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“ My father started the company in 1979, and we’ ve seen a lot of transformation over the years,” Eric says.“ We started out providing engineering services in the 80s and 90s, until my dad connected with some other folks in the industry and developed a product called the Programmable Vehicle Model, or PVM. The PVM was, essentially, an adjustable interior mock-up for studying the ergonomics of the inside of a vehicle, designed so that OEMs could move the property around to different configurations to understand what consumers liked and disliked about their interior cabin environments. It was one of the first products we created and was highly successful; my father sold it to OEMs across the world for well over a decade. However, because they’ ve lasted so long and every OEM has them, there is seldom a need to build multiples each year. We really found the need to diversify at that point, and we started to get more into the building of mock-ups and properties supporting the automotive industry. We started adding new capabilities, including CNC machining and composite layups, and kept expanding from there until we were able to make physical properties, such as instrument panel mock-ups, seating and interior mock-ups, ultimately leading to a full-concept vehicle built from nothing but CAD data.
“ Over the years, we’ ve added many more departments, covering everything from CNC machining to rapid prototyping, interior trim, paint, and lighting, allowing us to build a full vehicle from data in-house. We have low-volume manufacturing capabilities, with an emphasis on paint
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