Case Study: Philips Domestic Appliances achieves faster, more efficient product development with Hubs

Philips Domestic Appliances delivers coffee machine gears in 2 months with Hubs

The customer, Philips Domestic Appliances, required a mix of quick-turn plastic parts and more complex steel-tooled injection molded parts for a pre-development project on their coffee machines. Their challenge was finding a manufacturing partner that could provide both rapid prototypes and handle the complex steel tooling needed for a specific gear component.

Hubs, operating as Protolabs Network, implemented a solution by leveraging its global network of manufacturing partners to produce the complex steel tooling and subsequent gears. This allowed Philips to streamline its product development process, efficiently incorporating both fast prototypes and more complex parts. The result was a more efficient workflow, with the Hubs solution praised for its good pricing and capacity to handle difficult-to-produce components.

Philips Domestic Appliances