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Want to estimate the cost on your own?
We’ll share the same pricing methodology used by manufacturing companies.
The point is this: a table where we’ve collected data from 15 real plastic enclosures for electronic devices.
You will be able to:
- Roughly estimate how much “a plastic enclosure like this” would cost — similar to yours.
- Understand how much time is required for design and production.
- Compare unit cost at different volumes — from 1 to 200,000 units.
- Get a high-level view of the total budget required.
How much should I budget for mockups and prototyping? What timelines should I expect?
If you want to understand how much a mockup or prototype will cost, the first step is to choose the manufacturing technology.
For example, producing a mockup using FDM 3D printing can take just a few hours (for a small device) and cost a few thousand rubles. A prototype made by polyurethane casting in silicone molds, on the other hand, typically costs tens of thousands of rubles and takes several days to produce.
Manufacturing a prototype from reinforced glass-filled polyamide costs about $5,000.
Below are examples of serial production costs. Choose the category you’re interested in.
For example, producing a mockup using FDM 3D printing can take just a few hours (for a small device) and cost a few thousand rubles. A prototype made by polyurethane casting in silicone molds, on the other hand, typically costs tens of thousands of rubles and takes several days to produce.
Manufacturing a prototype from reinforced glass-filled polyamide costs about $5,000.
Below are examples of serial production costs. Choose the category you’re interested in.
Small-batch production
II. Plastic parts manufacturing
III. Plastic enclosure manufacturing
IV. Sheet metal enclosure manufacturing
V. Metal enclosure manufacturing using die casting
VI. Aluminum parts manufacturing by extrusion
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Download free Enclosure Design Guide
Practical guide to designing enclosures for electronics hardware. Based on 15+ years of experience and 200+ completed projects.
What's inside:
- 4 manufacturing methods compared
- Common design mistakes to avoid
- Cost estimation framework
- Real project examples
What's inside:
- 4 manufacturing methods compared
- Common design mistakes to avoid
- Cost estimation framework
- Real project examples
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FAQ
You can stop the progress of work and return the remaining unspent funds. All the results of the work accepted by this moment will remain yours, and a link to the archive with them will be added to the chat.
Each stage is estimated before it starts, the cost is agreed with you in advance
. Money is deposited to the service deposit and deducted from it weekly, in accordance with the volume of work performed. You will receive a report on each write-off. You can stop work at any time and return the balance from the deposit.
We work only through EDI in accordance with the laws of the client's country through the Docusign service. There are no physical copies of documents. Payment can be in dollars, euros and yuan. Start a chat if you need our details.
No, you need a company or an individual entrepreneur, this is due to the transferable rights to the result of the work.
Yes, not a problem, although the delivery of prototypes may take time.
You really need just a factory, not us. But you can write to us, and we will send links to those with whom we work to speed up your search.
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During the project, intellectual rights arise for the result of the work - design, documentation, industrial design, and so on. You will receive exclusive rights to all results approved by you. The service reserves the right to use the results for its own advertising on the Internet, when participating in exhibitions and any other marketing activities. However, the service does not have the right to release or modify your product.
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I’m Andrey Vostrikov, an industrial designer with over 15 years of hands-on experience.
Let’s discuss your task — how to solve project challenges and find the most practical solution. I work with real numbers and facts. Formlab has designed enclosures for a wide range of products, and over the years we’ve built a solid knowledge base on timelines, costs, manufacturing methods, factories, and technologies.
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