{"id":8691,"date":"2026-03-26T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartfactory.lt\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:53:07","slug":"speed-up-functional-prototype-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartfactory.lt\/lt\/speed-up-functional-prototype-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed in Engineering: Why Waiting is No Longer the Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every product you own \u2014 from your phone to your chair to your tools \u2014 exists because someone had the courage to move faster.<\/p>\n<p>As engineers, we often accept that it is &#8222;normal&#8221; to wait several weeks for a prototype, but is it truly normal? Or is it just an attitude we have that waiting is &#8222;acceptable&#8221;? The fact is: the technology is already here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83d\udc49 <strong>Multi Jet Fusion (MJF)<\/strong> can produce dozens of functional prototypes in a matter of overnight.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc49 You could put your design in your pocket tomorrow instead of next month!<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc49 Speed is no longer a limitation \u2014 unless we accept it as such.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each day you wait to test, someone else is on to their next iteration. What if the real bottleneck is not the machine&#8230; but the idea that waiting is the only option?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every product you own \u2014 from your phone to your chair to your tools \u2014 exists because someone had the courage to move faster. As engineers, we often accept that it is &#8222;normal&#8221; to wait several weeks for a prototype, but is it truly normal? 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