies. I have gained valuable experience in molding, assembly tooling design, quality check fixtures and the product development cycle overall. I work with our CNC machinist daily on manufacturing plastic laser weld tooling, vibration weld tooling, testing fixtures, etc.
Here we are today...
In my prototyping role I have discovered that I have a passion for this process and I believe there is a gap in knowledge when it comes to manufacturing these prototypes. I want to help fill that gap for other companies and consumers where an idea for a great design exists, but the understanding of how to manipulate that design so that the manufacturing is feasible and cost effective is lacking.
I am a member at at a co-working space in Chicago known as mHUB. My personal manufacturing resources are limited to a computer I built for 3D modeling and the equipment available at mHUB (https://mhubchicago.com/page/equipment-and-resources).
I have grown very familiar with plastic welding processes and have designed a number of tools for vibration, laser (both quasi and contour), sonic and spin welding.