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Baseball Hitting Aid

Solving a  Problem

 

When Craig's son was batting below average in little league, Craig felt that much of the problem was because his son was taking his eye off the ball.  To solve this problem Craig modified an existing helmet to take away the peripheral vision and forcing the batter to watch the ball make contact with the bat.  Within a few months his son's batting average doubled from .200 to .400! 

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Crude Prototype

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Feeling he had a winner, Craig created a crude homemade prototype and introduced his product to baseball companies in hopes of finding a company to invest in his product.  After a year of frustration, Craig decided having a better prototype would help.  Craig then contracted DCP to assist him with the development of a higher quality physical prototype.

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First Design

 

DCP's first client approved design was a one-piece helmet based around the client's home-made prototype.  However, upon analysis of the completed CAD design, it was determined that the costs to prototype and manufacture this one-piece design would be very expensive.

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Design Refinement & Prototyping

 

After much discussion and brainstorming with Craig we designed and prototyped a version of Craig's training aid that could  attach to existing baseball helmets in seconds and required no tools or hardware and was only a fraction of the cost to prototype and manufacture compared to his original design!  When Craig received the first prototype of his helmet it was near perfect and exceeded everyone's expectations!

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Attracting Investment & Manufacturing

 

Using his high quality prototype Craig was able to secure enough pre-production orders to fund the tooling, setup and manufacturing of his product.   At that point the manufacturer we had connected Craig with based on the requirements of his product tooled up and manufactured his product.

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