New Molded Tactile Composites Allow Interfaces and Accessory Management to Match the Quality of the Rest of Your Portable System.

Your company has a new portable system, and you are ready to start selling it. But wait up just a minute. There are also Cables; There are Handheld Devices; There are Chargers, Power Supplies and related AC Cords. HOW are you going to help the user manage all this stuff in a way that does not look like an after-thought ?

The physical user interface and accessory management is the last chance you have to make a good and lasting impression to justify the buyer's investment. Development of this interface should begin as soon as the design of the rest of the system does.

The tactile surfaces, carry and handling system is the initial 'face' of the system as far as your users are concerned; The first and last impression made upon the buyer each and every time they use the system. The unpack and packup proceedure is important from the user's perspective. They expect the transport and ease-of-use to match the quality of your system.

There is a new technology which can now help provide that classy look and feel that your customers understandably expect for their substantial investment.

Molded Tactile Composites are a technology most people are used to seeing in the interior of their automobiles; those molded surfaces which are human-friendly to the touch, yet structural. Functional, yet cleanable/aeseptic and pleasant to look at.

A special version of this molding technology has been developed by a small company in California. It combines solid plastics with special textiles in a way which can be molded into 3D components to create molded Device Housings, Backpacks, Carry Cases, Use-in-place Protective Covers, Shoulder Straps, Device Holsters and Cable-management systems.

Moreover, this new technology only requires relatively low-cost tooling (a small fraction of most other processes) which makes this a solution highly suitable for quantities that are typical of low-moderate volume specialty medical products.

The possibilities ? Unmatched in versatility compared to conventional alternatives. This can include the following attributes:

Cleanable/Aseptic textures, or extremely high Abrasion resistance, Impact resistance. Textures which remain grippy even when wet. The ability to achieve 360-degree dramatic undercuts, Rigid structural properties and yet sewing-compatibility (toughness with crack-resistance), Precision-of-fit which can rival injection molding, Living hinges to simplify design and a wide range of textures determined by the materials, not by the mold (mold-independent textures).

The company, GizzMoVest LLC, was founded at the beginning of 2011. In a short span of time they have redefined what a molded component can be. They can impart physical and aesthetic properties to molded components that are actually more advanced than any other molding process.

From the user's perspective this means the carrying and use proceedure can impart a feeling of precision and quality that just cannot be obtained in a conventional cut-and-sew solution. This ensures that the continuity of the perception of your system's value is carried though to the actual use of your system. It shows you thought carefully about the user.

Thoughtfulness is often the defining difference between brands. When a portable system is an investment, users pay close attention to how well their needs are perceived. Those needs start with the comfortable transport of the system and they end with the pack-up procedure and exactly how easy that process seems to be between competing brands.

This is where GizzMoVest's team can really help out. Their designers are also their manufacturing engineers; designing both product and tooling, so they are in a perfect position to take full advantage of their technology to solve any carry and user interface challenge.

Furthermore, manufacturing is under one roof in California (not overseas) so the design and prototyping process is amazingly rapid, yet still producing unique, beautiful, molded and uniquely human-friendly solutions which really stand out and say: 'We thought of you'.

https://gizzmovest.com/GizzMoVest_QuoteRequest.cfm

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Author: Jeffrey D. Krause is a Co-founder of two long-time US manufacturers.

One was listed for 4 years by Deloitte as one of the US’s 500 fastest-growing companies, and was eventually acquired by multinational 'Teledyne'.

The main product, of which Jeffrey was only 1 of 2 people on the Patent, became featured as a minor character in the James Cameron IMAX film ‘Sanctum’.

That same product became at that time, the most widely-publicized case study in the history of ‘SolidWorks’ CAD software.

Founded his first physical manufacturing company at age 22, his current 13-yr-old company has DIRECT clients which include Lockheed-Martin, Teledyne-FLIR and several Medical manufacturers.

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