Case Study: Hyde Park Partners achieves rapid, low-cost prototyping and faster time-to-market with 3D Systems ProJet MJP 2500 Plus

3D Printing Helps Drive Ingenuity and ROI at Hyde Park Partners

Hyde Park Partners (HPP) and its subsidiary American Engineering Group develop the Firefly off‑grid solar LED lighting system for rural communities. Facing urgent quality-of-life demands and a need to iterate rapidly, their product team struggled with slow, outsourced prototyping and an earlier low‑quality 3D printer that produced poor parts and required messy post‑processing.

HPP replaced those bottlenecks with a 3D Systems ProJet MJP 2500 Plus (and 3D Sprint software and EasyClean post‑processing), enabling true‑to‑CAD, multi‑material prototypes printed and cleaned quickly. The result: prototype turnaround shrank from about 10 days to 1 day, per‑part prototyping cost fell from ~$500 to ~$8, engineering time/cost savings up to ~$9,000 per prototype, faster customer feedback loops, trade‑show‑ready parts, and accelerated product innovation and growth.

Hyde Park Partners

Clifton Vann IV

Chief Executive Officer