Automotive & Mobility

INITIAL FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE AND MOBILITY SECTORS

The automotive and new mobility sectors are facing accelerated development cycles and increased pressure to control costs and deadlines.
With its integrated design office and comprehensive technology portfolio, Initial supports manufacturers and equipment suppliers at every stage, from design to finished product, to ensure faster and more competitive time to market.

COMBINING ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING TO ACCELERATE INNOVATION

For more than 30 years, Initial has been combining product engineering and industrial capacity (3D metal and polymer printing, plastic injection molding, tooling) to meet the challenges of the automotive and mobility sectors:

Product research and design to optimize the technical and economic viability of parts.
Rapid prototyping via additive manufacturing, enabling the validation of complex shapes, designs, and assemblies.
Series production using plastic injection molding or 3D printing, for fast and reliable manufacturing.

TECHNOLOGIES ADAPTED TO AUTOMOTIVE REQUIREMENTS

Our combined expertise guarantees solutions tailored to performance and industrialization needs:

3D polymer and metal printing for custom tools, functional prototypes, and lightweight parts.
Plastic injection molding for controlled volumes and certified series.
Technical finishes to meet the sector’s aesthetic and functional standards.

A TRUSTED PARTNER FOR MOBILITY INDUSTRIALISTS

With an integrated engineering and manufacturing offering, Initial enables manufacturers and equipment suppliers to:

Reduce time-to-market by accelerating the development and validation phases.
Secure the supply chain with flexible solutions, from prototype to series production.
Innovate faster by integrating cutting-edge technologies into their industrial processes.

ANALYSE AND DESIGN

We are equipped with the best software such as Pro/Engineer, CATIA, etc. to deliver exploitable native files:

A team backed by extensive product design expertise in varied fields will assist your personnel to smooth your workload or independently analyse your systems.

We ensure discretion and efficiency to maintain confidentiality.

Our Design Office never misses a chance to use automotive 3D printing internally to speed up its processes.

PROTOTYPES AND PRE-PRODUCTION MODELS

We offer highly diversified equipment to assist you

in developing your parts and sub-assemblies.

Technologies such as Stereolithography, Sintered powder, FDM and

Vacuum Duplication complement each other and allow you to produce:

Style mock-ups
Technical validations
Prototype series.

PREPARE EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS

Functional parts and sub-assemblies will enable you to exhibit new models and new solutions to satisfy your specifications.
Using our finishing workshop you can exhibit elements comparable to serial-production products.

Automotive 3D printing is the ideal solution to present multiple styles and models without enormous investment.

3D SCAN / INSPECTION / REVERSE ENGINEERING

Together with the know-how of a mobile, adaptable team, our high-quality equipment will save you time in defining complex forms or inspecting parts and tools.

3D scanning can save considerable time for competitive benchmarking or to integrate the style of a design mock-up into CAD.

SERIAL PRODUCTION

Thermoplastic injection moulding: our workshop houses the best machines and can produce large or small series of technical parts.

We can inject all types of polymers.
We have an ideal site to develop tools in serial production conditions.

Metal 3D: a technology suited to the customisation of your special production runs.

TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION

Saving weight is the challenge of the future.

Using re-engineering, by applying the requirements of your specifications, we can design your parts using minimum materials.
Combined with additive manufacturing as an advanced production method, topology optimisation enables new minimalist design methods.

Committed to an innovative automotive sector

Initial is part of the European CARA cluster. By joining this ecosystem dedicated to mobility, we are putting our expertise at the service of industrial players to design, prototype, and produce innovative solutions tailored to the challenges facing the sector.