Consulting Services
Helping You Solve Your Biggest Challenges
Bringing an innovative design to life is rarely straightforward. Engineers are often tasked with balancing manufacturability, performance, cost and speed, all while navigating supply chain constraints and evolving materials and processes. They’re also challenged by downsized engineering and procurement staff, which must still move projects to completion faster than ever.
That’s where Fathom’s consulting services make the difference. Our experienced engineers work directly with your team to identify potential pitfalls early, validate design decisions and guide you toward the most effective path from prototype to production.
We can also help you source your parts from our global network of trusted partners, helping you to save money and scale your product launches effectively. Our Edgeworks service gives you access to overseas, hybrid and domestic solutions that can be tailored to your needs.
4 Ways to Leverage Our Expertise
Here are four ways that Fathom can help you develop a tailored solution that meets your product development, production, compliance and quality requirements.
Design for Manufacturability (DFM) & Design Optimization
Our expert engineers will help refine your designs for optimal manufacturability, performance, and cost efficiency. Services include manufacturability reviews, tolerance analysis, lightweighting, material, process selection guidance and much more. We’ll help you avoid costly design and tooling missteps.
Prototyping Strategy & Development Consulting
Our team will help you bridge the concept to production process with a clear prototyping roadmap that includes a design iteration plan, functional testing and validation, digital simulations for optimization and making a smooth transition from prototyping to production.
Material & Process Consulting
We’ll help you select the optimal material and process for your product’s application and scale, recommend value-added finishing processes, help you make the international sourcing vs. domestic manufacturing analysis and testing protocols to ensure product quality.
Manufacturing Scalability & Supply Chain Consulting
Making the offshoring vs. domestic manufacturing decision isn’t easy. There are many factors and tradeoffs to consider. Leverage our deep global sourcing knowledge to make the right decision for your product, including cost modeling and ROI analysis, risk mitigation and redundancy planning, supplier qualification and validation and inventory and logistics strategies tailored to your needs.
Fathom’s White-Glove Service: What Does it Mean to You?
Fathom’s white-glove service is unique in the contract manufacturing world. Most of our competitors rely on AI-driven, automated quoting and basic DFM feedback. When you’re dealing with highly-engineered products, that’s not enough.
Preparing your part design for production is a complex process with many variables. It often involves trade-offs, critical thinking and even a bit of creativity to solve design and production problems up front – before you run into expensive tooling and production problems. Plus there are often part geometry-specific “gotchas” you need to be aware of and solve for.
The most reliable path to consistent project success is with a hands-on, engineering-led approach. That’s the foundation of White Glove Service at Fathom. Our rigorous process ensures every project receives the technical guidance and care it deserves.
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 your projects on track. The result is a more collaborative, transparent process that leads to better products and faster launches.
Why Our Customers Trust Fathom
Human-First Engineering
Decades of Expertise
Integrated Manufacturing & Finishing
Full Product Life-Cycle Support
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Every quote is reviewed by an experienced engineer to ensure optimal design, materials and manufacturability, so your part gets made right, the first time.
