Why do companies need to make prototypes? What’s the point of making prototypes?

Usually, newly developed or designed products require prototypes. Prototyping is a step to verify the feasibility of the product. It is a direct and effective method to find out the defects, shortcomings and shortcomings of the designed product, so as to improve the defects in a targeted manner until the deficiencies cannot be found from individual prototype samples. Until now, it has usually been necessary to conduct a small trial production and then find out the shortcomings of the batch. Generally speaking, the finished product is not perfect or even usable. Once any defects occur in direct production, all products will be scrapped, which will be a huge waste of manpower, material resources and time. Prototypes generally consist of a small number of samples, with short production cycles and lack of manpower and material resources.
A prototype is one or more functional templates made based on product appearance drawings or structural drawings, used to check the rationality of appearance or structure without opening the mold. Shouban is also called Shouban in different places.

Simply put, it is to reduce losses. When a product is about to be put into production after the design is completed, the design of the product cannot be perfect, and there will always be some shortcomings and loopholes. Only after many improvements can the product's qualifications be guaranteed. Then, if the product is put into production after the design is completed, there will be many defective products and waste products during the production process, and defective products with fatal defects will also become waste products, causing great losses to the enterprise. Prototype production can greatly reduce the occurrence of this kind of thing.