Welcome to Protist

Experts in project management, product development, and prototyping services for multiple industries

About Us

Protist provides you with expertise in project management, product development, and prototyping services. Our goal is to turn your idea into a product as efficiently, and with as low cost as possible, while ensuring success for manufacturability for your volume needs. We partner with you as an extension of your team keeping with your budget and schedule. We have successfully completed projects in mass production consumer goods, complex medical devices, and action sports.

Our Mission

Protist builds a partnership with our clients, delivering personalized and professional services throughout the product development phases. Our expert team brings people's ideas to life through engineering and prototypes.

Our goals

We strive to deliver the best product that can be produced at your current needs and can grow with you. We pride ourselves in providing high quality work with tight deadlines. We strive in helping our customers become successful, because when they succeed is when we succeed.

Product Development

We offer services in almost every phase of product development. Our goal is to help you make your product function well and to also be easy to produce. Below are our main services that we offer.

  • Project Management, whether we are managing our own team, your internal team or outside consultants, our goal is to manage the project efficiently and effectively
  • Conceptual design, starting from just an idea
  • Detailed part design, including CAD, engineering drawings and tolerance analysis
  • Design verification and validation, including design input and output documentation and required testing
  • Design For Manufacturing (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA)
  • Prototypes for proof of concept and production equivalent prototypes to prepare you for tooling
  • Production support; once the product is ready to produce, we can help setup pilot lines and hand off manufacturing to higher volume manufacturing facilities
  • We partner with reputable quality engineers and regulatory professionals, so we can provide full support for medical devie development
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Prototypes

Protist strives to make our clients ideas become reality. Sometimes it takes a fully functional or an aesthetic prototype to confirm form, fit and function of a product. Othertimes, it is necessary to create a prototype close to production equivalent to eliminate tooling risk and schedule delays. We offer several different prototype methods.

  • 3D Printing - FDM, SLA, DMLS and Polyjet
  • Urethane and silicone Casting
  • Aluminum and MUD base injection molding
  • Machining
  • Fully Functional Prototypes
  • Production Equivalent Prototypes
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Products

We design various types of parts, mechanisms and assemblies. Below are some sample products we have worked on.

  • Disposable and reusable medical devices, including filter delivery systems, valve delivery systems, biopsy devices, laprascopic devices, endoscopic devices and other catheter based systems
  • Consumer goods with integrated electronics and firmware
  • Orthopedic braces
  • Devices that are operated via a phone application
  • Manual and automated test fixtures
  • Industries include medical devices, consumer goods and action sports
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Development Phases

We can support you through all phases of product development. See our chart below for our typical phase structure.

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Contact us

  • Additional info

    If you have any questions about our services or a project that you are working on, please email us. We'll get in touch with you as soon as possible, to see how we can partner with you.

  • Our Location

    Arvada, CO

  • Email Us

    Tim@protisteng.com