3d printing
7 Reasons to Prototype with Zaic Design
Ordering 3D prints and CNC machined parts has become as easy as clicking a few buttons and uploading your STL files. Why use a local prototyping shop like Zaic Design? 1.Confidentiality: When you are designing components for a new product, you need to trust that your drawings will not be Read more…
Automation
Collaborative Robot Integration
A few years ago, Zaic Design teamed up with Enterprise Color Solutions to deliver a turnkey automation system to one of our clients. Here is a brief summary of that project. Case Study: Problem: >20,000 measurement data points needed for a new research and development effort. Each measurement required a Read more…
Design
SpectraVision V: Designing Around Gravity
Last year we received a series of fixture design requests centered around one user question: How to hold small slippery objects in mid-air for color measurement. While investigating this design task one fact was immediately obvious: A loosely held object could slip and fall directly into the measurement chamber of Read more…
Design
Magazine Layout that Keeps Readers Hooked
When we first received the call to design a magazine targeted at the Textile and Apparel industry, we were intimidated. Our client wanted to break away from their usual corporate design language and move toward a more flashy and playful aesthetic. As the world leader in color measurement science, Datacolor Read more…
Design
The Challenges of Enclosure Design
Recently a talented designer friend of ours lamented that he has “spent years just designing boxes for things”. As simple and mundane as that sounds, each enclosure project poses unique challenges for product designers. Teams developing benchtop instruments or electronic appliances of course want something that will set them apart Read more…
Design
Spyder 5: Mechanical Engineering
We joined the Spyder5 project after the original industrial design company dropped the project midway through. The task in front of us was to fit a newly developed optical module into a housing design that had been worked over for months with the industrial design firm and already had buy-in Read more…
Design
DC200: Enclosure Design and Mechanical Engineering
We were contacted about this project while in the middle of a move from Yunnan, China, to Tokyo, Japan. This would be the first of several projects that made us realize the need to invest in prototyping machines to minimize downtime. We flew to New Jersey for a project kickoff Read more…
