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Engineering & Design Support

Leverage our deep engineering expertise and white-glove support from prototype to production to bring your new products to market faster.
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Why Human-First Engineering is a Must

When you partner with an outside firm to have parts manufactured, top-notch engineering is a critical requirement. There are many variables involved in producing affordable parts that are consistently high quality, including:

  • Part design
  • Manufacturing method
  • Material selection
  • Manufacturability
  • Geometry-specific issues
  • Advanced prototyping
  • Designing efficient production processes.

Many of these variables require human judgment, critical thinking and creativity to arrive at an optimal solution.

Letting an algorithm make these choices and trade-offs is risky. It can lead to part quality problems, cost overruns and endless delays. And that can negatively impact your reputation as a supplier to YOUR customers.

5 Ways to Leverage Our Expertise

Here are five ways that the Fathom engineering and design team can support you during your product development and production processes:

Additive Manufacturing Expertise

Fathom provides extensive know-how to help their customers optimize the part designs and material selections to improve manufacturability, save money and improve part quality. We can help you identify and solve roblems that DFM algorithms tend to miss.

Design For Manufacturing (DFM) Guidance

Fathom’s in-house production capabilities are paired with a large network of equally skilled in-house specialists. Depend on our knowledge and resources to inform key design decisions—especially manufacturing nuances for your part’s unique geometry.

Mechanical Concept Development

Fathom offers creative yet simple design solutions to meet your product’s functional goals with the best production processes for each stage of development.

Advanced Prototyping

Work with Fathom to build a prototype to ensure your part is designed with final production in mind, including expedited prototyping with on-site manufacturing services for fast turnarounds on parts and production of functional, aesthetic or fully-integrated prototypes

Production Support

Anyone can build a prototype part. Engineering a product so it can be mass-produced requires a different set of skills. Fathom’s engineering staff can help you improve the manufacturability of your parts, ensuring that they can be made cost-effectively.

What Does White-Glove Service Mean?

Fathom’s white-glove service means unwavering attention to quality, speed, and detail at every step of the process. We go beyond what other contract manufacturers offer by taking a customer-centric approach that ensures every project receives the technical guidance and care it deserves.

Most importantly, we make sure every component meets the highest standards of precision and performance, so our customers can count on every part we deliver.

Our engineering and design team works closely with customers from concept through production, helping to refine designs, select the right materials, and identify the most efficient manufacturing methods. With decades of hands-on experience across additive manufacturing, injection molding, CNC machining, and sheet metal fabrication, we anticipate challenges early and provide practical solutions that keep projects on track.

The result is a more collaborative, transparent process that leads to better products and faster launches.

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Fathom is Your Product Lifecycle Partner

From early concepts and prototypes to bridge and low-volume production, we’ve got you covered.

Early Concept

We’ll perform a Design for Manufacturability (DFM) analysis to help you optimize your part design for production. Our expert engineers will also identify opportunities for cost reduction in part design, tooling and the proposed production process. Our ultimate goal? To eliminate potential production problems early in your design process.

Rapid Prototyping

Quickly iterate and finalize part designs using our on-demand manufacturing services. Rapid prototyping services employ digital manufacturing methods. They enable designs to move directly from a CAD drawing to a finished plastic or metal part in a matter of hours or days – without the need for tooling. Rapid prototyping can help you bring products to market faster.

Bridge Production

Bridge production can help you solve a number of common problems, including side-stepping tooling delays, meeting regulatory requirements and conducting market research if you’re unsure of demand for your new product. Producing a small quantity of parts enables you to preview a new product to a select audience and make tweaks before you ramp up to full production.

Small-Medium Volume Production

Many third-party manufacturers prefer to avoid low-volume production in favor of long production runs of relatively simple geometries. We specialize in low-volume/high-mix projects. We’re very good at it! Bridge production also makes sense when you’re moving tooling from overseas to domestic production, so you can keep your production line running smoothly.

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Why Our Customers Trust Fathom

Human-First Engineering
Our expert engineers will help you optimize your part designs for production.
Decades of Expertise
Our engineering and production teams bring decades of expertise and problem-solving to every project.
Integrated Manufacturing & Finishing
We offer manufacturing and full post-processing capabilities under one roof for one point of accountability.
Full Product Life-Cycle Support
We’re your partner from design and prototyping to bridge and full production.

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Expect More From Contract Manufacturing

It’s time to level up your expectations. Contract manufacturing should be much more than an automated quote and superficial DFM feedback. Experience the Fathom white-glove difference – an engineering and expertise-driven process that will guide you from concept to production with clarity, confidence, and zero guesswork.

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