1. Elefant Industries
Prototype Parts/Molds
Production Parts/Molds
MARKET DRIVEN & CUSTOMER FOCUSED
Elefant Industries
Business Manager -Jessica Grigg
Charlotte NC
Phone :704-778-5380
Email: Jessica.Grigg@Elefantindustries.com
www.ELEFANTindustries.com

2. WE OFFER:
 PROTOTYPE TOOLS / PARTS
 PRODUCTION TOOLING
 OEM PRODUCTION PARTS AND
FINAL ASSEMBLY
A supplier at work for you
Would reducing production costs 25-75% breathe
new life into a marginal product? If you did not need
to add staff, would that help your bottom line? Do
you need help with new product development?
Elefant Industries provides all of this and more!
 Elefant Industries gives you a guarantee on cost savings
for those components .
 There are no benefits, salaries , or payroll tax to incur.
We act as your staff and strategic partner.
 We have taken over many products from sketch on a
napkin.
 30 day hard tool Prototyping on most parts (from last ap-
proved mold flow analysis) UNHEARD OF IN INDUSTRY!
 Low cost assembly . This removes side assembly lines
and keeps them inline at domestic assembly plants.
 Low cost production tooling. (Cost , volume, and timing
based on cavity and size of parts)
 Project Management Services (over 10 years experience
on launching products from cradle to grave. In the con-
sumer products and Aerospace Industries. )

3. Overview
New ideas are exciting. For engineers, new ideas often translate to new designs and ulti-
mately new products. The journey from concept to market is typically a long road riddled with
hidden obstacles and unforeseen turns. Building a quick prototype of a design can help
smooth that path as well as present some other benefits. This article discusses six reasons to
build a prototype.
1. What Is a Prototype?
A prototype is the first full-scale and usually functional form of a new design.
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2. Why Prototype?
1. Fail early and inexpensively – Real innovation always includes a risk of failure. Thomas
Edison once joked, “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb.” By building a
prototype, you can quickly weed out the approaches that don’t work to focus on the ones that
do.
2. Gather more accurate requirements – Almost half of all project costs are attributed to
rework due to inadequate requirements. Traditional requirements gathering techniques such
as interviews and focus groups can fall short because many people find it difficult to concep-
tualize a product before they see it. By developing a working prototype, you can demonstrate
the functionality to help solidify requirements for the final design.
3. Technically understand the problem – It is unfortunate that system architecture must
come so early in the design process because time only enhances your understanding of the
problems that you may encounter. Have you ever thought, “If I could go back in time, I would
change … ”? By developing a functional prototype, you are forced to address both the fore-
seen and the unforeseen technical challenges of a device’s design. Then, you can apply
those solutions to a more elegant system design when you move to the final deployed solu-
tion.
4. Resolve conflicts – The best engineers have strong opinions about how a given feature
should be implemented. Inevitably, differences of opinion result in conflicts and these con-
flicts can be difficult to resolve because both sides have only opinions, experience, and con-
jecture to refer to as evidence. By taking advantage of a prototyping platform, you can quickly
conduct several different implementations of the feature and benchmark the resulting perfor-
mance to analyze the trade-offs of each approach. This can save time, but it also ensures
that you make the correct design decisions.
5. Rally financial support – In the years since the dot-com bubble burst, investors such as
venture capitalists have grown more risk-adverse when investing in start-ups. Even within
larger companies, internal projects face similar scrutiny from executives looking to maximize
revenue. By developing a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of your idea, you lower the
risk of investment and therefore increase the probability that your idea will be funded.
6. File patents more easily – Before 1880, all inventors had to present working models or
prototypes of their inventions to the patent office as part of the patent application process.
Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office use the “first to invent rule,” which
grants a patent to the first inventor who conceives and reduces the technology or invention to
practice. Though no longer required, a prototype is still the best and safest way to demon-
strate “reduction to practice.” Furthermore, key components of a patent application, such as
patent drawings and the inventor’s logbook, .
7. Early tradeshow samples that function.- Why take the chance of potential customers
breaking the “show sample”. This could leave them with a bad test in their mouth and cancel
and order.
8. Prototypes determine the manufacturing process- Eventually, whether it's you or the
person you manage to sell the idea to, someone is going to have to manufacture your inven-
tion. Prototyping helps you determine what manufacturing processes will be required. Will it
be injection molded, ultrasonically welded or die cut?
Perhaps you even have to determine a new manufacturing technique to build your invention,
but you'd need to know all of this before a manufacturer or a corporation will get on board
with your project.