Automotive Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping Driving Automotive Innovation

Wayken’s Automotive Prototyping Technology
At Every Point In Your Process

With more than 20 years of engineering and prototyping expertise, WayKen thrives in technically challenging projects for automotive prototype engineering. We do strive to be your best full service product development partner in the automotive industry. We specialize in a variety of automotive prototyping developments and rapid manufacturing technology, providing CNC machining, 3D printing, vacuum casting, rapid aluminum tooling, low volume injection molding, and sheet metal processing, which maintain a competitive edge with innovative service and highly skilled workforce. We’ll work together – and with you – throughout every step of the automotive design and development process.

From full interior mock-up which include dashboards, consoles, door panels and pillars to exterior components such as bumper, grilles, headlights and taillights lighting prototypes, our team relies on its advanced machining process portfolio, and blending these with surface finishing operations, traditional hand skills, and in-depth know-how to support at all levels for the auto industry.

Our biggest asset is our customer base which has grown rapidly through customer’s word-of-mouth around the world. We are proud and honored to provide comprehensive prototype manufacturing solutions for some of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers and tier one suppliers, such as BMW, Bentley, Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda. Our goal is to exceed customer expectations and help them succeed in the marketplace.

Optical Component Prototypes of Automotive Lighting Lamps

Our proactive and flexible way of working allows us to fully support automotive lighting development projects. From mechanical component design reviews and photometric development engineering test to show car lamps projects, we create ways to develop the best optical component prototypes in the industry ensures us to provide all our clients with the highest level of automotive prototyping services.

The processing of optical details and the finishing of clear polish are key areas and can significantly affect balances vision with usability in all components design. With more continuous improvement technical skills and advanced equipment, we are capable of processing all kinds of outer lens, inner lens, reflector, light pipes, flat guides, and massive guides in any complicated shapes, which require 3, 4, or 5-axis CNC milling, and even the latest diamond machining technology by Single Point Diamond Machining or Turning (SPDM or SPDT). Then finishes can be achieved the best clarity and light transmittance through our specialized polishing process. The final optical samples are ultra accurate, excellent optical quality and free of any marks or scratches.

Functional Prototyping of Automotive Components

As a specialized prototype manufacturer, WayKen has focused on automotive engineering for a long time and gets great reputation on the functional prototypes of mechanical components. We can provide you with satisfying automotive prototypes manufactured with most suitable way no matter for CNC machining, silicone molding or rapid tooling. In general, automotive functional prototypes development covers these three main purposes:

• Using the same material as the final parts, realistically simulate the mechanical function, electric performance, thermal properties of the end use product.
• Creating a more complex prototype of working mechanisms to check form and fit, and ensuring that all parts fit within an assembly.
• Creating high-precision functional prototypes to measure, compare, or check design errors, dimensional differences and tolerances acceptable.

We utilize a wide range of prototyping technologies and engineering-grade materials combined with traditional hand skills to create accurate and detailed functional prototypes for automotive industry. You'll get professional advice that best suits your needs, whether it is in testing functions and assemblies, or ensuring the feasibility of project manufacturing. This will help to get superior performance data in your rigorous testing scenarios and help prove and perfect your design.

Rapid Injection Molding for Low-volume Production in Automotive Industry

Rapid injection molding provides a better choice for those carmakers and their suppliers needing low volume molded parts. It can not only manufacture hundreds of production-grade plastic parts for verification test close to the final product, but also provide on-demand production of end-use parts for low-volume manufacturing.

At WayKen, we design the rapid solution for automotive development project to bring your product to the final test validation phase. We has years of experience in rapid molds of both aluminum and steel and plastic injection molding, and can rush parts to you on a schedule that supports your entire engineering testing and pre-production schedule. We apply unsurpassed level of expertise to provide cost-effective and rationalized advice from designs, materials, production processes, manufacturability, and predict potential problems to help tackle your engineering difficulties.

Our proprietary process and experienced team focusing on your project enables us to bust the standard industry lead time for tooling and molding. There is no need to compromise and limit your design to our process, because we have the equipment, capability, and knowledge to deliver quality and repeatability on every part.

WayKen Automotive Prototyping Applications