Speed in Engineering: Why Waiting is No Longer the Norm

Every product you own — from your phone to your chair to your tools — exists because someone had the courage to move faster.

As engineers, we often accept that it is “normal” to wait several weeks for a prototype, but is it truly normal? Or is it just an attitude we have that waiting is “acceptable”? The fact is: the technology is already here.

  • 👉 Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) can produce dozens of functional prototypes in a matter of overnight.
  • 👉 You could put your design in your pocket tomorrow instead of next month!
  • 👉 Speed is no longer a limitation — unless we accept it as such.

Each day you wait to test, someone else is on to their next iteration. What if the real bottleneck is not the machine… but the idea that waiting is the only option?