Why KAIAO is so loved and trusted by customers?

Founded in 1995, KAIAO Rapid Manufacturing Co., Limited is one of the leading rapid prototyping supplier in China, who’s dedicated to provide final solutions for design phase verification of new products, trial production and low volume production of plastic parts etc. What KAIAO is always keep trying to do is to shorten the trial cycle and save development cost for customers.

Over the past 20 years, the company has served numerous customers, and are always praised by customers and wins the trust. So, why KAIAO is so loved and trusted by customers?

“Every mutual cooperation with customers, KAIAO regards it as a self-improvement. We will seriously summarize customers’ needs in every cooperation and optimize our equipment.  We are not only running for the target of improving two to five times of production efficiency or saving 10% to 30% of investment cost, but also provide customers with the best service in every prototype developing. KAIAO’s core talents and masters will participate in the whole developing so as to provide the best plan. In this way, prototypes from KAIAO is laudable whether in economic or production speed.” said Mr. Wood, CEO of KAIAO Rapid Manufacturing Co., Limited, which also explains why KAIAO is loved and trusted by customers.

KAIAO’s Advantages

What rapid prototyping companies usually do is to create the model first and show it to the customers to feel the advantages of the product as well as the product functions and structure. As the leading rapid prototyping manufacture in China, KAIAO is able to provide customers one-step service to impress customers. And KAIAO’s advices, recommendations and suggestions always make customers feel reliable, which somewhat speed up the product production for sale.

We have SLS and DLP from German, SLA rapid prototyping equipment from United States, 3D printer from Stratasys, United States, ten Taiwan imported CNC machining center, vacuum complex, low pressure perfusion. And we are able to do 3D printing, plastic prototypes, metal prototypes, function prototypes, transparent prototypes, high temperature prototypes, auto parts prototypes, kitchen appliances prototypes. Prototype appearance can be painted, electroplated, drawn, silk screen etc.

Types of Prototypes

Handwork and Numerical Control Prototype

According to the means of manufacturing, prototypes are divided into the below two categories:

1.Handwork prototypes: Main workload is finished by hand
2.Numerical control prototypes: prototypes are mainly made by numerical control machine tool and can be divided in to SLA prototyping (rapid prototyping) and CNC prototyping according to the equipment used.

A.SLA Prototyping: Mainly produced by laser rapid prototyping technology.
B.CNC prototyping: Mainly produced by CNC processing center

SLA and CNC Prototype

SLA Rapid Prototyping and CNC Prototyping each has its advantages over the other. SLA rapid prototyping’s advantages are embodied in its rapidity. However, due to the accumulation molding, SLA rapid prototypes are relatively rough. So, you can produce parts if the product has certain requirements on wall thickness.

The advantages of the CNC prototyping are reflected in its very accurate reflection of the information expressed in the drawings, and surface quality of CNC prototypes is high, especially after a complete surface coating and silk screen. Sometimes it is more colored and dazzling than the final product. Therefore, CNC prototype manufacturing becomes the mainstream in the prototype manufacturing industry.

Plastic, Silicone, Metal and Clay figurine prototype

According to the material used in prototyping, there are plastic prototype, silica gel prototype, metal prototype and clay figurine prototype.

1. Plastic Prototype: Its raw materials are plastic, and mainly for plastic products, such as televisions, monitors, telephones and so on.

2. Silicone Prototype: Its raw material is the silicone and is mainly to show the shape of the product design, such as car prototypes, mobile phones, toy prototypes, handicrafts, daily necessities, and so on.

3. Metal Prototype: Mainly use aluminum or magnesium alloy and other metal materials for some high-end products, such as notebook computers, advanced player, MP3 players, CD machines and so on.

4. Clay figurine prototype: mainly for product design and development but was replaced by freeform.

Appearance, Structure and Function Prototype

According to the implementation result, there are appearance prototypes, structure prototypes and function prototypes.

1.Appearance prototypes: to test product design. It requires fine appearance and accurate color. The internal processing is not quite matter.

2.Structure prototypes: to test the rationality of product structure, and has strict requirements for size. Relatively low demand for appearance.

3. Function prototypes: requires the prototype to be the same with real product in appearance, structure and function and can be understood as unlisted products with highest requirements.

Silicone Mold in Rapid Prototyping

When we are doing a small batches of rapid prototypes, around 20-30, we generally use silicone rubber mold and reactive polyurethane materials. Silicone mold can be used for quick, easy and inexpensive low volume production of various plastic parts and paraffin models under negative pressure pouring in room temperature, especially in aerospace, automotive, home appliances, toys prototypes and medical equipment and other fields.

Silicone rubber mould is a relatively popular rapid tooling manufacturing process and is widely used in the rapid manufacturing industry due to its good toughness to make prototypes with complicated structure, fine pattern, no mold inclination and even pouring angle. It has the following advantages:

Easy to demould

In conventional metal molding, it is usually necessary to set the draft angle so that the part can be smoothly removed after forming, especially for parts with deep grooves. In silicone rubber moulding, due to its good flexibility and elasticity, work pieces with complex structure, fine pattern, no draft angle and even deep groove, can be demoulded directly after the casting without additional draft angle, which simplifies mold design as much as possible.

Short production cycle

It only takes a few days or so to do the silicone rubber moulding as requested if the 3D CAD files for the parts are provides, thus use silicone rubber mold to pour out polyurethane plastic prototypes. It saves you 90% of time if compared with the steel moulding for injection prototyping, which takes around 30 to 90 days.

Good replicability

Room temperature vulcanized silicone rubber has excellent simulation and very low shrinkage and can be a good reproduction of the prototype parts on the fine features, and will almost not lose the dimensional accuracy of parts, thus is an excellent mold material.