Howest Industrial Design Center with its ProtoLab, presents the fifth edition of the Prototyping Event, unique in its kind in Flanders. Where do prototyping and corporate strategy meet? In several phases of a design process, prototypes give information about functionality, shape, tactility, assembly, etc. They visualize concepts and speed up decision making. Choosing between traditional, additive or virtual techniques and estimating time and budget, are important aspects in a strategic point of view of every company involved in product development, architecture, entertainment etc.

Prototyping Event 2012 offers a mixture of state of the art, home applications, real cases concerning prototyping during a design process, rapid prototyping, additive layer manufacturing, 3D printing and virtual tools. A perfect opportunity to meet numerous distributors, manufacturers and users of various technologies. Speakers from home and abroad bring testimonies from industrial, artistic, architectural and other contexts.

Target group

•Industrial Designers
•Product developers
•R&D managers
•Company management
•Production
•Animation & entertainment
•Artists
•Architects
•Model makers
•Companies lacking experience in prototyping/specific techniques
•Companies with investment plans (software/hardware)

Demos

At the fair, demos of different techniques and technologies can be viewed while a range of machinery is displaying the latest developments on the market.