Designing a dream factory
From parts to products
Fast Radius is a manufacturing service provider that connects brands to factory solutions worldwide for part production. To attract and retain clients, the company asked argodesign to develop a digital workflow that allowed customers to manage design & engineering iterations from start to finished product.
Climbing the value chain
The company hypothesized that creating these tools would enable them to connect with clients earlier in the design process, allowing them to share critical expertise & insights to build better, faster, and cheaper parts and products.
Process over tools
Through research, we quickly realized that customers were less interested in ideation tools & engineering intelligence, and more interested in an integrated platform to coordinate and track production decisions across stakeholders from start to finish.
Coordination across product development
Leveraging these insights, we designed an online tool to organize and orchestrate development activity across products, projects, and orders, enabling cross-functional teams to better collaborate throughout complex workflows.
Manufacturing market domination
Working backwards, we developed an 8-stage release roadmap to help Fast Radius evolve beyond part ordering into new critical product development categories, to deliver innovative client solutions for bringing finished goods to market.
